Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Rowland, C. (2015). Multimodal input and children’s gesture and vocabulary growth.

Workshop on Extensive and Intensive Recordings of Children’s Language Environment (WEIRCLE), Paris, France.

Junge, B., Theakston, A., Lieven, E. (2015). Given-new/new-given? Children’s sensitivity to the ordering of information in complex sentences.

Applied Psycholinguistics, 36(3), 589-612.

Durrant, S., Delle Luche, C., Cattani, A., Floccia, C. (2015). Monodialectal and multidialectal infants’ representation of familiar words.

Journal of Child Language, 42(2), 447-465.

Theakston, A. (2015). Discussant: Building realistic models of language development workshop

Manchester, UK.

Ambridge, B. (2015). Summer Babies.

Interview with BBC 5Live

Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Reid, V. (2015). Infant directed speech and direct eye contact share common neural basis in 5-month-old infants. 

Poster presented at the SRCD – Society for Research in Child Development – Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Parise, E., Volein, A., Csibra, G., Reid, V. (2015). Ostensive-referential communication fosters the interpretation of pictures of objects as symbols of their own kind in 9-month old infants. 

Poster presented at the DUCOG – Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Development, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Dunn, K., Reissland, N. N., & Reid, V. M. (2015). The functional fetal brain: A review of methodological factors in reporting fetal visual and auditory capacity.

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 13, 43-52.

Twomey, K., Westermann, G. (2015).

A neural network model of curiosity-driven infant categorization. (1)

Paper presented at 5th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

Monaghan, P. (2015). Degeneracy results in canalisation of language structure: A computational model of word reading. 

Proceedings of the 38th Cognitive Science Society Conference.

 

Serratrice, L., Hervé, C. (2015). Referential expressions in bilingual acquisition.

In The acquisition of reference (eds. L. Serratrice, S. Allen) John Benjamins, 311-333.

Serratrice, L., Allen, S. (2015). The acquisition of reference.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Serratrice, L., Hesketh, A., Ashworth, R. (2015). The use of reported speech in children’s narratives: A priming study. 

First Language

Denhovska, N., Serratrice, L., Payne, J. (2015). Acquisition of second language grammar under incidental learning conditions: The role of frequency and working memory. 

Language Learning 66(1) 1-32.

Reid, V., Dunn, K. (2015). The development of brain mechanisms for social attention in humans.

In The many faces of social attention: Behavioural and neural measures (eds. A. Puce, B. Bertenhal) Springer. p.67-91.

Gredeback, G., Kaduk, K., Bakker, M., Gottwald, J., Ekberg, T., Elsner, C., Reid, V., Kenward, B. (2015). The neuropsychology of infant’s pro-social preferences. 

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Dunn, K., Reissland, N., Reid, V. (2015). The functional foetal brain: A systematic preview of methodological factors in reporting foetal visual and auditory capacity.

 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 13, 43-52.

Sirri, L., & Rämä, P. (2015). Two languages, one mind: Within language priming in French-Spanish bilingual children.

 Poster presented at the Biennial Society of Research in Child Development. 19-21 March, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Monaghan, P., Zuidema, W. (2015). General purpose cognitive processing constraints and phonotactic properties of the vocabulary. 

In the Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: University of Glasgow.

Sirri, L., & Rämä, P. (2015). Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying semantic priming during language acquisition. 

Journal of Neurolinguistics, 35, 1-12.

O’Grady, C., Kliesch, C., Smith, K., Scott-Phillips, T (2015). The ease and extent of recursive mindreading, across implicit and explicit tasks.

 Evolution and human behaviour 36(4), 313-322

Gobet, F. (2015). Vocabulary acquisition.

 In International encyclopaedia of the social & behavioural sciences, (ed. J. Wright) Vol25, 2nd edition: Elsevier, 226-231

Chang, F. (2015). Linking vision and language: From infant cognition to eye-tracking in the visual world. 

Paper presented at the Kyoto Institute of Technology Seminar on Language Development, Kyoto, Japan.

Ambridge, B., Bannard, C., Jackson, G. (2015). Is grammar spared in Autism Spectrum Disorder? Data from judgements of verb argument structure overgeneralization errors. 

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45(10), 3288-3296

Ambridge, B. & Blything, R. (2015). A connectionist model of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization.

