Katherine E. Twomey

List of John Benjamins publications in which Katherine E. Twomey is involved.

Title

Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn

Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.

Articles

Ambridge, Ben, Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston and Katherine E. Twomey 2020 Introduction 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. 1–7 | Chapter

Twomey, Katherine E. and Angelo Cangelosi 2020 Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: What developmental robotics can tell us about language acquisition 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. 39–64 | Chapter

Decades of research have brought us a long way in understanding the many factors that affect language acquisition. However, while a wealth of empirical studies have characterised children’s language learning behaviours, from pre-speech to syntax, until relatively recently researchers have been… read more

Twomey, Katherine E., Anthony F. Morse, Angelo Cangelosi and Jessica S. Horst 2016 Children’s referent selection and word learning: Insights from a developmental robotic system Interaction Studies 17:1, pp. 101–127 | Article

It is well-established that toddlers can correctly select a novel referent from an ambiguous array in response to a novel label. There is also a growing consensus that robust word learning requires repeated label-object encounters. However, the effect of the context in which a novel object is… read more