Expertise
Within the project "The building blocks of language", I focused on the question what illiterate and literate monolingual and bilingual children regard as the basic units of language. For this, I have conducted a set of nine 'offline' and 'online' tasks among Turkish, Dutch and Turkish-Dutch children aged 4-9.
The questions that I asked myself are:
- Do children perceive and use 'words' as basic units, or smaller units (such as phonemes/syllables) or larger units (such as consituents or 'constructions')?
- Do the units that children most easily segment and process relate to literacy?
- How are the units that children most easily segment and process in language related to typological background and bilingualism?
Promotor:
prof. dr. A.M. Backus
Co-promotores:
dr. A.R. Vermeer
dr. J.J. Kurvers
Key words
Publications
Principal publications- Juffermans, K., & Veldhuis, D. (2012). Comparing spelling and segmentation practices in three versions of a Mandinka text. In J. Blommaert, P. Varis, S. Lehtonen, & M. Spotti (Eds.) Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies 34. Tilburg: Tilburg University.
- Veldhuis,D., Vermeer,A., & Dong Yan (2012). Hu meertalig? De bruikbaarheid van een sneltoets tweetaligheid voor kinderen. Pedagogische studien 3, 144-158.
- Veldhuis, D., & Kurvers, J. (2012). Offline segmentation and online language processing units: the influence of literacy. Written language & literacy 15:2, 165-184.
- Veldhuis, D. (2012). The effect of literacy on the offline segmentation and online processing of high and low frequent chunks of language. In N. de Jong, K. Juffermans, M. Keijzer, & L. Rasier (Eds.), Papers of the Anela 2012 Applied Linguistics Conference. 107-115. Delft: Eburon.
- Veldhuis, D., & Backus, A. (2012). More than frequency: Multiword combinations in pre-literate children's language segmentation. In S. Kersten, C. Ludwig, D. Meer, & B. Rüschoff (Eds.), Language learning and language use: Applied linguistics approaches. 33-46. Duisburg: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr.
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Education
MPhil Linguistics: Structure and Variation in the Languages of the World,
Universiteit Leiden (graduation date 25 July 2011). Average grade: 8.3
BA English language and culture,
Universiteit Leiden (graduation date 15 Sept 2008)
Master ('doctoraal') Languages and Cultures of Japan,
Universiteit Leiden (graduation date: 8 Dec 2005)
Career
Teacher at the HAS University of Applied Sciences, Den Bosch (2011-present)
Study-advisor at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Japan, Leiden University (2006-2008)
Teacher of Dutch and English as a second language, Taiyo, Amstelveen (2005-2006)
Student assistant at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Japan, Leiden University.
Publications
Principal publications- Juffermans, K., & Veldhuis, D. (2012). Comparing spelling and segmentation practices in three versions of a Mandinka text. In J. Blommaert, P. Varis, S. Lehtonen, & M. Spotti (Eds.) Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies 34. Tilburg: Tilburg University.
- Veldhuis,D., Vermeer,A., & Dong Yan (2012). Hu meertalig? De bruikbaarheid van een sneltoets tweetaligheid voor kinderen. Pedagogische studien 3, 144-158.
- Veldhuis, D., & Kurvers, J. (2012). Offline segmentation and online language processing units: the influence of literacy. Written language & literacy 15:2, 165-184.
- Veldhuis, D. (2012). The effect of literacy on the offline segmentation and online processing of high and low frequent chunks of language. In N. de Jong, K. Juffermans, M. Keijzer, & L. Rasier (Eds.), Papers of the Anela 2012 Applied Linguistics Conference. 107-115. Delft: Eburon.
- Veldhuis, D., & Backus, A. (2012). More than frequency: Multiword combinations in pre-literate children's language segmentation. In S. Kersten, C. Ludwig, D. Meer, & B. Rüschoff (Eds.), Language learning and language use: Applied linguistics approaches. 33-46. Duisburg: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr.
Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)
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