Elena Lieven - Selected Publications#

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1. De Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S. & Lieven, E. (2018) Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences. Cognition. 171, 202-224

2. Theakston, A., & Lieven, E. (2017). Multiunit sequences in first language acquisition. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 588-603.

3. Endesfelder Quick, A., Lieven, E., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English- and German-speaking child. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

4. Lieven, E. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language development: Where do we go from here? Language and Cognition, 8(3), 346-368.

5. Noble, C., Iqbal, F., Lieven, E., & Theakston, A. (2016). Converging and competing cues in the acquisition of syntactic structures: the conjoined agent intransitive. Journal of Child Language, 43(4), 811-842.

6. Köymen, B., Lieven, E., & Brandt, S. (2016). Syntactic and semantic coordination in finite complement-clause constructions: a diary-based case study. Journal of Child Language, 43(01), 22-42.

7. Cameron‐Faulkner, T., Theakston, A., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). The relationship between
infant holdout and gives, and pointing. Infancy, 20(5), 576-586.

8. Ambridge, B., Pine, J. & Lieven, E. (2014) Child language acquisition: Why Universal Grammar doesn’t help. Language 90, 3 (2014) e53-e90.

9. Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. (2014) Familiar verbs are not always easier than novel verbs: How German pre-school children comprehend active and passive
sentences. Cognitive Science, 38, 1, 128-151 DOI:10.1111/cogs.12066

10. 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

11. Theakston, A. L., Maslen, R., Lieven, E. V. M. & Tomasello, M. (2012). The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: a detailed case study. Cognitive Linguistics, 23(1), 91-128. eScholarID:130044 |
[reprinted in: Cognitive Linguistics: The Quantitative Turn. The Essential Reader.(ed. Laura A. Janda). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pps 103-140]]

12. Krajewski,G., Lieven, E. & Theakston, A. (2012) ‘Productivity of a Polish child’s inflectional noun morphology: a naturalistic study’ Morphology 22, 1, 9-34

13.. Ambridge, B. & Lieven, E. (2011) Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting theoretical approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press