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Publications

  • The ManyBabies Consortium (to appear). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
  • Stoehr, A., Benders, T., van Hell, J.G. & P. Fikkert (2019), Bilingual preschoolers’ speech is associated with non-native maternal language input. Language Learning and Development. DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2018.1533473.
  • Laura Hahn, Titia Benders, Tineke M. Snijders, Paula Fikkert (2018). Infants’ sensitivity to rhyme in songs. Infant Behavior and Development 52: 130-139.
  • Mathilde Fort, Imme Lammertink, Sharon Peperkamp, Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Paula Fikkert & Sho Tsuji (2018). SymBouki: a meta-analysis on the emergence of sound symbolism in early language acquisition. Developmental Science, 21 (5):e12659. doi: 10.1111/desc.12659
  • Stoehr, A, T. Benders, J. van Hell, P. Fikkert (2018). Heritage language exposure is associated with voice onset time of Dutch-German simultaneous bilingual preschoolers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 21 (3), 598-617. doi: 10.1177/0267658317704261. Impact factor: 3.01
  • Ramachers, S., S. Brouwer, C. Gussenhoven, & P. Fikkert (2018). No perceptual reorganization for Limburgian tones? A cross-linguistic investigation with 6-to-12-month-old infants. Journal of Child Language, 45 (2), 290-318. doi: 10.1017/S0305000917000228. Impact factor: 1.642
  • Ramachers, S., S. Brouwer, P. Fikkert (2017). How Native Prosody affects Pitch Processing during Word Learning in Limburgian and Dutch Toddlers and Adults. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences). Open Access. htpps://doi.org.10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01652. Impact factor 2.323.
  • Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., Minagawa, Y., Dupoux, E., Filippin, L., Versteegh, M., Hagoort, P., & Cristia, A. (2017). The more, the better? Behavioral and neural correlates of frequent and infrequent vowel exposure. Developmental Psychobiology 59(5):603-612. doi: 10.1002/dev.21534. Impact factor: 2.392
  • Stoehr, A., Benders, T., van Hell, J. G., & Fikkert, P. (2017). Second language attainment and first language attrition: The case of VOT in immersed Dutch-German late bilinguals. Second Language Research: 1–36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317704261 Impact factor: 1.405
  • Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2017). ‘Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations’. Developmental Psychology, 52(3): 379-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000093. Impact Factor: 3.21.
  • Buckler, H. & Fikkert, P. (2016). ​Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: Evidence from production and perception. Frontiers in Psychology 7:540. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540. Impact factor: 2.323
  • Buckler, H. & P. Fikkert (2016). ‘Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations’. Language and Speech 59(2), 236-265. DOI: 10.1177/0023830915587038. Impact Factor: 1.04.
  • Van der Feest, S. V. H.  & P. Fikkert (2015). ‘Building phonological lexical representations’. Phonology 32: 207-239. doi:10.1017/S0952675715000135. Impact Factor: 1.69.
  • Bergmann, C., Bosch, L.T., Fikkert, P., Boves, L. (2015). ‘Modelling the noise-robustness of infant's word representations: The impact of previous experience’. PLoS ONE 07/2015; 10(7):e0132245. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0132245. Impact Factor: 3.23
  • Lammertink, I., Casillas, M., Benders, T., Post, B., Fikkert, P. (2015). ‘Dutch and English toddlers' use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions’. Frontiers in Psychology 04/2015; 6. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00495. Impact Factor: 2.80.
  • Tsuji, S., Mazuka, R., Cristia, A., & Fikkert, P. (2015). ‘Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa’. Cognition 134: 252–256. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.009. Impact Factor: 3.63.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. & P. Fikkert (2015). ‘A cross-linguistic perspective on the acquisition of Manner of Articulation features’. Language Acquisition 22(1): 2–39. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2014.892945. Impact Factor: 1.10.
