Prof. Dr. Heike Behrens

Dreyer, Florian, Schumann, Elke, Behrens, Heike, Buchheim, Anna, Fegert, Jörg, Gündel, Harald, Karabatsiakis, Alexander, Köhler-Dauner, Franziska, Scheidt, Carl Eduard, Waller, Christiane, Ziegenhain, Ute, & Pfänder, Stefam. (2024). Joint responses to crying How mothers and their children comfort crying babies. Research on Children and Social Interaction, 1(8), 57–90. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.26544

Pfänder, Stefan, Schumann, Elke, Freyburger, Philipp, Behrens, Heike, & Buchheim, Anna. (2024). Participation practices in mother-child interactions: longitudinal case studies. European Journal of Psychology of Education , 39, pages 1673–1697. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10212-023-00787-1

Pfänder, Stefan, Schumann, Elke, Freyburger, Philipp, Behrens, Heike, & Buchheim, Anna. (2023). Participation practices in mother‑child interactions: longitudinal case studies. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-023-00787-1

Behrens, H., & Pfänder, S. (2022). Cognitive Linguistics meets Interactional Linguistics: Language development in the arena of language use [Journal-article]. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 10(1), 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2022-0010

Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, & Behrens, Heike. (2022). Konstruktion(en) erst- und zweitsprachlichen Wissens: Lernprozesse und Steuerungsoptionen aus gebrauchsbasierter Perspektive. In Madlener-Charpentier, Karin; Pagonis, Giulio (ed.), Aufmerksamkeitslenkung und Bewusstmachung in der Sprachvermittlung. Kognitive und didaktische Perspektiven auf Deutsch als Erst-, Zweit- und Fremdsprache (pp. 31–64). Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. https://doi.org/10.24053/9783772056871

Behrens, Heike. (2022). Die Enkodierung von Zeitkonzepten in der frühkindlichen Sprachentwicklung. In Mesch, Birgit; Uhl, Benjamin (Ed.), Tempus und Temporalität. Empirische Zugänge zum Erwerb von Zeitlichkeit (pp. 27–44). Waxmann Verlag.

Behrens, Heike, & Pfänder, Stefan. (2022). Cognitive Linguistics meets Interactional Linguistics: Language development in the arena of language use. In Hampe, Beate; Binanzer, Anja (Ed.), Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Vol. 10, 1, pp. 217–238). de Gruyter.

Luginbühl, Martin, Weder, Mirjam, & Behrens, Heike. (2022). Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft in Basel - Empirie-basierte Sprachgebrauchsanalyse. In VSDL - Verein Schweizer Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (Ed.), Germanistik heute (pp. 64–72). dt.

Behrens, Heike. (2021). Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 48(5), 959–983. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000921000556

Behrens, Heike. (2020). From grammatical categories to processes of categorization: The acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective. In Rowland, Caroline F.; Theakston, Anna L.; Ambridge, Ben; Twomey, Katherine E. (Ed.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition. How children use their environment to learn (pp. 91–111). Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.04beh

Allen, S. E. M., & Behrens, H. (2019). Insights into Understanding Human Language from Children’s Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: A Historical and Current Perspective on Central Questions in the Field (pp. 127–146). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10841.003.0013

Allen, Shanley E. M., & Behrens, Heike. (2019). Insights into understanding human language from children’s acquisition of morphology and syntax: a historical and current perspective on central questions in the field. In Hagoort, Peter (Ed.), Human Language: From Genes and Brains to Behavior (pp. 127–145). MIT Press.

Madlener, Karin, Skoruppa, Katrin, & Behrens, Heike. (2017). Gradual development of constructional complexity in German spatial language. Cognitive Linguistics, 28(4), 757–798. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2016-0089

Behrens, Heike. (2017). The role of analogy in language acquisition. In Hundt, Marianne; Mollin, Sandra; Pfenniger, Simone (ed.), The changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives (pp. 215–239). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316091746.010

Behrens, Heike, & Pfänder, Stefan. (2016). Experience Counts : Frequency Effects in Language. In Linguae & litterae (Vol. 54). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346916

