Evan Kidd
List of John Benjamins publications in which Evan Kidd is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1569-0644
Title
The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function
Edited by Evan Kidd
Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 8] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
2026 Chapter 22. The acquisition of symmetrical voice systems: Comparative notes on Tagalog, Indonesian, and Totoli The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 610–641 | Chapter
Language documentation has the broad aim of building a representative evidence base across typologically diverse languages and contexts of use. One such context that is gaining increased attention is language acquisition, owing to its importance in language maintenance in an era of significant… 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
2011 Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, Schönefeld, Doris (ed.), pp. 273–292 | Article
According to usage-based approaches, representations and processing of linguistic constructions emerge from usage events. We present corpus data, which show that object relative clauses are mostly attached to an inanimate head NP and contain a pronominal subject (the ball that he just threw). In… read more
2011 Chapter 9. Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences: In search of a frequency x regularity interaction. The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 227–242 | Article
The current chapter discusses a structural priming experiment that investigated the on-line processing of English subject- and object- relative clauses. Sixty-one monolingual English-speaking adults participated in a self-paced reading experiment where they read prime-target pairs that fully… read more
2011 Introduction. The acquisition of relative clauses: Processing, typology, and function The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, Kidd, Evan (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article