Professor Evan Kidd
Areas of expertise
- Psychology 1701
- Linguistics 2004
- Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) 170204
Research interests
Psycholinguistics (Language Acquisition & Language Processing); Developmental Psychology; Social Cognition.
Biography
I was awarded my BBSc(Hons) in 1999 and my PhD (Psycholinguistics) in 2004, both from La Trobe University. Over my career I have worked at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The University of Manchester, and La Trobe University. I came to the ANU in 2012, originally working in the Research School of Psychology. In 2022 I moved over to SLLL to take up a position as Professor of Linguistics.
My research is in psycholinguistics. I work both on language acquisition (inc. first language acquisition, bilingualism, & second language acquisition) and adult language processing. My recent research has focused on individual differences in language acquisition and use, the relationship between language acquisition and on-line sentence processing in crosslinguistic perspective, and the influence of typological diversity on sentence planning and production. Accordingly, my research group works on several typologically-diverse languages. I also have a keen interest in how language interfaces with other social and cognitive processes. Along these lines, over the past 10 years or so my students and I have been investigating the relationship between language acquisition and symbolic play.
Researcher's projects
Current Grants
2021 – 2024: How free is free? Word order in Australian indigenous languages. (Funding body: ARC, $AUD321,000) (CIs: Rachel Nordlinger, Evan Kidd, Ina Bornkessel-Scheslewsky, Matthias Scheslewsky).
Past grants
2014 - 2022: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language ($AUD28 million).
2016 – 2020: Discovering sources of individual differences in first language acquisition. (Funding body: ARC, $AUD274,000) (CIs: Evan Kidd, Joanne Arciuli, Michael Smithson)
2016 – 2017: What lurks beneath: using electroencephalography (EEG) to study psychological processes in special populations (Funding body: ANU MEC grant, $70,000) (CIs: Evan Kidd, Michael Kyrios, Deborah Apthorp, Bruce Christensen)
2012: Our Aussie Lingo: How and Why we use Australian Diminutives (Funding Body: Australian Geographic: $AUD1771). Nenagh Kemp (UTas) & Evan Kidd (ANU).
2012 – 2013: Language socialisation and the transmission of Qaqet Baining (Papua New Guinea): Towards a documentation project. (Funding body: Endangered Languages Documentation Project (UK): £8406). Birgit Helliwig (La Trobe) & Evan Kidd (ANU).
2010 – 2012: Language processing in children with high functioning autism: Evidence from eye tracking. (Funding body: ARC, $AUD150K). Edith Bavin (La Trobe), Cheryl Dissanayake (La Trobe), Evan Kidd (ANU), Margot Prior (UMelb).
2008 – 2011: Charles La Trobe Research Fellowship, La Trobe University ($AUD 250K).
2007 – 2009: Investigating the memory systems that support the acquisition of morphology: evidence from Finnish (Funding body: ESRC: £93K). (CI: Evan Kidd).
2007 – 2008: Investigating the memory systems responsible for syntactic priming during language acquisition. (Funding body: The Nuffield Foundation: £6, 440). (CI: Evan Kidd).
2006 – 2007: The influence of readers’ goals on the online construction and updating of situation models. (CIs: Andrew Stewart, Evan Kidd, ESRC, £39K).
2006 – 2007: What exactly do preferential looking studies measure? Eye-tracking as a more sensitive measure of young children’s knowledge of argument structure. (Funding body: The Royal Society, £15K). (CI: Evan Kidd).
2006: An investigation of the memory mechanisms underlying the acquisition of past tense morphology (Funding body: The British Academy, £6, 777). (CI: Evan Kidd, co-applicant: Jarrad Lum).
2006: Leonardo da Vinci travel grant to support fieldwork in Romania (£1485.62).
Publications
- Nordlinger, R, Rodriguez, G & Kidd, E 2022, 'Sentence planning and production in Murrinhpatha, an Australian free word order language', Language (Washington), vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 187-220.
- Goodhew, S, Reynolds, K, Edwards, M et al. 2021, 'The Content of Gender Stereotypes Embedded in Language Use', Journal of Language and Social Psychology, vol. 41, no. 2.