Roche, Jörg, Jessen, Moiken, Weidinger, Nicole, Behrens, Heike, Haberzettl, Stefanie, Hasselhorn, Marcus, Ifenthaler, Dirk, Kapica, Natalia, Kecker, Gabi, Klein, Wolfgang, Madlener, Karin, Pagonis, Giulio, Schug, Maike, Skoruppa, Katrin, Terrasi-Haufe, Elisabetta, & Thissen, Frank. (2016). Zur Entwicklung eines interaktiven Verfahrens der Sprachstandsermittlung bei mehrsprachig aufwachsenden Kindern - von der Idee zu ersten Umsetzungsschritten. Zeitschrift Für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 21(2), 127–142. http://tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php/zif/article/view/819/820

Behrens, Heike, Madlener, Karin, & Skoruppa, Katrin. (2016). The role of scaffolding in children’s questions: Implications for (preschool) language assessment from a usage-based perspective. In Goschler, Juliana; Niemeier, Susanne (ed.), Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Vol. 4, pp. 237–259). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2016-0015

Pfänder, Stefan, & Behrens, Heike. (2016). Experience counts. An introduction to frequency effects in language. In Behrens, Heike; Stefan , Pfänder (ed.), Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language (pp. 1–20). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346916-002

Behrens, H. (2015). Introduction (Journal of Child Language (2014) 41:SI (i-iv) 10.1017/S0305000914000385). Journal of Child Language, 42(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000914000518

Schmidlin, Regula, Behrens, Heike, & Bickel, Hans. (2015). Sprachgebrauch und Sprachbewusstsein : Implikationen für die Sprachtheorie. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428674

Behrens, Heike. (2015). Sprachgebrauch und Sprachbewusstsein: Implikationen der empirischen Linguistik für die Sprachtheorie. In Schmidlin, Regula; Behrens, Heike; Bickel, Hans (ed.), Sprachgebrauch und Sprachbewusstsein: Implikationen für die Sprachtheorie (pp. 1–15). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428674-001

Behrens, Heike. (2015). The acquisition of grammatical categories. In Bavin, Edith L.; Naigles, Letitia R. (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (2 ed., pp. 250–270). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316095829.012

Behrens, Heike. (2014). Reflections : 40 Years of JCL. In Journal of Child Language (Vol. 41). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000914000373

Behrens, Heike. (2014). Introduction. Journal of Child Language, 41(SupplementS1), i–iv. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000914000385

Behrens, H. (2014). Editoral. Journal of Child Language, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000573

Berkefeld, Henrike, & Behrens, Heike. (2014, January 1). Fragen Sie nur: Der Kontext hilft beim Verstehen. Badische Zeitung. http://www.badische-zeitung.de/fragen-sie-nur/fragen-sie-nur-der-kontext-hilft-beim-verstehen--94208598.html

Behrens, H. (2013). Editorial. Journal of Child Language, 40(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000912000621

Pfänder, Stefan, Behrens, Heike, Auer, Peter, Jacob, Daniel, Kailuweit, Rolf, Konieczny, Lars, Kortmann, Bernd, Mair, Christian, & Strube, Gerhard. (2013). Erfahrung zählt. Frequenzeffekte in der Sprache - ein Werkstattbericht = (Frequency as a Determinant in Usage-Based Models of Language Change, Language Processing and Language Acquisition). Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 43(169), 7–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03379870

Behrens, Heike, & Pfänder, Stefan. (2013). Die Entstehung von Sprache. In Peter Auer (ed.), Sprachwissenschaft : Grammatik - Interaktion - Kognition (p. S. 319–346). Metzler.

Behrens, H., & Pfänder, S. (2013). Die Entstehung von Sprache (pp. 319–346). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-00581-6_9

Lieven, E., & Behrens, H. (2012). Dense Sampling (pp. 226–239). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444344035.ch15

Behrens, H. (2012). Editorial. Journal of Child Language, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/s030500091100050x

Behrens, Heike. (2012). Corpus analysis of child language. In Chapelle, Carol A. (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (p. S. 1214–1222). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0242

Lieven, Elena, & Behrens, Heike. (2012). Dense sampling. In Erika Hoff (ed.), Research methods in child language : a practical guide (p. S. 226–239). Wiley-Blackwell.

