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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. 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

  45. 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

  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