 Journal of Child Language, 43(6), 1245-1276.

Vihman, V., Lieven, E. & Theakston, A. (2015). Practice with pronouns: Acquisition of differential object case-marking in Estonian. 

Paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) annual conference, London, UK.

Anna Theakston & Stacey McKnight & Elena Lieven. (2015). My do it! Explanations for children’s case marking errors in English.

 

Invited Syposium at the Developmental Section conference of the British Psychological Society, Manchester, UK

Virve Vihman, Elena Lieven, & Anna Theakston. (2015). Something from nothing: What do children learn from omitted arguments in the input?

 

Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, Warwick, UK

Michelle Davis, Thea Cameron-Faulkner,& Anna Theakston (2015). Exploring patterns in tag question production: A multiple correspondence analysis of form and function.

Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, Warwick, UK

Akiko Okuno, Thea Cameron-Faulkner, & Anna Theakston (2015). How does the world look to you?

Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, Warwick,UK

Vihman, V., Lieven, E., & Theakston, A. (2015). Practice with pronouns: acquisition of differential object case-marking. 

Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

Fitz, H. & Chang, F. (2015). Prediction in error-based learning explains sentence-level ERP effects. 

Talk presented at the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Valletta, Malta

Chang, F. & Jessop, A. (2015). A cross-linguistic model of production and comprehension in visual worlds. 

Talk presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Los Angeles, USA

Lloyd-Kelly, M., Gobet, F. & Lane, P. (2015). Be-Bop-A-Lula: A CHREST model of infant word segmentation.

Poster presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster University. Lancaster: UK.

Kampis, D., Parise, E., Csibra, G. and Kovács, Á. M. (2015). Neural signatures for sustaining object representations attributed to others in preverbal human infants. 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1819):20151683. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1683.

Michel, C., Stets, M., Parise, E., Reid, V. M., Striano, T., and Hoehl, S. (2015). Theta- and alpha-band EEG activity in response to eye gaze cues in early infancy.

NeuroImage 118, 576-583

Domínguez-Martínez E, Parise E, Strandvall T, Reid VM (2015). The Fixation Distance to the Stimulus Influences ERP Quality: An EEG and Eye Tracking N400 Study.

PLoS ONE 10(7).

Peter, M. (2015). The role of the verb in the development of syntax: evidence from the structural priming paradigm.

PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

Schmerse, D., Lieven, E. and Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children use shared experience to interpret definite reference.

Journal of Child Language, 42(5), pp. 1146–1157.

Koymen, B., Lieven, E., Brandt, S. (2015). Syntactic and semantic coordination in finite complement-clause constructions: a diary-based case study Journal of Child Language 43, 1, 22-42

Cameron-Faulkner, T., Theakston, A., Lieven, E., Tomasello, M. (2015). The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing 

Infancy, 20, 5, 576-586

Freudenthal, D., Alishahi, A. (2015). Computational Models of Language Acquisition

Blything, R., Ambridge, B., Lieven, E. (2015). Children Use Statistics and Semantics in the Retreat from Overgeneralization

PLoS ONE, 9, 10

Ambridge, B. (2015). Island constraints and overgeneralization in language acquisition

, 26(2), 361-370

Ambridge, B., Lieven, E., (2015). A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition

In The Handbook of Language Emergence, (eds B. MacWhinney and W. O’Grady), John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, USA. pp478-510

Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Poltrock, S., Floccia, C. (2015). A methodological investigation of the Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm: Methods of analyses, picture selection and data rejection criteria. 

Infant Behaviour and Development, 40, 151-72

Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Sleep-driven computations in speech processing. 

Poster presented at the New Directions in Implicit and Explicit Language Learning symposium, Lancaster, UK.

Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation of non-adjacent dependencies. 

Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, BCBL, San Sebastian, Spain.

Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). How do high frequency words assist language acquisition in infant and adult learners? 

Talk presented at the First Annual LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference. Liverpool, UK.

Brandt, S., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). German children’s Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items, Language Learning and Development

DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2015.1052448

Lieven, E. (2015). Other cultures, other languages.

Talk given 8 November, Manchester Museum.

Theakston, & Koymen, B. (2015). Getting ready for school. 