Behrens, Heike. (2011). Grammatik und Lexikon im Spracherwerb : Konstruktionsprozesse. In Engelberg, Stefan; Holler, Anke; Proost, Kristel (ed.), Sprachliches Wissen zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik (p. S. 375–396). de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110262339.375

Behrens, Heike. (2011). Erstspracherwerb. In Die Matrix der menschlichen Entwicklung (pp. 252–273). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259766.252

Behrens, Heike. (2011). Sprache. In Gerhard Lauer; Christine Ruhrberg (Ed.), Lexikon Literaturwissenschaft : hundert Grundbegriffe (p. S. 304–308). Reclam.

Behrens, Heike. (2011). Cues to form and function in the acquisition of german number and case inflection. In Eve V. Clark; Inbal Arnon (ed.), Experience, variation and generalization : learning a first language (p. S. 35–51). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.7.03beh

Behrens, Heike. (2011). Die Konstruktion von Sprache im Spracherwerb. In Alexander Lasch; Alexander Ziem (ed.), Konstruktionsgrammatik: Vol. Bd. 3 : Aktuelle Fragen und Lösungsansätze (p. S. 165–179). Stauffenburg.

Verspoor, Marjolijn H., & Behrens, Heike. (2011). Dynamic systems theory and a usage-based approach to second language development. In Verspoor, Marjolijn H.; de Bot, Kees; Lowie, Wander (Ed.), A dynamic approach to second language development : methods and techniques (p. S. 25–38). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.29.02ver

Behrens, Heike. (2009). Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition. Linguistics, 47(2), 383–411. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.2009.014

Behrens, Heike. (2009). Konstruktionen im Spracherwerb. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 37(3), 427–444. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl.2009.030

Behrens, Heike. (2009). First language acquisition from a usage-based perspective. In de Bot, Kees; Schrauf, Robert W. (Ed.), Language development over the lifespan (1 ed., p. S. 40–59). Routledge.

Behrens, Heike. (2009). Grammatical categories. In The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 199–216). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511576164.012

Behrens, Heike. (2009). Directions in German child and adult language. In Guo, Jinsheng; Lieven, Elena V.M.; Ervin-Tripp, Susan; Budwig, Nancy; Oeszaliskan, Seyda; Nakamura, Keiko (Ed.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language : research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin (p. S. 55–67). Psychology Press.

Behrens, Heike. (2008). Corpora in language acquisition research : history, methods, perspectives. In Trends in language acquisition research (Vol. 6). John Benjaminss Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.6

Behrens, Heike. (2008). Corpora in language acquisition research : history, methods, perspectives. In Behrens, Heike (Ed.), Corpora in language acquisition research : history, methods, perspectives (p. S. 11–30). John Benjamins.

Behrens, H. (2008). Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives (pp. xi–xxx). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.6.03beh

Behrens, Heike. (2007). The acquisition of argument structure. In Herbst, Thomas; Götz, Karin (ed.), Valency : theoretical, descriptive and cognitive issues (p. S. 193–214). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198775.2.193

Abbot-Smith, Kirsten, & Behrens, Heike. (2006). How known constructions influence the acquisition of other constructions : the German passive and future constructions. Cognitive science, 30(6), 995–1026. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0000_61

Behrens, Heike. (2006). The input-output relationship in first language acquisition. Language and cognitive processes, 21(1-3), 2–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960400001721

Behrens, Heike. (2006). Language development: morphology. In Brown, Keith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: Vol. Vol. 6 (p. S. 373–376). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04204-8

Behrens, Heike, & Gut, Ulrike. (2005). The relationship between prosodic and syntactic organization in early multiword speech. Journal of child language, 32(1), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000904006592

Behrens, Heike. (2005). Wortarten-Erwerb durch Induktion. In Wortarten und Grammatikalisierung : Perspektiven in System und Erwerb (pp. 177–197). Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110202090.177

Behrens, H. (2004). Early Grammatical Development Früher Grammatikerwerb. Sprache Stimme Gehor, 28(1), 15–19. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2004-815479

Lieven, E., Behrens, H., Speares, J., & Tomasello, M. (2003). Early syntactic creativity: A usage-based approach. Journal of Child Language, 30(2), 333–370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000903005592

Behrens, H., & Tomasello, M. (1999). And what about the Chinese? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(6). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x99222224

Behrens, H. (1998). How difficult are complex verbs? Evidence from German, Dutch and English. Linguistics, 36(356), 679–712. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1998.36.4.679