Saskia van den Akker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Saskia van den Akker plays a role.

Article

Akker, Saskia van den, John Hoeks, Jennifer K. Spenader and Petra Hendriks 2012 Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type?Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012, Elenbaas, Marion and Suzanne Aalberse (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years… read more