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  1. Word learning challenges explain nonadult possibility language comprehension in preschoolers.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, September 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ailís Cournane

  2. Diachrony and Diachronica

    Article • Diachronica, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Brian D Joseph, Hiram Smith, Professor Claire Bowern, Ailís Cournane, Dr Joan L Bybee

  3. 5 Adapting acquisition methodologies to study modality in underdescribed languages

    Article • October 2022, De Gruyter

    Ailís Cournane

  4. La production épistémique chez l’enfant francophone : complexité syntaxique et ordre d’acquisition

    Article • Arborescences Revue d études françaises, September 2021, Consortium Erudit

    Ailís Cournane

  5. Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals

    Article • Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, July 2021, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Ailís Cournane

  6. How children learning their first language may affect how languages change over time

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Ailís Cournane

  7. Grammatical representations versus productive patterns in change theories

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Ailís Cournane

  8. In defence of the child innovator

    Article • July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ailís Cournane

  9. L’interrogation partielle en français laurentien et en portugais brésilien : évolutions et microvariation comparatives

    Article • December 2014, De Gruyter

    Ailís Cournane

  10. In Search of L1 Evidence for Diachronic Reanalysis: Mapping Modal Verbs

    Article • Language Acquisition, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Ailís Cournane