Talk given 8 November, Manchester Museum.

Ambridge, B. (2015). Clever mistakes.

Talk given 8 November, Manchester Museum.

Monaghan, P. (2015). How do we learn words? 

Talk given 8 November, Manchester Museum.

Pine, J. (2015). My mistake. 

Nursery World Magazine, 16 November, 21-24.

Lieven, E. (2015). Dog eats man.

Nursery World Magazine, 19 October, 21-24.

Serratrice, L. & Durrant, S. (2015). Confused?

Nursery World Magazine, 21 September, 22-24.

Rowland, C. (2015). Nativism in language acquisition research: Conflict and consensus with constructivism. 

Paper presented at Perspectives on nativism, Edinburgh, UK.

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., & Lieven, E. V. M. (2015). Explanatory adequacy is not enough: Response to commentators on ‘Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t help. 

Language: Perspectives, 91(3): E116-126

Dingemanse, M., Blasi, D. E., Lupyan, G., Christiansen, M. H., & Monaghan, P (2015). Arbitrariness, iconicity and systematicity in language. 

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 603-615.

Theakston, A. (2015). A Formal Occasion.

Nursery World Magazine, 24 August, 26-29.

Boundy, L., Cameron-Faulkner, T. & Theakston, A. (2015). Exploring early proto-declarative behaviours: A fine-grained analysis of infant’s early shows and gives.

Poster presented at Gesture in Language Development Workshop, Warwick, 2015.

Noble, C., Lieven, E., Iqbal, F. & Theakston, A (2015). Converging and competing cues in the acquisition of syntactic structures: the conjoined agent intransitive.

Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000288

Frost, R., Twomey, K. E., Taylor, G., Westermann, G. and Monaghan P. (2015). Word for word. 

Nursery World Magazine, 27 July, 21-23

Atherton, D. (2015). Personalizing Motivation: Combining Motivation Theories and Persuasive Technology for Children’s Language Development. 

Paper presented at Persuasive Technology Conference . Chicago, USA.

Taylor, G. & Herbert, J.S. (2015). The role of language cues on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age. 

Poster to be presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology , San Sebastian, Spain.

Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2015). Curiosity optimises learning in a simulated infant categorisation task. 

Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental and Social Section Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.

Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2015). A neural network model of curiosity-driven infant categorization. 

Paper presented at the Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Brown University, USA.

Rowland, C. & Peter, M. (2015). Up to speed? 

Nursery World Magazine, 15 June, 18-20.

Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G. & Gobet, F. (2015). Defaulting effects contribute to the simulation of cross-linguistic differences in Optional Infinitive errors. 

In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 746-751). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G. & Gobet, F. (2015). Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of Optional Infinitive errors in children’s declaratives and Wh- questions.

Cognition, 143, 61-76.

Brewin, K. & Rowland, C. F. (2015). Testing the validity and usability of a new language monitoring and assessment tool: The BabyTalk app.

Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK

Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., Twomey, K. E., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F. & Freudenthal, D. (2015). Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a construction-general solution to the problem of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization.

PLoS ONE, 10 (4): e0123723.

Taylor, J.S.H., Duff, F.J., Woollams, A., Monaghan, P., & Ricketts, J. (2015). How word meaning influences word reading. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24 (4), 322–328

Aguado-Orea, J. & Pine, J. M. (2015). Comparing different models of the development of verb inflection in early child Spanish. 

PLoS ONE 10 (3): e0119613. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119613

Hilton, M. and Westermann, G. (2015). Shyness affects word learning: evidence from eye-tracking. 

Poster presented at The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2015 Biennial Meeting. Philadelphia, USA.

Theakston, A., Ibbotson, P., Freudenthal, D., Lieven, E. and Tomasello, M. (2015). Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames. 

Chang, F., Choi, Y. and Yeonjung, K. (2015). Why loose rings can be tight: The role of learned object knowledge in the development of Korean spatial fit terms.

Cognition, 136, 196-203

Peter, M., Chang, F., Pine, J., Blything, R. and Rowland, C. (2015). When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task.

Journal of Memory and Language, 81, 1-15.

Ambridge, B., Kidd, E., Rowland, C. and Theakston, A. (2015). The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition. 

Journal of Child Language, 42,

(2), 239-273.

 

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