CURRENT PROJECT

When agreement doesn't agree : the production and processing of grammatical morphemes by L2 Turkish-Dutch children and children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) .

In this project we examine production and processing of verbal (subject-verb) and nominal (gender) agreement and definite/indefinite articles in semantic contexts in sequential bilinguals (Turkish-Dutch) and monolingual Dutch children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). 

This is an international project done in cooperation with the University of Reading, UK.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles

• Blom, E. and N. Vasić (2011). The production and processing of determiner-noun agreement in child L2 Dutch. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
• Lange de, J., Vasić, N. and S. Avrutin (2009). Reading between the (head)lines: A processing account of article omissions in newspaper headlines and child speech. Lingua 119 (10), 1523-1540.
• Vasić, N., Avrutin, S. and E. Ruigendijk (2006). Interpretation of pronouns in VP-ellipsis constructions in Dutch Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia. Brain and Language 96 (2), 191-206.
• Ruigendijk, E., Vasić N. and S. Avrutin (2006). Reference assignment: Using language breakdown to choose between theoretical approaches. Brain and Language 96 (3), 302-317.
• Vasić, N. and E. Ruigendijk (2005). The Comprehension of Number and Gender Information on Pronouns in Dutch Broca's aphasia. Stem-. Spraak- en Taalpatologie 13 (1), 14-23.
• Kaan, E. and N. Vasić (2004). Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch: The Influence of NP Type on Processing Load.Memory and Cognition 32 (2), 175-184.
• Vasić, N. and E. Ruigendijk (2004). Interpretatie van persoonlijke voornaamwoorden door Nederlandse Broca-patienten. Aphasiologie 26 (1), 18-22.

Doctoral dissertation
Vasić, N. (2006). Pronoun Comprehension in Agrammatic Aphasia: The Structure and Use of Linguistic Knowledge. Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht: LOT.

Book chapters and proceedings (peer reviewed)

• Vasić, N. and E. Blom (2011). Production and Processing of Determiners in Turkish-Dutch child L2 learners BUCLD 28: Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press.
• Ruigendijk, E., S.Baauw, S. Zuckerman, N. Vasić, J.de Lange & S. Avrutin (2011) A cross-linguistic study on the interpretation of pronouns by children and agrammatic speakers: Evidence from Dutch, Spanish and Italian. In: E. Gibson & N. Pearlmutter (Eds.) Processing and Acquisition of Reference.
• Vasić, N, Avrutin, S. and E. Ruigendijk (2007). The economy hierarchy of referential dependencies in child language: evidence from Dutch VP-ellipsis. Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) conference, Dec. 2004, Honolulu.
• Vasić, N. and F. Wijnen (2005). Stuttering as a Monitoring deficit. In: R.J. Hartsuiker, Y. Bastiaanse, A. Postma & F. Wijnen (Eds.) Phonological Encoding and Monitoring in Normal and Pathological Speech.
• Ruigendijk E., Baauw S., Avrutin S. and N. Vasić (2004). The production of SE- and SELF-anaphors in Dutch child language, BUCLD 28: Proceedings of the 28th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, A. Brugos, Micciulla L. and C.E. Smith (eds.), Cascadilla Press.
• Zuckerman, S., Vasić N., Rugendijk E and S. Avrutin (2002). Experimental evidence for the subject rule, Proceedings of IATL 18, Y.N.Falk (ed.). The Israeli Association for theoretical linguistics. IATL 18 Proceedings.
• Zuckerman, S., Vasić N. and S.Avrutin (2001). The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Interpretation of Pronominals by Dutch-speaking Children, BUCLD 26: Proceedings of the 26th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Skarabela B., Fish S. and Anna H.-J. Do (eds.), pp. 781-792. Cascadilla Press.
• Vasić, N. and F. Wijnen (2001). Stuttering and Speech Monitoring, DISS'01: Proceedings of Disfluency inSpontaneous Speech 2001,pp.13-17.TheDepartment of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh.

• Ruigendijk et al. Brain and Language 2006 pdf

• Vasic et al. 2006 Brain and Language pdf

• My PhD thesis

Downloadables

• EUCLDiS 2009 Poster

• BUCLD 2010 Presentation

• 'Morphophonology in language and literacy' workshop 2011 Presentation

Presentations

N.Vasic and E. Blom (2012). Production of articles in child L2 and SLI: one of a kind or different? Poster presented at Workshop on Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society, Bangor, Wales.

N. Vasic, V. Chondrogianni, T. Marinis and E. Blom (2011). Processing of Gender in Turkish-Dutch and Turkish-Greek child L2 learners. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in Boston, MA., USA.

Avrutin, S., De Bode, S., Tribushinina E. and N. Vasić (February 2011). Referential coherence in children after hemispherectomy. Paper presented at the 33d Meeting of the German Linguistics Association, Göttingen.

Vasić, N. and E. Blom (January 2011). Production and processing of gender in Turkish-Dutch child L2 learners. Invited talk at the 'Morpho-phonology in language and literacy' workshop, Amsterdam, NL.

Vasić, N. and E. Blom (November 2010). Production and processing of determiners in Turkish-Dutch child L2 learners. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in Boston, MA., USA.

Miscellaneous

Some odd personal traces....

• Schlijper photography - Amsterdam daily

• South Slavic online library

• My brother Mitar

• Look up a poem

• McSweeney's

No known ancillary activities