Pauses in speech may be categorized on the basis of their length. Some authors claim that there are two categories (short and long pauses) (Baken & Orlikoff, 2000), others claim that there are three (Campione & Véronis, 2002), or even more. Pause lengths may be affected in speakers with aphasia. Individuals …

In a longitudinal design, we measured 50 low-achieving adolescents’ reading comprehension development from Grades 7 to 9. There were 24 native Dutch and 26 language minority students. In addition, we assessed the roles of (a) linguistic knowledge, (b) metacognitive knowledge, and (c) reading fluency …

Ook gewóón proza heeft stijl. Dat is de argumentatieve stelling die in de titel van dit proefschrift verborgen zit. Vaak wordt stijl gelijkgesteld met het gebruik van stijlfiguren en wordt daarnaast aangenomen dat er dus ook zoiets bestaat als proza zonder stijl. Dat ook ‘gewoon’ proza stijl heeft , …

This doctoral thesis describes three case studies of service engineers participating in organizational change, interacting with managers and consultants. The study investigates the role of differences in professional discourse and culture when these three professional groups interact in organizational …