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
- Kidd, E, Arciuli, J, Christiansen, M et al. 2023, 'The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development', Cognitive Development, vol. 66.
- Levshina, N, Namboodiripad, S, Allassonni�re-Tang, M et al. 2023, 'Why we need a gradient approach to word order', Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 825-883.
- Garcia, R, Roeser, J & Kidd, E 2023, 'Finding your voice: Voice-specific effects in Tagalog reveal the limits of word order priming', Cognition, vol. 236, pp. 1-13.
- Defina, R, Allen, S, Davidson, L et al. 2023, 'Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part I: The sketch corpus', Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. SP28, pp. 5-38.
- Defina, R, Allen, S, Davidson, L et al. 2023, 'Sketch Acquisition Manual (SAM), Part II: The acquisition sketch', Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. SP28, pp. 39-86.
- Hellwig, B, Allen, S, Davidson, L et al. 2023, 'Introduction: The acquisition sketch project', Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. SP28, pp. 1-3.
- Fletcher, J, Kidd, E, Stoakes, H et al. 2022, 'Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha', The 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. Rosey Billington, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Canberra, pp. 201-205.
- Perfors, A & Kidd, E 2022, 'The Role of Stimulus-Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning', Cognitive Science, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 1-28.
- Kidd, E & Garcia, R 2022, 'How diverse is child language acquisition research?', First Language, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 703-735.
- Garcia, R & Kidd, E 2022, 'Acquiring verb argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech', Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1855â1906.
- Menks, W, Ekerdt, C, Janzen, G et al. 2022, 'Study protocol: a comprehensive multi-method neuroimaging approach to disentangle developmental effects and individual differences in second language learning', BMC Psychology, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 17.
- Stark, K, Kidd, E & Frost, R 2022, 'Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning', Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 341-373.
- Kidd, E & Garcia, R 2022, 'Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline', First Language, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 837-851.
- Stark, K, Kidd, E & Frost, R 2022, 'The effect of children's prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1045-1071.
- 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.
- Kumarage, S, Donnelly, S & Kidd, E 2022, 'Implicit learning of structure across time: A longitudinal investigation of syntactic priming in young English-acquiring children', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 127, pp. 1-26.
- Hellwig, B, Defina, R, Kidd, E et al. 2021, 'Child language documentation: the sketch acquisition project', Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 25, pp. 29-58.
- 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.
- Kidd, E, Bidgood, A, Donnelly, S et al. 2020, 'Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications', in Caroline Rowland, Anna Theakston, Ben Ambridge, Katherine Twomey (ed.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 189-219.
- 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.
- Cameron-Faulkner, T & Kidd, E 2007, 'I'm are what I'm are: The acquisition of first-person singular present BE', Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
- Kidd, E, Lieven, E & Tomasello, M 2006, 'Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements', Cognitive Development, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 93-107.
- Kidd, E 2004, 'Grammars, parsers, and language acquisition', Journal of Child Language, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 480-483.
- Kidd, E & Bavin, E 2002, 'English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses: Evidence for general-cognitive and language-specific constraints on development', Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 599-617.
- 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)
