Petra Hendriks

Past projects and events

Completed research projects

  • Acting individually or together? An investigation of children's development of distributivity
    NWO PhDs in the Humanities project, October 2016 - October 2020
    Principal applicant: Petra Hendriks, co-applicant: Jennifer Spenader (Artificial Intelligence)
    PhD student: Anna de Koster
    In this project, we studied how Dutch children acquire the adult distributivity preferences in their native language.

  • Idioms in the ageing brain: The effects of age-related cognitive decline on the processing and comprehension of idioms
    NWO PhDs in the Humanities project, September 2016 - September 2020
    Principal applicant: Petra Hendriks, co-applicant: Simone Sprenger
    PhD student: Amélie la Roi
    This project investigated how elderly adults process idioms such as "in de soep lopen" (literaly: to walk in the soup; figuratively: to become a mess).

  • Asymmetries in Grammar
    NWO Vici project, June 2007 - April 2014
    Principal Investigator: Petra Hendriks
    This project investigated the relation between production and interpretation in normally-developing children, adults and children with autism.
    With funding from my Vici project, I set up the Eye Lab at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen.

  • The Interplay between the Speaker's and the Hearer's Perspective
    NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities project, September 2007 - September 2009
    Principal Investigators: Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen), Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen), Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University)
    In collaboration with: Reinhard Blutner (University of Amsterdam), Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam), Manfred Krifka (ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Hans-Martin Gärtner (ZAS Berlin)

  • Optimization in Coordination
    NWO Aspasia project, September 2002 - September 2007
    Principal Investigator: Petra Hendriks

  • Conflicts in Interpretation
    NWO Cognition project, September 2002 - September 2006
    Principal Investigators: Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen), Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen), Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University)

Past conferences and workshops

  • Online workshop Perspective Taking in Language (PeTaL), June 23-24, 2021, University of Groningen
  • Kick-off workshop of the International Network on Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA), March 23, 2017, University of Amsterdam
  • Lorentz Center workshop "The Invention of Lying: Language, Logic & Cognition", January 9-13, 2017, Lorenz Center@Oort, Leiden
  • Processing of referring expressions in discourse, November 29, 2012, University of Groningen
  • Early Language, September 12, 2012, University of Groningen
  • Structural Alternations: Speaker and Hearer Perspectives, August 24, 2011, University of Groningen
  • Child Language & Eye-tracking: Analyses and Rationale (CLEAR), September 10, 2010, University of Groningen
  • Relating Asymmetries between Speech and Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language (RASCAL), January 24-25, 2009, University of Groningen
  • Third Workshop on Optimality Theory and Interpretation, November 7, 2008, University of Groningen
  • Speaker and hearer perspectives on word order, February 22, 2008, University of Groningen
  • ESSLLI Workshop on Cross-modular Approaches to Ellipsis, August 8-12, 2005, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
  • KNAW Academy Colloquium Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, October 27-28, 2004, KNAW, Amsterdam
  • KNAW Masterclass Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, October 29, 2004, KNAW, Amsterdam
  • Conference on Optimal Interpretations of Words and Constituents, August 30-31, 2000, Utrecht University
  • Conference on the Optimization of Interpretation, January 4-5, 2000, Utrecht University

Other events