Pim Mak
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pim Mak plays a role.
2022 Macrostructure in the narratives of Indonesian-Dutch bilinguals: Relation to age and exposure Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 540–570 | Article
There is no agreement regarding the relationship between narrative abilities in the two languages of a bilingual child. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that such cross-language relationships depend on age and language exposure by studying the narrative skills of 32 Indonesian-Dutch… read more
2020 Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals: Evidence from eye-tracking Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax, Torrens, Vincent (ed.), pp. 153–174 | Chapter
This paper investigates the processing of pronoun gender by bilingual children. Prior research shows that Dutch–Russian bilinguals below age 7 often make gender agreement errors in Russian anaphoric pronouns, whereas monolingual children are target-like by age 4. This paper aims to establish… read more
2010 Daardoor Dus! Effecten van Specificiteit en Subjectiviteit op de Verwerking van Connectieven: Een- of Twee Talig. Het Voorbeeld van Twee Urgentieopleidingen Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 84/85, pp. 103–112 | Article
The connectives daardoor (as a result) and dus (so) can both mark forward causality in Dutch. However, they differ in specificity and subjectivity. Daardoor gives the reader a very specific instruction, since it can only mark objective cause/effect relations. Dus can not only mark subjective… read more
2008 Effects of the Dutch Causal Connectives 'Dus' and 'Daardoor' on Discourse Processing Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 79, pp. 53–63 | Article
Linguists have distinguished between various types of causal relations. For instance, Pander Maat & Sanders (2000; 2001) distinguish between different kinds of causal relations: objective and subjective causal relations. A connective provides explicit processing instructions on how the first… read more