My project is about the acquisition of nominal ellipsis in Dutch, French and Spanish. Special focus will be given to ER pronouns in Dutch and EN pronouns in French. More information will follow shortly.  

Supervision: prof.dr. Aafke Hulk, dr. Petra Sleeman, prof. dr. Jeannette Schaeffer 

2015

• Berends, S., Hulk, A. and Sleeman, P. (2015). The acquisition of Dutch and French pronouns. Anéla Juniorendag, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (talk)

• Berends, S., Hulk, A. and Sleeman, P. (2015). The acquisition of the Dutch pronoun ER and the French pronoun EN. TiN-dag, Utrecht, The Netherlands (talk)

2014

• De Cat, C., Berends, S. and Serratrice, L. (2014). Cognitive Advantages in Bilingual Children. IASCL-conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (talk)

• Berends, S. (2014). Cross-linguistic influences on the acquisition of Dutch nominal ellipsis and quantitative pronouns. Grammar and Cognitition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (talk)

2011

• Berends, S. and De Swart, P.J.F. (2011). Structural Priming in Dutch Adverb-Object Ordering. AMLAP, Paris, France (talk)

• Berends, S. (2011). Syntactic Priming in Comprehension: an experimental approach using Dutch argument-adjunct constructions. UPF, Barcelona, Spain (talk)

• Berends, S. (2011). The interaction between prosody, gesture, and lexical choice in conveying linguistic meaning. UPF, Barcelona, Spain (talk)

• Berends, S., Veenstra, A and Van Hout, A. (2011). All pronouns are not acquired equally in Dutch. TiN-dag, Utrecht, The Netherlands (talk)

• Berends, S. (2011). Adjectivische Inflectie bij Eerste-taalverliezers. ANELA, Utrecht, The Netherlands (talk)

2010 

• Veenstra, A. and Berends, S. (2010). All Pronouns Are Not Acquired Equally in Dutch: Elicitation of Object and Quantitative Pronouns. GALANA, Toronto, Canada (poster)

• Veenstra, A., Berends, S. and Van Hout, A. (2010). The Acquisition of the Dutch Quantitative ‘er.’ TiN-dag, Utrecht, The Netherlands (talk)

• Berends, S. and Veenstra, A. (2010). The Acquisition of the Dutch Quantitative ‘er.’ EMLAR IV, Utrecht, The Netherlands (poster)

• Berends, S. and Veenstra, A. (2010). The Acquisition of the Dutch Quantitative ‘er.’ COST conferentie “Let the Children Speak”, London, United Kingdom (poster)

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