A. Schouwenaars
List of John Benjamins publications in which A. Schouwenaars is involved.
Articles
2026 Thematic role interpretation and morphosyntactic transfer in Dutch-speaking children using pseudowords Linguistics in the Netherlands 2026, Knooihuizen, Remco, Marloes Oomen and Alex Reuneker (eds.) | Article
This study examined how first-language knowledge influences children’s comprehension of morphosyntactic cues for thematic role assignment. Twenty Dutch-speaking children (aged 10;0–12;0) completed a picture-selection task testing their interpretation of subject- and object-initial sentences… read more
2025 Preschoolers’ word prediction in active and passive sentences: An eye‑tracking study Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 491–507 | Article
Predicting upcoming words in a sentence is important in sentence processing. Previous research has shown that children’s vocabulary size and language production skills influence prediction speed. This study investigates whether syntactic complexity affects predictive processing using… read more