Book

Ambridge, B, & Lieven, E.V.M. (in press) Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [book].

Journal Articles

 

Ambridge, B. (2010). Children’s judgments of regular and irregular novel past tense forms: New data on the English past tense debate. Developmental Psychology 46(6) 1497-1504[pdf]

 

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., & Rowland, C. F. (in press). Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study. Cognitive Linguistics [doc]

 

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F., Jones, R.L, & Clark, V. (2009). A semantics-based approach to the ‘no negative-evidence’ problem Cognitive Science, 33(7), 1301-1316 [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B., & Rowland, C.F. (2009). Predicting children’s errors with negative questions: Testing a schema-combination account. Cognitive Linguistics, 20(2), 225-266. [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F. & Young, C.R. (2008) The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children's and adults' graded judgments of argument-structure overgeneralization errors. Cognition 106, 1, 87-129. [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B., Rowland C.F. & Pine, J.M (2008) Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence from Children’s Complex-Question Production.  Cognitive Science 32, 1, 222-255. [pdf]

Ambridge, B., & Goldberg, A., E. (2008). The island status of clausal complements: evidence in favor of an information structure explanation. Cognitive Linguistics, 19(3), 349-381. [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B., Rowland, Theakston, A.L. & Tomasello, M. (2006) Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?' Journal of Child Language 33(3) 519-557 [pdf]

Ambridge, B., & Pine, J.M. (2006) Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model using an Elicited Imitation Paradigm. Journal of Child Language 33(4) 879-898  [pdf]

Ambridge, B. Theakston, A.L., Lieven, E.V.M. & Tomasello, M. (2006) The Distributed Learning Effect for Children’s Acquisition of an Abstract Grammatical Construction. Cognitive Development 21, 174–193 [pdf]

Gathercole, S.E., Pickering, S.J, Ambridge, B. & Waring, H. (2004) The Structure of Working Memory from 4-15 Years of Age. Developmental Psychology 40(2) 177-190 [pdf]

Ambridge, B. (2004) Experimental Investigations of the Formation and Restriction of Abstract Grammatical Constructions in Young Children. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Manchester [doc]

Book Chapters

  

Ambridge, B. (in press) Paradigms for assessing children’s knowledge of syntax and morphology in E. Hoff (ed.) Guide to Research Methods in Child Language. London: Blackwell-Wiley [doc]


Book Reviews

 

Ambridge, B. (2009a) Review of Ninio, A. (2006) Language and the learning curve: A new theory of Syntactic Development: Oxford: Oxford University Press. Infant and Child Development, 18 102-104. [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B. (2009b) Review of Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M (2005) Action meets word: How children learn verbs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Infant and Child Development, 18 99-101. [pdf]

 

Ambridge, B. (in press) Review of Gulzow and N. Gagarina (Eds). Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the limits of frequency as an explanatory concept. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1017/S0305000909009490. [pdf]

 

Conference Proceedings

 

Ambridge, B., Freudenthal, D., Pine, J.M., Mills, R. Clark, & Rowland, C.F. (2009). Un-learning Un-prefixation Errors . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, July 2009, Manchester, UK [pdf]

 

Submitted Journal Articles (email me for a copy)

   

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F., & Clark, V. (submitted). The roles of entrenchment, semantics and morphophonology in the retreat from argument structure overgeneralization errors. Language