Marja van Helden-Lankhaar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marja van Helden-Lankhaar plays a role.

Articles

Helden-Lankhaar, Marja van 2001 A connection in lexical development: Innovative compounds and coordinate relations Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen (eds.), pp. 157–190 | Article

The relationship is examined between two different domains of lexical development: innovative compounding and access to abstract lexical relations. The creation of novel compounds as appropriate labels for novel concepts requires the accessibility of relatively abstract relations between word… read more

Helden-Lankhaar, Marja van 1995 Lexicale Innovaties: Het Gebruik van Nieuwe Samenstellingen bij het Benoemen van Nieuwe Concepten Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 53, pp. 39–48 | Article

There is considerable evidence that young children often use novel compounds to label salient instances in familiar categories, spontaneously as well as in experimental settings. Although examples appear in the literature of innovative labels for categories which are unfamiliar or completely new to… read more