Petra Schulz

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

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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
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 acquisitionSemantics 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
Müller, Anja, Petra Schulz and Barbara Höhle 2011 Pragmatic children: How German children interpret sentences with and without the focus particle onlyExperimental 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