Outputs 2016

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Klinger, J., Mayor, J. & Bannard, C. (2016). Children’s Faithfulness in Imitating Language Use Varies Cross‐Culturally, Contingent on Prior Experience. 

Child Development, 87(3), 820-833.

Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Durrant, S., Chow, J., Horvath, K., Cattani, A., Abbot-Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Plunkett, K., Rowland, C., Floccia, C. (2016). It’s a big world: Understanding the factors guiding early vocabulary development in bilinguals.

International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, USA.

Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Rowland, C. (2016). The role of showing and pointing in the vocabulary growth of children aged 8-15 months. 

International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, USA.

Christiansen, M., Monaghan, P. (2016). Division of labour in vocabulary structure: Insights from corpus analyses. 

Topics in Cognitive Science , 8(3), 610-624.

Neumann, C. & Pine, J. M. (2016). Investigating the extended optional infinitive hypothesis in early child German. 

Paper presented at the 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Kaduk, K., Bakker, M., Juvrud, J., Gredebäck, G., Westermann, G., Lunn, J., & Reid, V. M. (2016). Semantic processing of actions at 9 months is linked to language proficiency at 9 and 18 months.  

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 96-108.

Kaduk, K., Bakker, M., Juvrud, J., Gredeback, G., Westermann, G., Lunn, J., & Reid, V. (2016). Relationships between the detection of actions with unexpected outcomes at 9 months and language production at 18 months.  

Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Michel, C., Kaduk, K., Ni Choisdealbha, A., & Reid, V. (2016). Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults.  

Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Gerson, S., Ni Choisdealbha, A., Reid, V., & Hunnius, S. (2016). Integration of contextual information on neural measure of action perception dependent on action planning ability at 10 months. 

Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Dominguez-Martinez, E., Parise, E., Monroy, C., Reid, V. (2016). Gaze-contingent techniques increase infant attention during ERP studies. 

Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Dominguez-Martinez, E., Portoles. O.M., Reid, V. (2016). Some variability in infant ERPs may be due to the data editing process. 

Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

de Ruiter, L. (2016). “You’ve always got to wash your hands before you eat food” – complex sentences in English child-directed speech.  

Presentation at Edinburgh Linguistics Circle, Edinburgh, UK.

De Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S., & Lieven, E. (2016). Temporal, causal and conditional sentences in English child-directed speech. (1)  

Presentation at Complexity workshop (AG4) at the 38th DGfS meeting, Konstanz, Germany.

Theakston, A. (2016). Artbaby-musicbaby-languagebaby. 

Presented at ESRC Festival of Social Science

Theakston, A., Lieven, E. (2016). What’s the story?  

Stockport Early Years Improvement Team Annual Conference

Boundy, L., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Theakston, A. (2016). Exploring early communicative behaviours: A fine-grained analysis of infant shows and gives. 

Infant Behaviour & Development, 44, 86-97.

Frost, R., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development? (1)  

Poster presented at Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar Lancaster, UK.

Twomey, K. E., Smith, A., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Neural Network Models of Psychological Phenomena  

Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW).

Frost, R., Monaghan, P.. Christiansen, M. (2016). High frequency words assist language acquisition.  

Poster presented at 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Bilbao, Spain.

Marno, H., Westermann, G., & Parise, E. (2016). Verbal labeling overrides visual similarity during object categorization in 9-month-old infants 

Poster presented at the BCCCD – Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Westermann, G. (2016). Experience-dependent brain development as a key to understanding the language system.  

Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(2), 446-58.

Hervé, C., Serratrice, L., Corley, M. (2016). Dislocations in French-English bilingual children: An elicitation study.  

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19(5), 987-1000

Hesketh, A., Serratrice, L., Ashworth, R. (2016). Encouraging use of subordination in children’s narratives: A classroom-based priming study. 

Language Learning and Development, 12(4) 413-428.

Sirri, L., Reid, V., & Parise, E. (2016). The evocative power of words for 9-month-old infants.  

Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference on Infant and early Child Development. 25-27 August, Lancaster, UK.

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., Parise, E. (2016). Infants’ understanding and learning of expected, unexpected and novel actions in pedagogical and non-pedagogical contexts. 

Presented at the LuCiD Mini Conference, Manchester, UK.

Durrant, S., Rowland, C. F. , Chang, F., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Peter, M. (2016). Chasing, causality and goals: Conceptual understanding at 9 months and its relationship to later language use.  

Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Bidgood, A. & Ronayne, H. (2016). Validity testing a new Babble Checklist.  

Paper presented at the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development Annual Conference, Manchester, UK.

Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Durrant, S., Peter, M. & Rowland, C.F. (2016). The role of gestures and babble in the vocabulary growth of children aged 8-18 months. 

Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Monaghan and Rebuschat. (2016). Aligning implicit learning and statistical learning: Two approaches, one phenomenon. (1) 

They organised Symposium at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Serratrice, C. De Cat, S. Berends. (2016). Inhibitory control, working memory and language experience in the referential choices of monolingual and bilingual children.  L. Serratrice, C. De Cat, S. Berends presented this poster.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structure. (4)  

Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerp, BE.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Natural language cues, and the acquisition of artificial grammars. (1) 

Poster to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, UK.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structure. (3)  

Poster presented at the 22nd annual AMLaP Conference, Bilbao, ES.

