Helen Cairns

List of John Benjamins publications for which Helen Cairns plays a role.

Articles

Cairns, Helen 2013 Metalinguistic skills of childrenGenerative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, Becker, Misha, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 271–290 | Article
This chapter addresses the metalinguistic skills of children from three perspectives. (1) The use of children’s ability to make judgments of grammaticality and reference to test hypotheses about their grammatical knowledge. (2) The development of children’s metalinguistic skills in middle childhood. read more
Cairns, Helen 2008 Language acquisition research. A peek at the past: A glimpse into the futureDevelopmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing, Sekerina, Irina A., Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen (eds.), pp. 169–185 | Article
As the title suggests, this final chapter attempts to place the Workshop on On-Line Methods in Children’s Language Processing and the papers in this volume in a historical context. First, there is a brief review of the 40-year history of research in language acquisition, including the late arrival… read more
Cairns, Helen 1999 Common Methodological Issues In L1 And L2 ResearchThe Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach, Klein, Elaine C. and Gita Martohardjono (eds.), pp. 37 ff. | Article