Karen Miller | John Benjamins

Miller, Karen 2019 Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ionin, Tania and Matthew Rispoli (eds.), pp. 35–58 | Chapter

This paper provides a review of past research on children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation and the impact that variable input has on the acquisition of grammatical morphology. I describe findings from both corpus studies and experimental studies, focusing primarily on the acquisition of… read more

Miller, Karen and Alison Eisel Hendricks 2014 What impact does ambiguous input have on bilingual language acquisition? Grammatical properties interacting with age of onset and input Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, pp. 363–368 | Commentary

Schmitt, Cristina and Karen Miller 2010 Chapter 2. Using comprehension methods in language acquisition research Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research, Blom, Elma and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Chapter

Miller, Karen and Cristina Schmitt 2009 Syllable-final /s/ lenition and the acquisition of plural morphology in Spanish-speaking children Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development, Grinstead, John (ed.), pp. 3–28 | Article

This paper examines the effect of syllable-final /s/ lenition on the production and comprehension of plural marking in Spanish-speaking children. Two varieties of Spanish were examined. The first variety is Chilean Spanish where final /s/ undergoes a process of lenition and is sometimes omitted in… read more