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List of works by Anna L. Theakston

A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.

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Can input explain children's me-for-I errors?

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

Can the attention training technique turn one marshmallow into two? Improving children's ability to delay gratification

scientific article published on 22 November 2015

Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'.

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Converging and competing cues in the acquisition of syntactic structures: the conjoined agent intransitive

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech

scientific article published on August 2003

Errors of Omission in English-Speaking Children's Production of Plurals and the Past Tense: The Effects of Frequency, Phonology, and Competition.

scientific article published in November 2006

Exploring early communicative behaviours: A fine-grained analysis of infant shows and gives.

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

French children's use and correction of weird word orders: A constructivist account

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Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb 'go'.

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Handling agents and patients: representational cospeech gestures help children comprehend complex syntactic constructions.

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Iconicity affects children's comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences.

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Intention or Attention Before Pointing: Do Infants' Early Holdout Gestures Reflect Evidence of a Declarative Motive?

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Interactions between givenness and clause order in children's processing of complex sentences

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Multiunit Sequences in First Language Acquisition.

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Note of clarification on the coding of light verbs in 'Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax' (Journal of Child Language 31, 61-99).

scientific article published on February 2006

Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accounts

Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax.

scientific article published on February 2004

Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations: lexical and structural priming of syntactic constructions in young children

scientific article published on November 2003

Testing the agreement/tense omission model: why the data on children's use of non-nominative 3psg subjects count against the ATOM.

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The Effects of Animacy and Syntax on Priming: A Developmental Study

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

The Role of Animacy in Children's Interpretation of Relative Clauses in English: Evidence From Sentence-Picture Matching and Eye Movements

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

The acquisition of auxiliaries BE and HAVE: an elicitation study.

scientific article published on August 2005

The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: a longitudinal elicitation study. Part 1: auxiliary BE.

scientific article published in December 2009

The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: a longitudinal elicitation study. Part 2: the modals and auxiliary DO

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

The incidence of error in young children's Wh-questions

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

The influence of discourse context on children's provision of auxiliary BE.

scientific article published on February 2008

The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order

article published in 2005

The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English.

scientific article published in August 2003

The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

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What part of no do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation.

scientific article published in May 2007

Young children's understanding of denial

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