Samantha Durrant
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samantha Durrant is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 4. Explaining individual differences in children’s vocabulary growth: Insights from the Language 0–5 Project Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens, Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer (eds.), pp. 111–140 | Chapter
Our goal in this chapter was to test a usage-based computational model of vocabulary learning (CLASSIC). CLASSIC simulates variation in vocabulary growth as a product of interactions between linguistic input quantity and the child’s current knowledge state, using an associative learning… read more
2020 Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 189–219 | Chapter
Much of Lieven’s pioneering work has helped move the study of individual differences to the centre of child language research. The goal of the present chapter is to illustrate how the study of individual differences provides crucial insights into the language acquisition process. In part one, we… read more