Ben Ambridge

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ben Ambridge is involved.

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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.

Ambridge, Ben and Chloe Ambridge 2020 The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors: A review and diary study 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. 113–130 | Chapter

This chapter summarises research on how children avoid overgeneralizations of verb argument structure, focussing on the transitive-causative construction (e.g. *I’m dancing it [c.f. I’m making it dance]). It then presents some new data that bear on this issue: diary data of these types of… read more

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

Ambridge, Ben, Micah B. Goldwater and Elena Lieven 2018 Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 177–196 | Chapter

This chapter reports an experimental study in which children aged 4;9–6;1 were taught two novel constructions with meanings of enabling/helping and preventing/stopping with OSV and VOS word order. The aim was to test Tomasello’s (2003) proposal that children form abstract constructions by… read more

Ambridge, Ben 2013  Just who didn’t eat what, exactly? Negation and universal quantification in the real world Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady, pp. 287–288 | Commentary