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All papers can be downloaded from my personal website: www.benambridge.com
My research focuses on how children learn the grammar of their language; in particular on how they avoid errors with syntax (e.g., “*He giggled me” rather than “He made my giggle”) and morphology (e.g., “*I sitted down” rather than “I sat down”). Recently, I’ve been branching out from English and studying these phenomena in Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, K’iche’ Mayan, Indonesian, Balinese, Mandarin, Finnish, Polish, Estonian, German, Spanish and Lithuanian. I’m also interested in Open Science (I set up the journal Language Development Research) and pop-psychology: I’ve written two books – Psy-Q and Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee - and teach “Psychology in the Real World” on the Psychology BSc programme.
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Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children’s spontaneous production: “What corpus data can tell us?*”: "What corpus data can tell us?*”
McCauley, S. M., Bannard, C., Theakston, A., Davis, M., Cameron-Faulkner, T. & Ambridge, B., 1 Nov 2021, In: Developmental science. 24, 6, p. 1-9 9 p., e13125 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'
Ambridge, B., Tatsumi, T., Doherty, L., Maitreyee, R., Bannard, C., Samanta, S., McCauley, S., Arnon, I., Zicherman, S., Bekman, D., Efrati, A., Berman, R., Narasimhan, B., Sharma, D. M., Nair, R. B., Fukumura, K., Campbell, S., Pye, C., Pedro, P. M. & Pixabaj, S. F. C. & 2 others, , Sept 2020, In: Cognition. 202, 104310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children's and Adults' Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive
Bidgood, A., Pine, J. M., Rowland, C. F. & Ambridge, B., Sept 2020, In: Cognitive Science. 44, 9, p. e12892Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages
Engelmann, F., Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Szreder, M., Ambridge, B., Pine, J. M., Theakston, A. & Lieven, E., 1 May 2019, In: Cognitive Psychology. 110, p. 30-69 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Balancing information-structure and semantic constraints on construction choice: Building a computational model of passive and passive-like constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Liu, L. & Ambridge, B., 1 Sept 2021, In: Cognitive Linguistics. 32, 3, p. 349-388 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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LCD-PSY: Centre for Language, Communication and Developmental Psychology
Ambridge, B. (PI), Theakston, A. (PI), Sturrock, A. (CoI), Kindell, J. (CoI), Buckle, L. (CoI), Ferry, A. (CoI), Freed, J. (CoI), Kandemirci, B. (CoI), Linnert, S. (CoI), Lopez-Perez, B. (CoI), Papastergiou, A. (CoI), Twomey, K. (CoI), Köymen, B. (CoI), Mitchell, C. (CoI), Jensen, K. (CoI), Greenwood-Davies, S. (CoI), Hartshorn, C. (CoI), Ormerod, E. (CoI), Purcell, R. (CoI), Starkey, R. (CoI), Durrant, S. (CoI), Ellis, C. (CoI), Pert, S. (CoI), Waddington, O. (Researcher), Alcock, C. (Researcher), Walibhai, W. (Researcher), Zhang, S. (Researcher), Zhao, C. (Researcher), Leith, K. (PGR student), Ward, L. (PGR student), Price-Williams, D. (PGR student), Benafif, S. (PGR student), Eroglu, H. S. (PGR student), Savill, C. (PGR student), Gregori, F. (PGR student), Manfredi, L. (PGR student), Ozturk Mihci, I. (PGR student), Chen, Y. (PGR student), Ewaida, A. (PGR student), Hu, X. (PGR student), Jackson, K. (PGR student), Kerry, S. (PGR student), Zhang, J. (PGR student), Zhang, R. (PGR student), Chen, S. (PGR student), Breen, S. (PGR student), Ozturk, T. P. (PGR student), Walker-Sharpe, P. (PGR student), Price-Williams, D. (PGR student) & Wood, G. (PGR student)
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