Ben Ambridge

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Child language acquisitionEarly English languagesLinguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
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Publications (9)

|Jun 30, 2026
Mutually assured disruption: why LLMs change the game for child language acquisition research, and vice versa.

|Aug 07, 2025
Why learners privilege word-order over case-marking: A cross-linguistic meta-analysis, new data from Estonian, Finnish and Polish, and a discriminative learning model.

Joanna Kolak, Virve Vihman, Felix Engelmann

|Jun 06, 2024
Learners restrict their linguistic generalizations using preemption but not entrenchment: Evidence from artificial-language-learning studies with adults and children.

Anna Samara, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Gaurav Saxena

|Sep 01, 2023
Children learn ergative case marking in Hindi using statistical preemption and clause-level semantics (intentionality): evidence from acceptability judgment and elicited production studies with children and adults.

Ramya Maitreyee, Gaurav Saxena, Bhuvana Narasimhan

|Aug 30, 2023
Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K'iche'.

Ben Ambridge, Laura Doherty, Ramya Maitreyee

|Jun 01, 2021
Multiword units lead to errors of commission in children's spontaneous production: "What corpus data can tell us?*".

Stewart M McCauley, Colin Bannard, Anna Theakston

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