  • Anderssen, M., Y. Rodina, R. Mykhaylyk & P. Fikkert (2014). ‘The acquisition  of the Dative Alternation in Norwegian’. Language Acquisition 21: 72–102. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10489223.2013.864296#.UuZM-fbb_AI
  • 1.10 Impact Factor
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N., S. van der Feest & P. Fikkert (2014). ‘Asymmetries in early word recognition: the case of stops and fricatives’. Language Learning and Development 10(2): 149–178.
  • DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2013.808954. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2013.808954
  • Paulus, M. & P. Fikkert (2014). ‘Conflicting social cues: 14- and 24-month-old infants’ reliance on gaze and pointing cues in word learning’. Journal of Cognition and Development 15(1): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2012.698435
  • Simon, E., M. J. Sjerps & P. Fikkert (2014), ‘Phonological representations in children’s native and non-native Lexicon’. Accepted in: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(1): 3–21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728912000764
  • 1.71 Impact Factor
  • Bergmann, C., L. ten Bosch, P. Fikkert & L. Boves (2013). ‘Segmentation, recognition, generalisation: Investigating assumptions in the headturn preference procedure’. Frontiers in Language Sciences.
  • 2.80 Impact Factor
  • Fikkert, Paula & Nicole Altvater-Mackensen (2013). ‘Variation in Language Acquisition: insights into variation across children based on longitudinal Dutch data on phonological acquisition’. Studia Linguistica 67(1): 148–164. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/stul.12004/abstract
  • Anderssen, M., P. Fikkert, R. Mykhaylyk & Y. Rodina (2012). ‘The Dative Alternation in Norwegian Child Language’. Nordlyd 39.1, special issue on ‘The Grammar of Objects’, eds. Kristine Bentzen and Antonio Fábregas, pp. 24–43. Tromsø. http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2286
  • Bergmann, C., M. Paulus & P. Fikkert (2012). ‘Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Pronouns and Reflexives: The Impact of the Task’. Journal of Child Language 39 (4): 777–803). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000911000298
  • Zamuner, T. S., A. Kerkhoff & P. Fikkert (2012). ‘Phonotactics and morpho-phonology in early child language: Evidence from Dutch’. Applied Psycholinguistics 33 (3): 481–499. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716411000440
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. & P. Fikkert (2010). ‘The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production’. Lingua 120: 1898–1909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.010
  • Fikkert, P. (2010). ‘Developing representations and the emergence of phonology: evidence from perception and production’. In: C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. d’Imperio, N. Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation (Phonology & Phonetics 4-4). Pp. 227–258.
  • Fikkert, P. & H. de Hoop (2009). ‘Language learning in Optimality Theory’. Journal of Linguistics 47 (2): 311–358. DOI: 10.1515/LING.2009.012
  • Zamuner, T.S., P. Fikkert & B. Gick (2007). ‘Production facilitates lexical acquisition in young children’ (Abstract). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122: 3031.
  • Fikkert, P. & M.J. Freitas (2006). ‘Allophony and allomorphy cue phonological development: Evidence from the European Portuguese vowel system’. Journal of Catalan Linguistics 5: 83–108. http://ddd.uab.cat/record/12500?ln=en
  • Fikkert, P. (2005). ‘From phonetic categories to phonological features specification: Acquiring the European Portuguese vowel system’. Lingue e Linguaggio 4(2): 263–280.
  • Schiller, N.O., P. Fikkert & C.C. Levelt (2004). ‘Stress priming in picture naming’. Brain and Language 90: 231–240.
  • Lahiri, A. & P. Fikkert (1999). ‘Trisyllabic shortening’. English Language and Linguistics 3: 229–267.
  • Fikkert, P., Z. Penner & K. Wymann (1998). ‘Das Comeback der Prosodie. Neue Wege in der Diagnose und Therapie von phonologischen Störungen’. LOGOS 2: 84–97.
  • Fikkert, P. (1995). ‘State of the article on acquisition of phonology’. Glot International 8. An extended and revised version of this appeared in L. Cheng & R. Sybesma (Eds.), The GLOT International State-of-the-Article Book 1. 221–250.

