Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
Anna L. Theakston
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna L. Theakston plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Introduction Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Chapter
2020 Where form meets meaning in the acquisition of grammatical constructions Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 131–154 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the question of how children learn form–meaning mappings in the development of multiword utterances (i.e. the meaning associated with a specific sentence produced in a specific context). Following a theoretical overview, we examine the relationship between the input… read more
2020 Chapter 1. Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical Differential Object Marking in Estonian The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, Mardale, Alexandru and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 21–49 | Chapter
We compared the acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical Differential Object Marking (DOM) within Estonian, which employs symmetrical DOM (alternation between overtly case-marked objects) with asymmetrical subsystems (alternation between marked and unmarked objects) for imperatives, impersonal… read more
2014 How do modelled gestures influence preschool children’s spontaneous gesture production? Social versus semantic influence Gesture 14:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
Around the age of nine months, children start to communicate by using first words and gestures, during interactions with caregivers. The question remains as to how older preschool children utilise the gestures they observe into their own gestural representations of previously unseen objects. Two… read more