Trotter, A. S., Frost. R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structures. Paper presented at the 2nd LuCiD mini-conference, Manchester, UK.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structure. (2)  

Poster presented at the Lancaster University Faculty of Sciene and Technology Chistmas Conderece, Lancaster, UK.

Cheung, S. and Westermann, G. (2016). Developmental differences in phonemic perception between monolingual and bilingual infants. 

Poster presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant & Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Loucaides, M., Twomey, K. E., and Westermann, G. (2016). The effect of labelling on infants’ object exploration. (1)  

Marina Loucaides, Katherine E Twomey and Gert Westermann presented this poster.

Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016). New light on the status of labels. 

Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Page 2 (Conference proceedings).

Theakston, A., Davis, M. & Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2016). It’s raining, isn’t it? Children’s use of tag questions as a test case for the role of form-function mappings in early language acquisition. 

Proceedings of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, p.154.

Virve Vihman, Felix Engelmann, Anna Theakston & Elena Lieven. (2016). Variability in the input: Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Estonian. 

Paper presented at the International Workshop on The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, France.

Iain Jackson, Anna Theakston, Eugenio Parise and Vincent Reid (2016). Agents, patients, and actions: What is encoded in 12-month-olds’ perceptions of dynamic events? 

Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK

Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). The role of storybooks and screen media exposure on children’s language development. 

Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies , New Orleans, LA, USA.

Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Children’s verb learning from touchscreen apps.  

Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference in Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Can children learn verbs from touchscreen apps? 

Paper presented at The 2nd International LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Manchester, UK.

Taylor, G., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Children’s verb learning: Touchscreen apps versus live interactions.  

Paper presented at the British Psychological Society: Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, Belfast, UK.

Lieven, Elena (2016). The science behind how children learn to talk and why it matters.  

Invited talk presented at the Faculty of Education, Leipzig University

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., Parise, E. (2016). Infants’ understanding of teleological  actions after ostensive communication. (1) 

Budapest Summer School on Memory and Metarepresentation, Budapest, HU

Kliesch, C., Reid, V. M., Theakston, A., Parise, E. (2016). Infants’ understanding of teleological  actions after ostensive communication.  

Lancaster Conference on Child Development, Lancaster, UK

Frost, R. L. A., Gomez, R., Visagie, K., Christiansen, M. H., & Monaghan, P (2016). How do high frequency words assist language acquisition in 12-month-olds? 

Poster presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

de Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S. & Lieven, E. (2016). “You’ve always got to wash your hands before you eat food” – The role of the input in children’s acquisition of adverbial clauses in complex sentences. 

Paper presented at the 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development conference, Manchester.

de Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S. & Lieven, E. (2016). Additional complexity in complex sentences in child-directed speech. 

In T. Tenbrink (Ed.) Proceedings of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, p.29.

de Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S. & Lieven, E. (2016). Temporal, causal and conditional sentences in English child-directed speech.  

Paper presented at “Sentence complexity at the boundary of grammatical theory and processing: A special challenge for language acquisition” Workshop (AG4) at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Konstanz

Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016). A learned label modulates object representations in 10-month-old infants. 

In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.Page 10.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structure. (1)  

Poster presented at the 22nd annual AMLaP Conference. Bilbao, Spain.

Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Natural language cues, and the acquisition of artificial grammars. 

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

Trotter, A. S., Frost, L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Multiple natural language cues assist the processing of hierarchical structure.  

Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of Psycholinguistics in Flanders. Antwerp: Belgium.

Monaghan, P. & Rebuschat, P. (2016). Aligning implicit learning and statistical learning: Two approaches, one phenomenon. 

Symposium presented at The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia: USA.

Monaghan, P. and Rowland, C. F. (2016). Combining Language Corpora With Experimental and Computational Approaches for Language Acquisition Research.  

Language Learning. doi:10.1111/lang.12221

Kirjavainen, M., Lieven, E. V. M. and Theakston, A. L. (2016). Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors 

Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.12407

Lieven, E. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language development: Where do we go from here? 

Language and Cognition, 8(3), pp. 346–368

Kangatharan, J., Uther, M. & Gobet, F. (2016). Native and non native listeners’ speech comprehension performance under adverse listening conditions.  

Proceedings of New Sounds Conference. Aarhus, Denmark: New Sounds.

Lloyd-Kelly, M., Gobet, F., & Lane, P.C.R. (2016). Under pressure: How time-limited cognition explains statistical learning by 8-month old infants.  

Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M. & Gobet, F. (2016). Incorporating defaulting effects into MOSAIC: Building a two-factor model of the Optional Infinitive stage. 

Paper presented at the the 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Manchester, UK.

Engelmann, F., Szreder, M., Kolak, J., Granlund, S., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., Theakston, A., & Lieven, E. (2016). Modelling the acquisition of Polish verb inflection.  