  • Fikkert, P, L. Liu & M. Ota (subm./accepted). ‘The acquisition of word prosody’. To appear in Chen, A. & C. Gussenhoven (Eds.), Handbook of prosody.
  • Fikkert, P. & R. S. Santos (2011). ‘The use of cues to word stress in word recognition by Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch children’. In: Ferreira-Gonçalves, Giovana, Brum-de-Paula, Mirian Rose & Keske-Soares, Márcia (Eds.), Estudos em Aquisição Fonológica. Universidade Federal de Pelotas. 107–132.
  • Fikkert, P. & C.C. Levelt (2008). ‘How does place fall into place? The lexicon and emergent constraints in the developing phonological grammar’. In: P. Avery, B. Elan Dresher & K. Rice (Eds.), Contrast in phonology: Perception and Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton. 219–256.
  • Fikkert, P. (2007). ‘Acquiring phonology’. In: P. de Lacy (Ed.), Handbook of phonological theory. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. 537–554.
  • Kager, R., S. van der Feest, P. Fikkert, A. Kerkhoff & T.S. Zamuner (2007). ‘Representations of [voice]: Evidence from Acquisition’. In E.J. van der Torre & J. van de Weijer (Eds.), Voicing in Dutch. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Company. 41–80.
  • Fikkert, P., E. Dresher & A. Lahiri (2006). ‘Prosodic preferences in the history of English’. In: A. van Kemenade & B. Los (Eds.), Handbook of English historical linguistics. Blackwell. 125–150.
  • Fikkert, P. (2005). ‘Getting sounds structures in mind. Acquisition bridging linguistics and psychology?’ In: A.E. Cutler (Eds.), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 43–56.
  • Fikkert, P. (2003). ‘Het voetenwerk in taalverandering en taalverwerving. Over het optimaliseren van de prosodische structuur van woorden’. In: Schutter, G. De & S. Gillis (Eds.). Klankstructuren van (een) taal. Nederlandse fonologie aan het begin van de eeuw. Gent: KANTL. 165–197.
  • Fikkert, P. (2002). ‘The prosodic structure of prefixed words in the history of West Germanic’. In: Fikkert, P. & H. Jacobs (Eds.), Development in prosodic systems. Berlin: Mouton. 315–348.
  • Fikkert, P. (2001). ‘Compounds Triggering Prosodic Development’. In: J. Weissenborn & B. Hoehle (Eds.), Approaches to Bootstrapping. Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Volume II. 59–86.
  • Fikkert, P. (2000). ‘Prosodic Variation in ‘Lutgart’’. In A. Lahiri (Ed.), Analogy, Leveling, Markedness. Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 127. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 301–332.
  • Fikkert, P. (2000). ‘Acquisition of Phonology’. In: L. Cheng & R. Sybesma (Eds.), The First Glot International State-of-the-Article Book. The Latest in Linguistics. Studies in Generative Grammar 48. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 221–250.
  • Fikkert, P. (1998). ‘The acquisition of Dutch phonology’. In S. Gillis & A. de Houwer (Eds.), The acquisition of Dutch. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 163–222.

