Caroline F. Rowland

List of John Benjamins publications in which Caroline F. Rowland is involved.

Book series

Trends in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Shanley E.M. Allen and Evan Kidd

ISSN 1569-0644

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.

Rowland, Caroline F., Gary Jones, Michelle. Peter, Amy Bidgood, Andrew Jessop, Samantha Durrant, Paula Stinson and Julian M. Pine 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

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

Kidd, Evan, Amy Bidgood, Seamus Donnelly, Samantha Durrant, Michelle S. Peter and Caroline F. Rowland 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

Rowland, Caroline F. 2018 The principles of scientific inquiry Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 770–775 | Commentary

Rowland, Caroline F., Sarah L. Fletcher and Daniel Freudenthal 2008 How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from naturalistic samples Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Article