- Stark, K, Kidd, E & Frost, R 2021, 'Word Segmentation Cues in German Child-Directed Speech: A Corpus Analysis', Language and Speech, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
- Garcia, R, Rodriguez, G & Kidd, E 2021, 'Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog', Cognition, vol. 216.
- Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2021, 'Onset Neighbourhood Density Slows Lexical Access in High Vocabulary 30-Month Olds', Cognitive Science, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1-19.
- Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2021, 'On the Structure and Source of Individual Differences in Toddlers' Comprehension of Transitive Sentences', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, pp. 1-17.
- Chan, A, Matthews, S, Tse, N et al. 2021, 'Revisiting Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Production of Cantonese Relative Clauses: Evidence From Elicited Production in 3-Year-Olds', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, p. 16.
- Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2021, 'The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development', Child Development, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 609 - 625
- Isbilen, E, McCauley, S, Kidd, E et al. 2020, 'Statistically Induced Chunking Recall: A Memory-Based Approach to Statistical Learning', Cognitive Science, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1-32.
- Garcia, R & Kidd, E 2020, 'The Acquisition of the Tagalog Symmetrical Voice System: Evidence from Structural Priming', Language Learning and Development, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 399-425.
- Yang, W, Chan, A, Chang, F et al. 2020, 'Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's online comprehension of relative clauses', Cognition, vol. 196.
- Goodhew, S & Kidd, E 2020, 'Bliss is blue and bleak is grey: Abstract word-colour associations influence objective performance even when not task relevant', Acta Psychologica, vol. 206, no. Online, pp. -.
- Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2020, 'Individual differences in lexical processing efficiency and vocabulary in toddlers: A longitudinal investigation', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 192.
- Kidd, E & Donnelly, S 2020, 'Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition', Annual Review of Linguistics , vol. 6, pp. 319-340.
- Quinn, S & Kidd, E 2019, 'Symbolic play promotes non-verbal communicative exchange in infant-caregiver dyads', British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 33-50.
- Tsoi, Y, Yang, W, Chan, A et al 2019, 'Mandarin-English speaking bilingual and Mandarin speaking monolingual children's comprehension of relative clauses', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 933-964.
- Cattani, A, Floccia, C, Kidd, E et al 2019, 'Gestures and Words in Naming: Evidence From Crosslinguistic and Crosscultural Comparison', Language Learning: a journal of research in language studies, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 709-746.
- Wu, Q, Kidd, E & Goodhew, S 2019, 'The spatial mapping of concepts in English and Mandarin', Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 703-724.
- McKone, E, Wan, L, Pidcock, M et al. 2019, 'A critical period for faces: Other-race face recognition is improved by childhood but not adult social contact', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 0.
- Kidd, E, Junge, C, Spokes, T et al. 2018, 'Individual Differences in Infant Speech Segmentation: Achieving the Lexical Shift', Infancy, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 770-794pp.
- Kidd, E, Donnelly, S & Christiansen, M 2018, 'Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 154-169pp.
- Kalashnikova, M, Escudero, P & Kidd, E 2018, 'The development of fast-mapping and novel word retention strategies in monolingual and bilingual infants', Developmental Science, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 11pp.
- Quinn, S, Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2018, 'The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review', Developmental Review, vol. 49, pp. 121-135.
- Chan, A, Yang, W, Chang, F et al 2018, 'Four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of relative clauses: a permutation analysis', Journal of Child Language, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 174-203.
- Brandt, S, Nitschke, S & Kidd, E 2017, 'Priming the Comprehension of German Object Relative Clauses', Language Learning and Development, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1-21pp.
- Kirjavainen, M, Kidd, E & Lieven, E 2017, 'How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish', Journal of Child Language, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 120-157.
- Isbilen, E, McCauley, S, Kidd, E et al. 2017, 'Testing Statistical Learning Implicitly: A Novel Chunk-based Measure of Statistical Learning', 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.
- Kirkham, J & Kidd, E 2017, 'The Effect of Steiner, Montessori, and National Curriculum Education Upon Children's Pretence and Creativity', Journal of Creative Behavior, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 20-34.