  • Hahn, L., M. ten Buuren, M. de Nijs, T.S. Snijders & P. Fikkert (2019). ‘Acquiring novel words in a second language through mutual play with child songs – the Noplica Energy Center’. To appear in Proceedings of Musica.
  • Ramachers, S.T.M.R., Brouwer, S.M. & Fikkert, J.P.M. (2018). Perception and lexical encoding of tone in a restricted tone language. Developmental evidence from Limburgian. In Proceedings of TAL 2018, Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (pp. 108-113). Berlijn
  • Fikkert, P & I. Lammertink (2016). Speech perception in children with a cleft palate: preliminary finding. Proceedings of the 40th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal (eds.), 130-142 (complete pdf)
  • Van der Feest, S.V.H., P. Fikkert, & B. L. Davis (2016). Cross-linguistic differences in the perception of coronal and dorsal CV-combinations: Evidence from English and Dutch. Proceedings of the 40th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal (eds.), 417–428 (complete pdf)
  • Klatter-Folmer, H.A.K., Hout, R.W.N.M. van, Heuvel, H. van den, Fikkert, J.P.M., Baker, A., Jong, J. de, Wijnen, F., Sanders, E.P. & Trilsbeek, P.J.T.M. (2014). Vulnerability in Acquisition, Language Impairments in Dutch: Creating a VALID Data Archive. In Proceedings of LREC 2014 (pp. 357-364). Reykjavik: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
  • Heuvel, H. van den, Sanders, E.P., Klatter-Folmer, H.A.K., Hout, R.W.N.M. van, Fikkert, J.P.M., Wijnen, F. & Trilsbeek, P.J.T.M. (2014). Data curation for a VALID Archive of Dutch Language Impairment Data. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3 (2), 127–135. doi: 10.1075/dujal.3.2.02heu
  • Fikkert, P & A. Chen (2011). ‘The Role of Word-Stress and Intonation in Word Recognition in Dutch 14- and 24-Month-Olds’. In: Nick Danis, Kate Mesh, and Hyunsuk Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Development 35. 222–232.
  • Dijkstra, N. & P. Fikkert (2011). ‘Universal Constraints on the Discrimination of Place of Articulation? Asymmetries in the Discrimination of ‘paan’ and ‘taan’ by 6-month-old Dutch Infants’. In: Nick Danis, Kate Mesh, and Hyunsuk Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Development 35. 170–182.
  • Bergmann, C., M. Paulus & P. Fikkert (2010). ‘A closer look at pronoun comprehension: comparing different methods’. In: João Costa, Ana Castro, Maria Lobo and Fernanda Pratas (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009.
  • Bree, E. de, P. van Alphen, P. Fikkert & F. Wijnen (2008). ‘Metrical stress in comprehension and production of Dutch children at risk of dyslexia’. In: H. Chan, H. Jacob, and E. Kapia (Eds.), BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. 60-71.
  • Santos, R. S. & P. Fikkert (2007). ‘The relationship between word prosodic structure and sentence prosody. (Non)evidence from Brazilian Portuguese’. In: S. Baauw, J. van Kampen & M. Pinto (Eds.), The Acquisition of Romance Languages. Selected Papers from The Romance Turn II. LOT (LOT Occasional Series 8): Utrecht. 165-179.
  • Chen. A. & P. Fikkert (2007). ‘Intonation of early two-word utterances in Dutch’. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 315–320.
  • Alphen, P. van, E. de Bree, P. Fikkert & F. Wijnen. (2007). ‘The role of metrical stress in comprehension and production in Dutch children at-risk of dyslexia’. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007. 2313–2316.
  • Zamuner, T.S., A. Kerkhoff & P. Fikkert (2006). ‘Acquisition of voicing neutralization and alternations in Dutch’. Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Vol. 2. Cascadilla Press. 701–712.
  • Fikkert, P., M. Van Heugten, P. Offermans & T.S. Zamuner (2005). ‘Rhymes as a window into grammar’. In: A. Brugos, M.R. Clark-Cotton & S. Ha (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29 the annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Vol. 1. Sommerville, MA, Cascadilla Press. 204–215.
  • Feest, S. van der & P. Fikkert (2005). ‘Segmental detail in children's early lexical representations’. In: Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception (PSP) on CD.
  • Levelt, C.C., Schiller, N.O. & P. Fikkert (2003). ‘Metrical priming in speech production’. In: Proceedings 15th ICPhS Barcelona. 2481–1484.
  • Fikkert, P. & Z. Penner (1999). ‘Stagnation in Prosodic Development of Language-Disordered Children’. In: M. Beers (ed.), Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 96: 1–16.
  • Fikkert, P. & Z. Penner (1998). ‘Stagnation in prosodic development of language-disordered children’. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Acquisition 1997. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 201–212.
  • Fikkert, P. & M. J. Freitas (1997). ‘Acquisition of syllable structure constraints: Evidence from Dutch and Portuguese’. In: Language acquisition: Knowledge representation and processing. Proceedings of GALA '97. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 217–222.
  • Fikkert, P. (1996). ‘A parametric acquisition model for stress’. WECOL 1994 Proceedings.
  • Fikkert, P. (1995). ‘A prosodic account of truncation in child language’. In: W. U. Dressler, M. Prinzhorn & J. Rennison (Eds.), Phonologica, Proceedings of the 7th International Phonology Meeting 1992. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier. 77–86.
  • Fikkert, P. (1995). ‘Models of acquisition: How to acquire stress’. In J. Beckman (Ed.), Proceedings of NELS 25, Vol. 2. Amherst: GLSA. 27–42.
  • Fikkert, P. (1995). ‘The role of negative evidence in the acquisition of phonology’. In: M. Verrips & F. Wijnen (Eds.), Parameters, Amsterdam Series in Child Language Development 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 33–52. This also appeared in: I. Moen, H. G. Simonsen & H. Lødrup (Eds.), Proceedings from the XVth Scandinavian conference of linguistics. Oslo: Oslo University Press. 148–159.
  • Fikkert, P. (1993). ‘The Acquisition of Dutch stress’. In: M. Verrips & F. Wijnen (Eds.), The acquisition of Dutch, Amsterdam Series in Child Language Development 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 21–35.
  • Fikkert, P. (1992). ‘Metathesis in kinderfonologie: een oplossing voor de kip/ei kwestie’. (Metathesis in child phonology: a solution for the chicken/egg problem). In: P. Jordens & A. Wijnands (Eds.), Fourth NET-symposium 1992 , VU, Amsterdam. 25–30.

