Joris Wolterbeek
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joris Wolterbeek plays a role.
Article
2017 Learning to suspend implicated contrast: The acquisition of ook in Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2017, Lestrade, Sander and Bert Le Bruyn (eds.), pp. 143–155 | Article
Children acquire the meaning of ook ‘also’ in Dutch relatively late (Bergsma 2006), although this focus particle is highly frequent. We argue that this late acquisition is caused by a pragmatic rule: contrastive implicature. We follow Sæbø (2004), who argues that additives are used because… read more