The University of Liverpool

Caroline Rowland

PUBLICATIONS Please email crowland@liv.ac.uk for a copy if link not live

 

2016 & 2015

 

Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F. & Freudenthal, D. (in press). Is passive syntax semantically constrained? Evidence from adult grammaticality judgment and comprehension studies. Cognitive Science. PDF

 

Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., Twomey, E., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F. & Freudenthal, D. (2015). Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a construction-general solution to the problem of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123723. OPEN ACCESS

 

Ambridge, B., Kidd, E.J., Rowland, C.F. & Theakston, A.L. (2015). The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition. Journal of Child Language. 42(2), 239-73. Target article plus commentaries. OPEN ACCESS

 

Rowland, C.F., Noble, C.H. & Chan, A. (2015). Competition all the way down: How children learn word order cues to sentence meaning. Invited contribution in B. MacWhinney, A. Malchukov  & E.A . Moravcsik (Eds). Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

 

Rowland, C. F. & Peter, M. (2015).  Up to speed?  Nursery World Magazine, 15 June, 18-20.  PDF

 

Peter, M., Chang, F., Pine, J.M., Blything, R., Rowland, C.F. (2015). When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task. Journal of Memory and Language, 81, 1-15. PDF

 

2014

 

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C.F., Freudenthal, D., & Chang, F. (2014).  Avoiding dative overgeneralization errors: Semantics, statistics or both? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(2), 218-243. PDF

 

Bidgood, A., Ambridge, B., Pine, J.M. & Rowland, C.F. (2014). The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study. PLoS ONE, 9(5), OPEN ACCESS

 

2013

 

Ambridge, B.,  & Rowland, C. F. (2013).  Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4, 149–168. PDF

 

Chang, F., Kidd, E., & Rowland, C. F., (2013) Prediction in processing is a by-product of language learning.  Commentary on Pickering & Garrod: An integrated theory of language production and comprehension. Brain and Behavioral Sciences 36(4), 350-351. PDF

 

Ambridge, B.., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F., Chang, F.  & Bidgood, A. (2013).  The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: Word learning, morphology and verb argument structure. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4, 47–62.  PDF

 

Rowland, C.F. (2013). Understanding Language Acquisition. Routledge: Abingdon. (Full length commissioned book, see above)

 

2012

 

Rowland CF, Chang F, Ambridge B, Pine JM and Lieven EVM (2012) 'The development of abstract syntax: Evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost'. Cognition, 125(1), 49-63. OPEN ACCESS

 

Ambridge B, Pine JM, Rowland CF and Chang F (2012) 'The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument structure overgeneralization errors'. Language, 88(1), 45-81. PDF

 

Ambridge B, Pine JM, and Rowland CF (2012) 'Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors. Cognition, 123, 260-279. PDF

 

 

2011

Rowland, CF and Noble, CH (2011) The role of syntactic structure in children's sentence comprehension: Evidence from the dative. Language Learning and Development, 7(1), 55-75 PDF

 

Noble CF, Rowland CF and Pine JM (2011) Comprehension of argument structure and semantic roles: Evidence from infants and the forced-choice pointing paradigm. Cognitive Science, 35(5), 963–982 PDF

 

Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M, Rowland, C. F. & Clark, V (2011) Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study. Cognitive Linguistics, 22, 303-323. PDF

 

2009

Rowland, C. F. & Theakston, A. L. (2009) The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: A longitudinal elicitation study. Part 2: The modals and auxiliary DO. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52, 1471 – 1492. PDF

 

Theakston, A. L. & Rowland, C. F. (2009) The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: A longitudinal elicitation study. Part 1: Auxiliary BE. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52, 1449-1470. PDF

 

Ambridge B, Pine J M, Rowland C F, Jones R L and 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, 225 – 266. PDF

 

Dabrowska E, Rowland CF and Theakston AL (2009) The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies. Cognitive Linguistics, 20 (3), 571 - 598. PDF

 

Theakston AL and Rowland CF (2009) Introduction to Special Issue: Cognitive approaches to language acquisition. Cognitive Linguistics (Special Issue), 20(3), 477-480. PDF

 

2008

Ambridge B, Pine JM, Rowland CF and Young CR (2008). The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children's and adults' graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors. Cognition, 106(1), 87-129. PDF

 

Ambridge B, Rowland CF and Pine JM (2008) Is structure dependence an innate constraint? New experimental evidence from children's complex-question production. Cognitive Science 32(1), 222-255. PDF

 

2007

Rowland CF (2007) Explaining errors in children's questions. Cognition, 104, 106-134. PDF

 

2006

Rowland, CF and Fletcher, SL (2006) The effect of sampling on estimates of lexical specificity and error rates. Journal of Child Language, 33, 859-877. PDF

 

Theakston AL, Lieven EVM, Pine JM and Rowland CF (2006) Note of clarification on the coding of light verbs in Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax. Journal of Child Language, 3, 191-197. PDF

 

Ambridge, B., Rowland, C. F., Theakston, A., 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, 30, 519-557. PDF

 

2005

Rowland CF, Pine JM, Lieven EVM and Theakston AL (2005) The incidence of error in young children’s wh-questions. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 384-404. PDF

 

Theakston AL, Lieven EVM, Pine JM and Rowland CF (2005) The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE. Cognitive Linguistics, 16, 247-277. PDF

 

Pine JM, Rowland CF, Lieven EVM and Theakston AL (2005) Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model: Why the data on children's use of non-nominative third singular subjects count against the ATOM. Journal of Child Language, 32, 269-289. PDF

 

2004

Theakston AL,Lieven EVM, Pine JM and Rowland CF (2004) Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax. Journal of Child Language,  31, 61-99. PDF

 

2003

Paterson, K. B., Liversedge, S. P., Rowland, C. F. & Filik, R (2003) Children's comprehension of sentences with focus particles. Cognition, 89, 263-294. PDF

 

Rowland CF and Pine JM (2003) Subject-auxiliary inversion errors: a reply to Van Valin (2001). Journal of Child Language, 30, 197-212. PDF

 

Rowland CF, Pine JM, Lieven EVM and Theakston AL (2003) Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: Re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech. Journal of Child Language, 30, 09-635. PDF

 

2002

Theakston AL, Lieven EVM, Pine JM and Rowland CF (2002) Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘Go’. Journal of Child Language, 29, 783-811. PDF

 

2000

Rowland, C. F. (2000). The acquisition of wh-questions in early English mulit-word speech.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Nottingham, UK.

 

2001

Theakston AL, Lieven EVM, Pine JM and Rowland CF (2001) The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account. Journal of Child Language, 28, 27-152. PDF

 

2000

Rowland CF and Pine, JM (2000) Subject-auxiliary inversion errors and wh-question acquisition: what children do know? Journal of Child Language, 27, 157-181. PDF

 

1998

Pine JM, Lieven EVM and Rowland CF (1998) Comparing different models of the development of the English verb category. Linguistics, 36, 807-830. PDF

 

1997

Pine JM, Lieven EVM and Rowland CF (1997) Stylistic variation at the ‘single-word’ stage: Relations between maternal speech characteristics and children’s vocabulary composition and usage. Child Development, 64, 807-819. PDF

 

1996

Pine JM, Lieven EVM and Rowland C (1996) Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition: What do they mean? Journal of Child Language, 25, 573-589. PDF

 

 

 

 

 

 

USEFUL LINKS

 

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TEXT BOOK

 

Understanding Child Language Acquisition

 

 

 

 

THIS WEBSITE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. CAROLINE ROWLAND HASMOVED TO THE MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

 

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