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Blything, Ryan P.; Ambridge, Ben; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study adjudicates between two opposing accounts of morphological productivity, using English past-tense as its test case. The single-route model (e.g., Bybee & Moder, 1983) posits that both regular and irregular past-tense forms are generated by analogy across stored exemplars in associative memory. In contrast, the dual-route model…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Morphemes, Correlation
Theakston, Anna L.; Ibbotson, Paul; Freudenthal, Daniel; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2015
Productivity is a central concept in the study of language and language acquisition. As a test case for exploring the notion of productivity, we focus on the noun slots of verb frames, such as __"want"__, __"see"__, and __"get"__. We develop a novel combination of measures designed to assess both the flexibility and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Creativity, Semantics
Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognition, 2012
Structural priming paradigms have been influential in shaping theories of adult sentence processing and theories of syntactic development. However, until recently there have been few attempts to provide an integrated account that explains both adult and developmental data. The aim of the present paper was to begin the process of integration by…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Sentences, Verbs
Kidd, Evan; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Language Sciences, 2010
Usage-based approaches to language acquisition argue that children acquire the grammar of their target language using general-cognitive learning principles. The current paper reports on an experiment that tested a central assumption of the usage-based approach: argument structure patterns are connected to high frequency verbs that facilitate…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Grammar
Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
LChildren pass through a stage in development when they produce utterances that contain auxiliary BE ("he's playing") and utterances where auxiliary BE is omitted ("he playing"). One explanation that has been put forward to explain this phenomenon is the presence of questions in the input that model S-V word order (Theakston, Lieven & Tomasello,…
Descriptors: Word Order, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Linguistic Input
Theakson, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In our recent paper, "Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax" ("Journal of Child Language" 31, 61-99), we presented data from two-year-old children to examine the question of whether the semantic generality of verbs contributed to their ease and stage of acquisition over and above the effects of their typically high…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Syntax, Child Language
Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2005
One of the most influential recent accounts of pronoun case-marking errors in young children's speech is Schutze & Wexler's (1996) Agreement/Tense Omission Model (ATOM). The ATOM predicts that the rate of agreeing verbs with non-nominative subjects will be so low that such errors can be reasonably disregarded as noise in the data. The present…
Descriptors: Verbs, Form Classes (Languages), Toddlers, Gender Issues
Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2006
In many cognitive domains, learning is more effective when exemplars are distributed over a number of sessions than when they are all presented within one session. The present study investigated this "distributed learning effect" with respect to English-speaking children's acquisition of a complex grammatical construction. Forty-eight children…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Research, Language Acquisition, English

Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Investigates the role of performance limitations in children's early acquisition of verb-argument structure. Tested Valian's (1991) claims that intransitive frames are easier for children to produce early in development than transitive frames, because they do not require a direct object argument. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Databases, Language Acquisition
McClure, Kathleen; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In the current debate about the abstractness of children's early grammatical knowledge, Tomasello & Abbott-Smith (2002) have suggested that children might first develop "weak" or "partial" representations of abstract syntactic structures. This paper attempts to characterize these structures by comparing the development of constructions around…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Language, Program Validation, Investigations

Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Analyzed naturalistic data from 12 2- to 3-year-old children and their mothers to assess the relative contribution of complexity and input frequency to wh-question acquisition. Results suggests that the relationship between acquisition and complexity may be a by-product of the high correlation between complexity and the frequency with which…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Mothers
Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2004
In many areas of language acquisition, researchers have suggested that semantic generality plays an important role in determining the order of acquisition of particular lexical forms. However, generality is typically confounded with the effects of input frequency and it is therefore unclear to what extent semantic generality or input frequency…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Verbs