- Travis, Catherine E., Torres Cacoullos, Rena & Kidd, Evan 2017, 'Cross-language priming: A view from bilingual speech', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 20(2): 283-298.
- Kidd, E & Arciuli, J 2016, 'Individual Differences in Statistical Learning Predict Children's Comprehension of Syntax', Child Development, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 184-193.
- Bavin, E, Prendergast, L, Kidd, E et al 2016, 'Online processing of sentences containing noun modification in young children with high-functioning autism', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 137-147.
- Kidd, E, Kemp, N, Kashima, E et al 2016, 'Language, Culture, and Group Membership: An Investigation Into the Social Effects of Colloquial Australian English', Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 713-733.
- Goodhew, S & Kidd, E 2016, 'The conceptual cueing database: Rated items for the study of the interaction between language and attention', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 1004-1007.
- Bavin, E, Kidd, E, Prendergast, L et al 2016, 'Young children with ASD use lexical and referential information during on-line sentence processing', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, no. 171, pp. 171-171.
- Stagnitti, K, Bailey, A, Stevenson, E et al 2016, 'An investigation into the effect of play-based instruction on the development of play skills and oral language', Journal of Early Childhood Research, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 389-406pp.
- Kidd, E, Tennant, E & Nitschke, S 2015, 'Shared abstract representation of linguistic structure in bilingual sentence comprehension', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1062-1067.
- Ambridge, B, Kidd, E, Rowland, C et al 2015, 'The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition', Journal of Child Language, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 239-273.
- Kidd, E 2015, 'Incorporating learning into theories of parsing', Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 487-493.
- Kelly, B, Kidd, E & Wigglesworth, G 2015, 'Indigenous children's language: Acquisition, preservation and evolution of language in minority contexts', First Language, vol. 35, no. 4-5, pp. 279-285.
- Kidd, E, Chan, A & Chiu, J 2015, 'Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous Cantonese-English bilingual children's comprehension of relative clauses', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 438-452.
- Rahmany, R, Marefat, H & Kidd, E 2014, 'Resumptive elements aid comprehension of object relative clauses: Evidence from Persian', Journal of Child Language, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 937-948.
- Bavin, E, Kidd, E, Prendergast, L et al 2014, 'Severity of Autism is Related to Children's Language Processing', Autism Research, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 687-694.
- Kashima, Y, Kashima, E & Kidd, E 2014, 'Language and Culture', in Thomas M Holtgraves (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Language and Social Psychology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 46-61.
- Nitschke, S, Serratrice, L & Kidd, E 2014, 'The effect of linguistic nativeness on structural priming in comprehension', Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 525-542.
- Goodhew, S, Sinclair, B & Kidd, E 2014, 'Why is the sunny side always up? Explaining the spatial mapping of concepts by language use', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1287-1293.
- Kirkham, J, Stewart, A & Kidd, E 2013, 'Concurrent and longitudinal relationships between development in graphic, language and symbolic play domains from the fourth to the fifth year', Infant and Child Development, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 297-319.
- Hall, S, Rumney, L, Holler, J et al 2013, 'Associations among play, gesture and early spoken language acquisition', First Language, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 294-312.
- Kidd, E 2013, 'The Role of Verbal Working Memory in Children's Sentence Comprehension A Critical Review', Topics in Language Disorders, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 208-223.
- Chang, F, Kidd, E & Rowland, C 2013, 'Prediction in processing is a by-product of language learning', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 350-351.
- Kidd, E, Bavin, E & Brandt, S 2013, 'The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor', in Dirk Geeraerts & John R Taylor (ed.), Lexical Bootstrapping: The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development, De Gruyter Mouton, Germany, pp. 217-244.
- Boyle, W, Lindell, A & Kidd, E 2013, 'Investigating the role of verbal working memory in young children's sentence comprehension', Language Learning, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 211-242.
- Kidd, E., Bavin, E. L., & Brandt, S. (2013). The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor. In D. Bittner & N. Ruhlig (Eds.), Lexical Bootstrapping: The role of lexis and semantics in child language development (pp. 217 - 244). Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Lindell, A., & Kidd, E. (2013). Consumers Favor "Right Brain" Training: The Dangerous Lure of Neuromarketing, Mind, Brain, and Education, vol. 7, 35-39.
