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The Interaction of Case, Word Order and Prominence. Language Production and Comprehension in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
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Cross-linguistic variation in differential subject marking
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Masculine generic pronouns: Investigating the processing of an unintended gender cue
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228989.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Grammatically masculine words are often used when talking about people in general. In Dutch you would say that everyone was eating his lunch (‘iedereen was zijn lunch aan het eten’), even if the group consisted of men as well as women. This use of masculine words for generic reference was at the core of this dissertation. A series of experiments tested if Dutch masculine pronouns such as zijn ‘his’ and hij ‘he’ lead to a male bias during reading, even though they are intended to be interpreted generically. In other words, do we think of the group of people eating their lunch as predominantly male? Three eye-tracking experiments and one sentence evaluation experiment tested if the possessive pronoun zijn ‘his’ lead to a male bias. The results showed that men often experience a male bias, but women do not. A self-paced reading experiment testing generically-intended hij ‘he’ revealed a male bias for both women and men. These five experiments taken together show that the generic or “gender-neutral” use of masculine pronouns often makes only men visible and excludes others. A sixth experiment sheds light on a different context in which zijn ‘his’ is used to refer to women. The pronoun can be used to refer to women beyond generic contexts in the Limburgian dialect spoken in the Netherlands. For example, a sentence such as Mary is eating his lunch can mean that Mary is eating her own lunch in Limburgian. An acceptability judgement task showed that this interpretation is indeed possible in Limburgian, but not in Dutch.Radboud University, 21 januari 2021Promotor : Hoop, H. de Co-promotores : Swart, P.J.F. de, Frank, S.L.241 p
The semantics of P in prepositional predicates: An investigation using corpus, cross-linguistic, and diachronic data
No full textLiterature on prepositional predicates often describes how the preposition in such constructions has undergone semantic bleaching—it does not express any spatiotemporal information, but marks a grammatical object. The choice of preposition is thought to be arbitrary; this thesis questions whether that is accurate. Three studies explore the relationship between preposition and verb, aiming to shed more light on the semantic value of the preposition in such constructions. First, modern corpus data were analysed using Latent Semantic Analysis. Second, Dutch predicates were compared to their English and German counterparts. Finally, diachronic data was used to investigate the evolution of a smaller subset of predicates. Claims that the preposition is truly meaningless are proven untrue, as are statements on the idiosyncratic nature of the choice of a preposition. Prepositions are selected based on the semantics of both the verb and (a metaphorical interpretation of) that preposition
The polarization-dependent relation between radar backscatter from the ocean surface and surface wind vector at frequencies between 1 and 18 GHz
No full textFrom Relevance and Deceit to Understanding and Decision Making, what are the effects? A study looking at the effects of Visual Representations and Topic Relevance on Understanding and Decision Making.
No full textThis study looked at the effect of Topic Relevance in a high and low condition, and Visual Representations in a controlled and distorted condition, on Understanding and Decision Making. Six hypotheses were created to test for effects.
This study conducted an experiment in the form of a questionnaire available to people living in the Netherlands. The questionnaire asked participants in a fictive setting to make a decision on whether the government should reopen non-essential stores in the Netherlands during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The results showed non-significant effects on all conditions. This study suggested that Topic Relevance is observed by people. Manipulation checks were used to find out if Topic Relevance made a difference to people and this was confirmed with a good Cronbach’s Alpha. This study in its questionnaire failed to find significant results on this matter
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