Jill G. de Villiers
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jill G. de Villiers plays a role.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1467 | E-ISSN 1569-965X
2019 Parsing, pragmatics, and representation: Children’s comprehension of two-clause questions 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. 85–105 | Chapter
How do young children comprehend wh-questions from two-clause sentences? Is it via parsing heuristics like first resort, or different grammars, or the question-under-discussion? Fifty preschool children and twenty-three adults gave answers to nine adjunct wh-questions from sentences with false… read more
2018 Chapter 10. Perspectives on truth: The case of language and false belief reasoning Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 221–245 | Chapter
Many theorists take language – vocabulary, mental verbs, syntax, counterfactuals, discourse – to be a significant help in the development of explicit Theory of Mind. Does conversation, with all its point-of-view indicators, betray another’s perspective? By comparing how different linguistic markers… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Evidentiality, questions and the reflection principle in Tibetan: What do children learn when they learn about evidentiality? Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ketrez, F. Nihan, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek (eds.), pp. 113–132 | Chapter
Evidentials fall in the borderland between traditional semantics and pragmatics. A situation semantics for evidentials helps to explain their puzzling developmental pathway in children. Drawing on our work in Tibetan, we argue that there is no necessity for a child to master Theory of Mind, that… read more
2001 Continuity and modularity in language acquisition and research Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen (eds.), pp. 1–64 | Article