• The Dative Alternation in Norwegian Child Language 

      Anderssen, Merete; Fikkert, Paula; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Rodina, Yulia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Research has shown that givenness is one of several factors that influence the choice of word order with the Dative Alternation in languages such as English. This paper investigates to what extent Norwegian children between the ages of 4;2 and 6;0 are sensitive to this factor in production. In order to test this, an experiment was carried out in which the children were prompted to produce structures ...
    • Robustness of the rule-learning effect in 7-month-old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999) 

      Geambașu, Andreea; Spit, Sybren; van Renswoude, Daan; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T.; Fikkert, Paula; Hunnius, Sabine; Junge, Caroline C.M.M.; Verhagen, Josje; Visser, Ingmar; Wijnen, Frank; Levelt, Clara C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)
      We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7-month-old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previously present in the exposure phase. This work became the foundation for the theoretical framework by which we assume that infants are able to learn abstract representations ...