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  1. Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition

    Article • August 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  2. Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition

    Article • First Language, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  3. Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions

    Article • July 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  4. Children's Acquisition of the English Past-Tense: Evidence for a Single-Route Account From Novel Verb Production Data

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  5. Effects of Both Preemption and Entrenchment in the Retreat from Verb Overgeneralization Errors: Four Reanalyses, an Extended Replication, and a Meta-Analytic Synthesis

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2018, University of California Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  6. The roles of word-form frequency and phonological neighbourhood density in the acquisition of Lithuanian noun morphology

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  7. Disentangling Effects of Input Frequency and Morphophonological Complexity on Children's Acquisition of Verb Inflection: An Elicited Production Study of Japanese

    Article • Cognitive Science, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  8. Horses for courses: When acceptability judgments are more suitable than structural priming (and vice versa)

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  9. Lexical distributional cues, but not situational cues, are readily used to learn abstract locative verb-structure associations

    Article • Cognition, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  10. Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies

    Article • Cognitive Science, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  11. A connectionist model of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  12. An Elicited-Production Study of Inflectional Verb Morphology in Child Finnish

    Article • Cognitive Science, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  13. Is Grammar Spared in Autism Spectrum Disorder? Data from Judgments of Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization Errors

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  14. Island constraints and overgeneralization in language acquisition

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, May 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  15. Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  16. The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  17. Authors' response

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  18. A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition

    Article • January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  19. Children Use Statistics and Semantics in the Retreat from Overgeneralization

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  20. Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  21. The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, June 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  22. The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  23. Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t help

    Article • Language, January 2014, Project Muse

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  24. Just who didn’t eat what, exactly?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, September 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  25. Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form?

    Article • Journal of Child Language, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  26. Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  27. Lisa filled water into the cup: The roles of entrenchment, pre-emption and verb semantics in German speakers’ L2 acquisition of English locatives

    Article • Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  28. How Do Children Restrict Their Linguistic Generalizations? An (Un‐)Grammaticality Judgment Study

    Article • Cognitive Science, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  29. Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both?

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  30. The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  31. The development of abstract syntax: Evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost

    Article • Cognition, October 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  32. Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors

    Article • Cognition, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  33. Assessing Grammatical Knowledge (with Special Reference to the Graded Grammaticality Judgment Paradigm)

    Article • March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  34. The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  35. Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, April 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  36. Children's Pictorial Rating Scale

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  37. Children's judgments of regular and irregular novel past-tense forms: New data on the English past-tense debate.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  38. A Semantics‐Based Approach to the “No Negative Evidence” Problem

    Article • Cognitive Science, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  39. Insa Gülzow & Natalia Gagarina (eds), Frequency effects in language acquisition: Defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. 422. ISBN 978-3-11-019671-9.

    Article • Journal of Child Language, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  40. Child Language Acquisition

    Article • January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  41. Predicting children's errors with negative questions: Testing a schema-combination account

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  42. Language and the learning curve: a new theory of syntactic development. Anat Ninio. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. pp. 206. Price: £26.00, US $59.50. ISBN 9780199299829

    Article • Infant and Child Development, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  43. Action meets word: how children learn verbs. Edited by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta M. Golinkoff. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. pp. 588. Price: $75.00, £46.00. ISBN 0195170008

    Article • Infant and Child Development, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  44. The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors

    Article • Cognition, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  45. Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex‐Question Production

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  46. The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  47. Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model using an elicited imitation paradigm

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Julian Mark Pine, Dr Ben Ambridge

  48. Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: ‘What experimental data can tell us?’

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  49. The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract syntactic construction

    Article • Cognitive Development, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  50. The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  51. Grammaticality Judgment Task

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  52. Over-Generalization of Grammatical Constructions

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Ben Ambridge

  53. Questions

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Ben Ambridge