Petra Schulz

orcid.org/0000-0002-6765-6659

List of John Benjamins publications for which Petra Schulz plays a role.

Yearbook

Annual Review of Language Acquisition (ARLA)

Edited by Clara Levelt, Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

ISSN 1568-1467 | E-ISSN 1569-965X

Book series

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (LALD)

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova and Lydia White

ISSN 0925-0123

Articles (6) | Order by:

Schulz, Petra 2022 Heterogeneity in bilingualism and autism: Two of a kind? Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism, Flores, Cristina and Neal Snape (eds.), pp. 76–81 | Commentary

Grimm, Angela and Petra Schulz 2021 Phonology and sentential semantics: Markers of SLI in bilingual children at age 6? Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe, Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (eds.), pp. 263–300 | Chapter

The aim of this study is to investigate phonology (via consonant clusters) and sentential semantics (via exhaustivity in wh-questions) regarding their potential to characterize SLI in the context of bilingual acquisition. Using the German LITMUS-QU-NWR task and the exhaustivity task, the… read more

Weicker, Merle and Petra Schulz 2019 Red train, big train, broken train: Semantic aspects of adjectives in child language Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 203–221 | Chapter

This paper investigates the role of formal semantic properties in the acquisition of adjectives. Based on these semantic properties we propose an implicational Semantic Feature Hierarchy, which postulates that the order of emergence is determined by the adjectives’ semantic complexity. To test this… read more

Schulz, Petra 2018 Chapter 6. Telicity in typical and impaired acquisition Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 123–150 | Chapter

This chapter discusses children’s knowledge of the syntactic-semantic interface of different types of telicity in typical and impaired acquisition. It maintains that telicity can be semantic or pragmatic, depending on whether event completion is entailed or implicated. It further delineates the… read more

Schulz, Petra 2012 Why and how individual differences matter for linguistic theory and experimental research but not for UG Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska, pp. 298–303 | Commentary

Müller, Anja, Petra Schulz and Barbara Höhle 2011 Pragmatic children: How German children interpret sentences with and without the focus particle only Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Meibauer, Jörg and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 79–100 | Article

Our study investigated the abilities of 6-year-old German-speaking children to interpret sentences with and without the focus particle nur (only). We report two experiments: In Experiment 1 the study by Paterson et al. (2003) on English was replicated in German. We found that German-speaking… read more