  • Lammertink, I., M. Casillas, T. Benders, B. Post & P. Fikkert (2016). Turn-taking bij jonge kinderen : Zinsbouw, zinsmelodie en turn-taking bij jonge kinderen. In:  Nederlands Tijdschrift voor logopedie. Februari 2016: 6-11.
  • Usen, K. van, W. Haeseryn & P. Fikkert (2012). ‘Weet jij wanneer je op gaat splitsen? Onderzoek naar de voorkeur voor het bijeenhouden of splitsen van partikelwerkwoorden in de bijzin’. Taal en Tongval 64: 103–127.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N. & P. Fikkert (2007). ‘On the acquisition of nasals in Dutch and German’. In: B. Los & M. van Koppen (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007. John Benjamins. 14–24.
  • Santos, R.S. & P. Fikkert (2007). ‘The relationship between word prosodic structure and sentence prosody. (Non)evidence from Brazilian Portuguese’. In: S. Baauw, J. van Kampen & M. Pinto (Eds.), The Acquisition of Romance Languages. Selected Papers from The Romance Turn II. LOT (LOT Occasional Series 8): Utrecht. 165-179.
  • Fikkert, P. & M.J. Freitas (2004). ‘The role of language-specific phonotactics in the acquisition of onset clusters’. In L. Cornips & J. Doetjes (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 58–68.
  • Neijt, A., L. Krebbers & P. Fikkert (2002). ‘Rhythm and Semantics in the Selection of Linking Elements’. In: H. Broekhuis & P. Fikkert (Eds.), Linguistic in the Netherlands 2002. Amsterdam/Philadelpia: Benjamins. 117–127.
  • Fikkert, P. (1998). ‘Stress and foot structure in Middle Dutch: Evidence from Lutgart’. In: R. van Bezooijen & R. Kager (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. 109–122.
  • Fikkert, P. (1996). ‘Kinderfonologie: de verwerving van klemtoon’. (Child phonology: the acquisition of stress). Nederlandse taalkunde 1: 2–12.
  • Fikkert, P. (1994). ‘On the acquisition of rhyme structure in Dutch’. In: R. Bok-Bennema & C. Cremers (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1994. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 37–48.

Monographs

  • Fikkert, P. (in prep.). Child Phonology: Acquisition and Development. Text book series.
  • Fikkert, P. (2008). Kijk op Klank. Inaugural Lecture. Radboud University Nijmegen.
  • Fikkert, P. (1994). On the acquisition of prosodic structure. Ph.D. Dissertation, HIL dissertations 6, Leiden University. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics.

Edited books

  • Fikkert, P. & H. Jacobs (Eds.) (2003), Development in prosodic structure. Berlin: Mouton.
  • Cornips, L. & P. Fikkert (Eds.) (2003), Linguistic in the Netherlands 2003. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Broekhuis, H. & P. Fikkert (Eds.) (2002), Linguistic in the Netherlands 2002. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Fikkert, P. (1995). ‘Summary of ‘On the acquisition of prosodic structure’. Glot International 4.
  • Fikkert, P. (1995). Review of ‘Language acquisition, metrical theory, and optimality. A study of Dutch word stress’, by D. Nouveau. Glot International

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