Listeners interpret cues in speech processing immediately rather than waiting until the end
of a sentence. In particular, prosodic cues in auditory speech processing can aid listeners in …

According to recent views of L2-sentence processing, L2-speakers do not predict upcoming
information to the same extent as do native speakers. To investigate L2-speakers' predictive …

The research reported here investigates the interplay of the overt focus operators only and
also with contrastive intonation. Our experiment consisted of two parts: a naturalness rating …

Prosody signals important aspects of meaning, and hence, is crucial for language
comprehension and learning, yet remains under-investigated in second-language (L2) …

According to Rooth''alternative semantics (Rooth, 1985, 1992), focus evokes a set of
alternatives and that focus particles make reference to this set. The present thesis examines …

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-
scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical …

Migration is an event of all time. In the 1960s, the Dutch government was in need of foreign
laborers and invited Turks and Moroccans together with their families to come to the …

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have become a standard method in many areas of
cognitive research, including second-language research, over the last decade and a half …

This study examines whether heritage speakers of Turkish in the Netherlands interpret focus
in written Dutch sentences differently from L1 speakers of Dutch (controls). Where most …

To what extent, and under which circumstances, is it possible to reach the same level as a
native speaker when learning a second language? This dissertation addresses some …