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.
Ben Ambridge
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ben Ambridge plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Language disorders & speech pathology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors: A review and diary study 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. 113–130 | Chapter
This chapter summarises research on how children avoid overgeneralizations of verb argument structure, focussing on the transitive-causative construction (e.g. *I’m dancing it [c.f. I’m making it dance]). It then presents some new data that bear on this issue: diary data of these types of… read more
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
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. 178–196 | 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