- Brandt, S, Nitschke, S & Kidd, E 2012, 'Experience and Processing of Relative Clauses in German', Annual Boston Conference on Language Development 2011, ed. A K Biller, E Y Chung, A E Kimball, Cascadilla Press, USA, pp. 1-14.
- Kirjavainen, M, Nikolaev, A & Kidd, E 2012, 'The effect of frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on the acquisition of past tense verbs by Finnish children', Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 273-315.
- Kidd, E 2012, 'Individual differences in syntactic priming in language acquisition', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 393-418.
- Kidd, E 2012, 'Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax', Developmental Psychology, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 171-184.
- Lum, J., & Kidd, E. 2012, 'An examination of the associations among multiple memory systems, past tense, and vocabulary in typically developing 5-year-old children', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 989-1006.
- Rahmany, R, Marefat, H & Kidd, E 2011, 'Persian speaking children's acquisition of relative clauses', European Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 367-388.
- Reynolds, E, Stagnitti, K & Kidd, E 2011, 'Play, language and social skills of children attending a play-based curriculum school and a traditionally structured classroom curriculum school in low socioeconomic areas', Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 120-130.
- Kidd, E, Stewart, A & Serratrice, L 2011, 'Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: The role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery', Journal of Child Language, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 222-234.
- Lindell, A & Kidd, E 2011, 'Why Right-Brain Teaching is Half-Witted: A Critique of the Misapplication of Neuroscience to Education', Mind, Brain, and Education, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 121-127.
- Hutton, J & Kidd, E 2011, 'Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences: In search of a frequency x regularity interaction', in Evan Kidd (ed.), The Acquisition of Relative Clauses, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 227-242.
- Brandt, S & Kidd, E 2011, 'Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension', in Doris Schonefeld (ed.), Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 273-292.
- Kidd, E, Kemp, N & Quinn, S 2011, 'Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics', Language Sciences, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 359-368.
- Kidd, E & Kirjavainen, M 2011, 'Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish', Language and Cognitive Processes, vol. 26, no. 4-6, pp. 794-829.
- Kidd, E, ed., 2011, The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
- Kidd, E, Lieven, E & Tomasello, M 2010, 'Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements', Language Sciences, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 132-142.
- Nitschke, S, Kidd, E & Serratrice, L 2010, 'First language transfer and long-term structural priming in comprehension', Language and Cognitive Processes, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 94-114.
- Kidd, E, Rogers, P & Rogers, C 2010, 'The personality correlates of adults who had imaginary companions in childhood', Psychological Reports, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 163-172.
- Lum, J, Kidd, E, Davis, S et al 2010, 'Longitudinal study of declarative and procedural memory in primary school-aged children', Australian Journal of Psychology, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 139-148.
- Davies, R, Kidd, E & Lander, K 2009, 'Investigating the psycholinguistic correlates of speechreading in preschool age children', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 164-174.
- Stewart, A, Haigh, M & Kidd, E 2009, 'An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 2113-2125.
- Kidd, E & Holler, J 2009, 'Children's use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity', Developmental Science, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 903-913.
- Stewart, A, Kidd, E & Haigh, M 2009, 'Early sensitivity to discourse-level anomalies: Evidence from self-paced reading', Discourse Processes, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 46-69.
- Brandt, S, Kidd, E, Lieven, E et al 2009, 'The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses', Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 539-570.
- Kidd, E & Cameron-Faulkner, T 2008, 'The acquisition of the multiple senses of with', Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 33-61.
- Lum, J & Kidd, E 2008, 'Sex differences in past tense overregularization', Developmental Science, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 882-889.
- Roby, A & Kidd, E 2008, 'The referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions', Developmental Science, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 531-540.
- Kidd, E. (2012). Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax. Developmental Psychology, 48, 171 - 184.
- Kidd, E. (2012). Individual differences in syntactic priming in language acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 393 - 418.
