Laura De Ruiter

Overview

I study how children learn language. Specifically, I look at how they learn the mapping between mental representations and language. In the past, I have among others investigated how children use intonation to mark something as given or new to their discourse partner. Currently, I am studying how children of different ages interpret complex sentences that describe the relation between two events, and which factors influence that interpretation.

I am also interested in children's acquisition of discourse pragmatics and discourse management: How and when do they start to signal to someone that they're looking for a word (using "uhms" etc.)? Do they monitor what they're saying and when are they correcting themselves? Or when do they start using so-called back-channels ("hm-hm") to indicate understanding.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Studies on intonation and information structure in child and adult German, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Award Date: 5 Mar 2010

Master of Science, The influence of language dominance on bilingual VOT: A case study., University of Edinburgh

Award Date: 1 Dec 2005

Areas of expertise

P Philology. Linguistics
syntax
phonology
information structure
psycholinguistics
BF Psychology
language acquisition
development

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Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora
De Ruiter, L., Lemen, H., Lieven, E. V. M., Brandt, S. & Theakston, A., 22 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language.
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Interactions between givenness and clause order in children's processing of complex sentences.
De Ruiter, L., Lieven, E. V. M., Brandt, S. & Theakston, A., 2020, In: Cognition.
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Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference
The ManyBabies Consortium, Frank, M. C., Alcock, K. J., Arias-Trejo, N., Aschersleben, G., Baldwin, D., Barbu, S., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Blything, R., Böhland, M. P., Bolitho, P., Borovsky, A., Brady, S. M., Braun, B., Brown, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., Campbell, L. E. & Cashon, C. & 131 others, Choi, M., Christodoulou, J., Cirelli, L. K., Conte, S., Cordes, S., Cox, C., Cristia, A., Cusack, R., Davies, C., de Klerk, M., Delle Luche, C., de Ruiter, L., Dinakar, D., Dixon, K. C., Durier, V., Durrant, S., Fennell, C., Ferguson, B., Ferry, A., Fikkert, P., Flanagan, T., Floccia, C., Foley, M., Fritzsche, T., Frost, R. L. A., Gampe, A., Gervain, J., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Gupta, A., Hahn, L. E., Hamlin, J. K., Hannon, E. E., Havron, N., Hay, J., Hernik, M., Höhle, B., Houston, D. M., Howard, L. H., Ishikawa, M., Shoji, I., Jackson, I., Jakobsen, K. V., Jartó, M., Johnson, S., Junge, C., Karadag, D., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D. J., Keren-Portnoy, T., Klassen, K., Kline, M., Ko, E.-S., Kominsky, J. F., Kosie, J. E., Kragness, H. E., Kragness, H. E., Krieger, A. A. R., Krieger, F., Lany, J., Lazo, R. J., Lee, M., Leservoisier, C., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Lippold, M., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Luke, S. G., Lundwall, R. A., Cassia, V. M., Mani, N., Marino, C., Martin, A., Mastroberardino, M., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Menn, K., Michel, C., Moriguchi, Y., Morris, B., Nave, K. M., Nazzi, T., Noble, C., Novack, M. A., Olesen, N. M., Orena, A. J., Ota, M., Panneton, R., Esfahani, S. P., Paulus, M., Pletti, C., Polka, L., Potter, C., Rabagliati, H., Ramachandran, S., Rennels, J. L., Reynolds, G. D., Roth, K. C., Rothwell, C., Rubez, D., Ryjova, Y., Saffran, J., Sato, A., Savelkouls, S., Schachner, A., Schafer, G., Schreiner, M. S., Seidl, A., Shukla, M., Simpson, E. A., Singh, L., Skarabela, B., Soley, G., Sundara, M., Theakston, A., Thompson, A., Trainor, L. J., Trehub, S. E., Trøan, A. S., Tsui, A.S.-M., Twomey, K., Von Holzen, K., Wang, Y., Waxman, S., Werker, J. F., Wermelinger, S., Woolard, A., Yurovsky, D., Zahner, K., Zettersten, M. & Soderstrom, M., 16 Mar 2020, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science . 3, 1, p. 24-52 29 p.
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Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences
De Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S. & Lieven, E., Feb 2018, In: Cognition. 171, p. 202-224 22 p.
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Commentary on Branigan et al; Don’t shoot the giant whose shoulders we are standing on.
de Ruiter, J. P. & De Ruiter, L., 2017, (Accepted/In press) In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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De Ruiter et al, complex sentence comprehension information structure data set
De Ruiter, L. (Creator), Lieven, E. (Creator), Brandt, S. (Creator) & Theakston, A. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 2021
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/P8KZM, https://osf.io/p8kzm/
Dataset
Analysis of complex sentences in two dense corpora of mother-child interactions
De Ruiter, L. (Creator), Lieven, E. (Creator), Brandt, S. (Creator) & Theakston, A. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 2021
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/VD93Z, https://osf.io/vd93z/
Dataset
Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences
De Ruiter, L. (Creator), Theakston, A. (Creator), Brandt, S. (Creator) & Lieven, E. (Creator), Elsevier BV, 1 Dec 2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.015
Dataset

Laura De Ruiter

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Overview

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Areas of expertise

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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora

Interactions between givenness and clause order in children's processing of complex sentences.

Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference

Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences

Commentary on Branigan et al; Don’t shoot the giant whose shoulders we are standing on.

De Ruiter et al, complex sentence comprehension information structure data set

Analysis of complex sentences in two dense corpora of mother-child interactions

Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences

Laura De Ruiter

Personal profile

Overview

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Areas of expertise

Fingerprint

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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