Elena Lieven
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Lieven plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1569-0644
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
2018 Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 177–196 | Chapter
This chapter reports an experimental study in which children aged 4;9–6;1 were taught two novel constructions with meanings of enabling/helping and preventing/stopping with OSV and VOS word order. The aim was to test Tomasello’s (2003) proposal that children form abstract constructions by… read more
2018 Constructively combining languages: The use of code-mixing in German-English bilingual child language acquisition Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:3, pp. 393–409 | Article
Language development in bilingual children is often related to differing levels of proficiency. Objective measurements of bilingual development include for example mean length of utterance (MLU). MLU is almost always calculated for each language context (including both monolingual and code-mixed… read more
2018 Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:4, pp. 477–501 | Article
Intra-sentential code-mixing presents a number of puzzles for theories of bilingualism. In this paper, we examine the code-mixed English-German utterances of a young English-German-Spanish trilingual child between 1;10 – 3;1, using both an extensive diary kept by the mother and audio recordings.… read more
2017 Chapter 6. Preschoolers’ use of questions in their joint decisions with peers Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ketrez, F. Nihan, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek (eds.), pp. 85–98 | Chapter
This paper investigates how preschoolers use questions to invite their peers’ input for their joint decisions. Three- and 5-year-old peer dyads were asked to build a zoo and jointly decide on where to place each item. Both age groups used wh-questions predominantly with inanimate subjects,… read more
2011 Chapter 5. Acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish: The effect of input The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 107–140 | Article
Little research has been conducted to date investigating Finnish children’s relative clause acquisition. We report a study on the emergence of these structures in one Finnish speaking child’s corpus between the ages of 1;7–3;6. The study focuses on (1) the effect of the input language, and (2) the… read more
2010 Chapter 5. Language development in a cross-linguistic context Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 91–108 | Article
Children’s language development has only been studied fro a very small fraction of the world’s languages. This chapter provides a brief introduction to existing cross-linguistic research on morphological and syntactic development in young children learning oral languages. The final section… read more
2009 Repetition and reuse in child language learning Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article
2008 Learning the English auxiliary: A usage-based approach Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 61–98 | Article
2002 Afterword: A view from research on spoken language development Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 277–290 | Article
