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List of works by Elena Lieven

"Frequent frames" in German child-directed speech: a limited cue to grammatical categories

scientific article published in August 2011

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship to Language Development

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

A construction based analysis of child directed speech

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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

Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions

Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task

scientific article published on April 2011

Children use statistics and semantics in the retreat from overgeneralization

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Children's ability to answer different types of questions

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Children's norm enforcement in their interactions with peers

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

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

Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions: Effects of input frequencies, lexical items, and discourse function

scientific article published in 2010

Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach.

scientific article published in May 2003

Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions

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Familiar verbs are not always easier than novel verbs: how German pre-school children comprehend active and passive sentences

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

First language development: a usage-based perspective on past and current research

scientific article published in July 2014

German Children's Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items

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German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences

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German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and variability

scientific article published in January 2011

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

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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

How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study

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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

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

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Keeping it simple: the grammatical properties of shared book reading

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, german, and english child-directed speech

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Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge

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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

Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech

scientific article published on 22 August 2011

Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses

scientific article published in September 2007

Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study

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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

Syntactic and semantic coordination in finite complement-clause constructions: a diary-based case study

scientific article published on 03 February 2015

Teaching versus enforcing game rules in preschoolers' peer interactions

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

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 communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

The constructivist approach

scientific article published in January 2011

The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses

scientific article published in January 2009

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 perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering

scientific article published on November 26, 2010

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

scientific article published in August 2003

Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution

scientific article published on February 2004

Two- and four-year-olds learn to adapt referring expressions to context: effects of distracters and feedback on referential communication

scientific article published on 02 March 2012

What's in a manner of speaking? Children's sensitivity to partner-specific referential precedents.

scientific article published in July 2010

Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study

scientific article published on July 2008

Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers

scientific article published in September 2014

Young children use shared experience to interpret definite reference

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Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories.

scientific article published in June 2005

Young children's understanding of denial

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