- Kidd, E., & Kirjavainen, E. (2011). Investigating the contribution of procedural and declarative memory to the acquisition of past tense morphology: Evidence from Finnish. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 794 - 829.
- Kidd, E., Stewart, A., & Serratrice, L. (2011). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: The role of the referential scene in garden path recovery. Journal of Child Language, 38, 222 - 234.
- Kidd, E., Kemp, N., & Quinn, S. (2011). Did you have a choccie bickie this arvo? A quantitative look at Australian hypocoristics. Language Sciences, 33, 359 -368.
- Lindell, A., & Kidd, E. (2011). Why right-brain teaching is half-witted: A critique of the misapplication of neuroscience to education. Mind, Brain, & Education, 5, 121 - 127.
- Ramany, R., Marefat, H., & Kidd, E. (2011). Persian-speaking children's acquisition of relative clauses. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 367-388.
- Kidd, E. (Ed.) (2011). The acquisition of relative clauses: typology, processing, & function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
- Hutton, J., & Kidd, E. (2011). Structural priming in comprehension of relative clauses: In search of a frequency by regularity interaction. In E. Kidd (Ed.), The acquisition of relative clauses: typology, processing, and function (pp. 227 - 242). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Brandt, S. & Kidd, E. (2011). Relative Clause Acquisition and Representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension. In D. Schoenefeld (Ed.), Converging evidence discussing and extending the methodological tool- kit of the linguist (pp. 273 - 292). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Nitschke, S., Kidd, E., & Serratrice, L. (2010). First language transfer and long- term structural priming in comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 94-114.
- Kidd, E., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2010). Lexical frequency and exemplar- based learning effects in language acquisition: Evidence from sentential complements. Language Sciences, 32, 132 -142.
- Kidd, E., Rogers, P., & Rogers, C. (2010). The personality correlates of adults who had imaginary companions in childhood. Psychological Reports, 107, 163-172.
- Kidd, E., & Holler, J. (2009). Childen's use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity. Developmental Science, 12, 903-913.
- Brandt, S., Kidd, E., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2009). The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses. Cognitive Linguistics, 20, 539-570.
- Stewart, A., Haigh, M., & Kidd, E. (2009). An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2113-2125.
- Stewart, A., Kidd, E., & Haigh, M. (2009). Discourse-level inconsistencies in text processing: evidence for an early sensitivity. Discourse Processes, 46, 46-69.
- Kidd, E., & Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2008). The acquisition of the multiple senses of with. Linguistics, 46, 33-62.
- Kidd, E., & Lum, J. (2008). Sex differences in past tense overregularalization. Developmental Science, 11, 882-889.
- Roby, A., & Kidd, E. (2008). The referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions. Developmental Science, 11, 531-540.
- Cameron-Faulkner, T., & Kidd, E. (2007). I'm are what I'm are: the acquisition of 1PS-present BE. Cognitive Linguistics, 18, 1-22.
- Kidd, E., & Bavin, E. L. (2007). Lexical and referential constraints on on-line spoken language comprehension: A comparison of adults and primary-school age children. First Language, 27, 29-52.
- Kidd, E., Brandt, S., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Object relatives made easy: A crosslinguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 860-897.
- Stewart, A., Holler, J., & Kidd, E. (2007). Shallow processing of ambiguous pronouns: Evidence for delay. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1680-1696.
- Kidd, E. (2006). The acquisition of complement clause constructions. In E. V. Clark & B. F. Kelly (Eds.), Constructions in acquisition (pp. 311-331). Stanford, CA:CSLI Publications.
- Kidd, E., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Examining the role of lexical frequency in children's acquisition of sentential complements. Cognitive Development, 21, 93 -107.
- Kidd, E. & Bavin, E. L. (2005). Lexical and referential cues to interpretation: An investigation of children's interpretations of ambiguous sentences. Journal of Child Language, 32, 855-876.
- Kidd, E. & Bavin, E. L. (2002). English-speaking children's understanding of relative clauses: Evidence for general-cognitive and language-specific constraints on development. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31, 599-617.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Discovering sources of individual differences in first language acquisition (Primary Investigator)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) (Secondary Investigator)