Paper presented at the the 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Manchester, UK.

Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Westermann, G., Dunn, K. and Reid, V. (2016). Dissociating associative and motor aspects of action understanding: Processing of dual-ended tools by 16-month-old infants. 

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 34: 115–131.

Abbot-Smith, K., Imai, M., Durrant, S., & Nurmsoo, E. (2016). The role of timing and prototypical causality on how pre-schoolers fast-map novel verb meanings. 

First Language. doi:10.1177/0142723716679800

Floccia, C., Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R., Duffy, H., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., White, L., Goslin, J., & Vihman, M. (2016). British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli.  

Cognition, 148, 1-9

Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Tatsumi, T. (2016). Domain-General Mechanisms for Speech Segmentation: The Role of Duration Information in Language Learning. 

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000325

Twomey, K. E., Westermann, G., Oudeyer, P.-Y., & Yu, C. (2016). Understanding infants’ curiosity-based learning: empirical and computational approaches. 

Symposium presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies New Orleans, LA, USA.

Hilton, M., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016). Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words.  

Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Loucaides, M., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016). The effect of labelling on infants’ object exploration. 

Poster presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant & Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Westermann, G. & Twomey, K. E (2016). A computational model of infants’ curiosity-based learning.  

In Twomey, K. E., (chair) Understanding Infants’ Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3821.5288

Twomey, K. E., Malem, B. & Westermann, G. (2016). Infants’ information seeking in a category learning task. 

(chair) Understanding Infants’ Curiosity-Based Learning: Empirical and Computational Approaches. Symposium presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Horst, J. S., Twomey, K. E., Morse, A., Nurse, R., & Cangelosi, A (2016). Toddlers and robots learn more object names when everything they see together is the same colour.  

Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant & Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Hilton, M., Twomey, K. E. and Westermann, G. (2016). FaceTime: Shy children’s increased attention to faces and its effect on word learning.  

Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant & Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G. (2016). Learned labels shape prelinguistic infants’ object representations.  

Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant & Child Development, Lancaster, UK. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22396.13442

Ma, S., Twomey, K. E., & Westermann, G. (2016). The effect of background variability on referent selection in fast mapping tasks: Evidence from eye movements. 

Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20877.33763

Twomey, K. E., Morse, A. F., Cangelosi, A., & Horst, J. S. (2016). How context affects early language acquisition: An embodied model of early referent selection and word learning.  

Poster presented at the 2016 IEEE ICDL-EPIROB Workshop on Language Learning, Cergy-Pontoise, France. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26329.93282

Theakston, A. (2016). The LuCiD Research Centre: Language and Communicative Development in the Early Years.

Talk presented at North West SEND and Council for Disabled Children event. Manchester, UK.

Lieven, E. and Theakston, A. (2016). What’s difficult about having conversations and telling stories? 

Talk presented at Stockport Early Years Improvement Team Annual Conference, Stockport, UK.

Twomey, K. E., Smith, A., Monaghan, P. & Westermann, G. (2016). Neurocomputational Models of Cognitive Development and Processing: Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW). 

World Scientific. Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G. & Gobet, F. (2016). Developmentally plausible learning of word categories from distributional statistics. 

In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 674-679). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Freudenthal, D., Pine, J. M., Jones, G. & Gobet, F. (2016). Simulating developmental changes in noun richness through performance-limited distributional analysis. 

In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 602-607). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Räsänen, S. H. M., Ambridge, B. & Pine, J. M. (2016). Comparing generativist and constructivist accounts of the acquisition of inflectional morphology: An elicited production study of Finnish. 

Cognitive Science, 40(7), 1704-1738

Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K. E., Kovic, V. & Westermann, G. (2016). Categories with Mismatching Feature Salience and Diagnosticity: How a Label Helps Learning.

Poster presented at the 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Phliadelphia, USA.

Capelier-Mourguy, A., Twomey, K. E. & Westermann, G. (2016). A neurocomputational model of the effect of learned labels on infants’ object representations.   

Paper presented at the 38th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting. Philadelphia, USA.

Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development?   

Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language acquisition?   

Poster to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar. Lancaster, UK.

Frost, R. L. A, Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. ( (2016). High Frequency Words can Assist Language Acquisition

Talk to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, UK.

Frost, R. L. A, Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). Using Statistics to Learn Words and Grammatical Categories: How High Frequency Words Assist Language Acquisition.  

Poster to be presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Chang, F. (2016). Linguistic adaptation as language learning: Linking L1 and L2 theories.  

Paper presented at the Japanese Society for Language Studies Annual Conference. Tokyo, Japan.

Brandt, S., Buttelmann, D., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Children’s understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks.  

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Twomey, K. E., Chang, F., & Ambridge, B. (2016). Lexical distributional cues, but not situational cues, are readily used to learn abstract locative verb-structure associations.  

Cognition, 153, 124–139.

Thill, S., & Twomey, K. (2016). What’s on the inside counts: A grounded account of concept acquisition and development.  