Language Acquisition Lab - Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Crain, S. 2008. The interpretation of disjunction in Universal Grammar. Language and Speech 51(1-2), 151-169.
Crain, S., & Khlentzos, D. 2008. Is logic innate? Biolinguistics 2(1), 24-56.
Thornton, R. 2008. Why continuity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 26(1), 107-146.
Thornton, R., & Tesan, G. 2007. Categorical acquisition: Parameter setting in Universal Grammar. Biolinguistics 1(1), 49-98.
Crain, S., Goro, T. & Thornton, R. 2006. Language acquisition is language change. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35, 31-49.
Crain, S., & Pietroski, P. 2006. Is Generative Grammar deceptively simple or simply deceptive? Lingua, 116, 64-68.
Book Chapters
Crain, S. In Press. Meaning in first language acquisition. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger and P. Portner (Eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (HSK Series). Berlin: Morton de Gruyter.
Crain, S. & Thornton, R. In press. Constraints in language acquisition. In Hogan, P. (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crain, S., Goro, T., & Minai, U. 2007. Hidden units in child language. In A.C. Schalley & D. Khlentzos (Ed.), Mental States. Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature (pp. 275-294). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Thornton, R., Crain, S. & Tesan, G. 2007. Principles, parameters and probability. In Gulzow, I. & Gagarina, N. (Eds.), Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition (SOLA Series). New York, United States: de Gruyter.
Crain, S., & Thornton, R. 2006. Acquisition of syntax and semantics. In M. Traxler & M. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 1073-1110). St Peters, Australia: Elsevier.
Meroni, L., Gualmini, A., & Crain, S. 2006. Everybody knows. In V. van Geenhoven (Ed.), Semantics in Acquisition (pp. 89-114). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Conference Proceedings
Notley, A., Jensen, B. & Ursini, F. In press. [Accepted May 2008]. The early stages of universal quantification. In Otsu, Yukio (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics.
Zhou, P., & Crain, S. In press. [Accepted May 2008]. Scope assignment in Chinese: Why children and adults differ. In Otsu, Yukio (Ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics.
Jensen, B. & Thornton, R. [Submitted October 2007.] Children's answers to wh-questions. To appear in T.J. Curnow (Ed.), Selected papers from the 2007 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Crain, S. 2008. Semantic universals in child and adult language. In Anna Gavarr� and M. Jo�o Freitas (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 143-153.
Jensen, B. & Thornton, R. 2008. Fragments of child grammar. In Anna Gavarr� and M. Jo�o Freitas (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 301-310.
Meroni, L. Gualmini, A., & Crain, S. 2007. The strength of the universal quantifier in child language. In A. Belikova, L. Meroni, & M. Umeda (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America (2nd ed., pp. 277-284). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Goro, T., Minai, U. & Crain, S. 2006. Bringing out the logic in child language. In L. Bateman, & C. Ussery (Eds.), Proceedings of North Eastern Linguistic Society, 35, Vol 1 (pp. 245-256). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Meroni, L., Minai, U., & Crain, S. 2006. If everybody knows, then every child knows. In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico, & I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALSA 2005). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Minai, U., & Crain, S. 2006. Semantic interactions of quantificational expressions in child language. In K.U. Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schultz, & B.D. Schwartz (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4 (pp. 205-216). Cambridge, M.A.: MITWPL.
Minai, U., Goro, T. & Crain, S. 2006. Covert downward entailment in child English and Japanese. In K.U. Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schultz, & B.D. Schwartz (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4 (pp. 217-228). Cambridge, M.A.: MITWPL.
Thornton, R. 2006. Parameter Setting: Universal Grammar or Statistical Learning? In Laughren, M. & Mushin, I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ALS Conference 2006 Brisbane, Australia: ePrintsUQ.