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PhD Cognitive Psychology Stanford University
Masters Cognitive Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Caroline F. Rowland is a British psychologist known for her work on child first language development, grammar acquisition, and the role of environment in child's language growth. Since 2016, she has been the Director of the Language Development Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She holds the position of Professor of First Language Acquisition by Special Appointment at Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has also been an Honorary Research Associate in Psychological Sciences at University of Liverpool since 2018.

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The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account. (2001) (374)
The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition* (2015) (278)
The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors (2008) (188)
The development of abstract syntax: Evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost (2012) (170)
Comparing different models of the development of the English verb category (1998) (166)
Subject–auxiliary inversion errors and wh-question acquisition: ‘what children do know?’ (2000) (157)
Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech (2003) (144)
Explaining errors in children’s questions (2007) (128)
Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax. (2004) (128)
The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE (2005) (89)
Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition: what do they mean? (1996) (89)
The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors (2012) (89)
Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors (2012) (84)
The impact of shared book reading on children's language skills: A meta-analysis (2019) (83)
The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure. (2013) (81)
Comprehension of Argument Structure and Semantic Roles: Evidence from English-Learning Children and the Forced-Choice Pointing Paradigm (2011) (78)
Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both? (2014) (76)
Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘go’ (2002) (75)
When and how do children develop knowledge of verb argument structure? Evidence from verb bias effects in a structural priming task (2015) (68)
Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: ‘What experimental data can tell us?’ (2006) (67)
The effect of sampling on estimates of lexical specificity and error rates (2006) (60)
The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies (2009) (56)
Children's comprehension of sentences with focus particles (2003) (56)
A Semantics-Based Approach to the "No Negative Evidence" Problem (2009) (55)
A thorough evaluation of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system (2019) (53)
Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex-Question Production (2008) (52)
The incidence of error in young children's Wh-questions. (2005) (50)
Diversity not quantity in caregiver speech: Using computational modeling to isolate the effects of the quantity and the diversity of the input on vocabulary growth (2017) (49)
Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition. (2013) (48)
Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study (2011) (43)
The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: a longitudinal elicitation study. Part 2: the modals and auxiliary DO. (2009) (43)
The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: a longitudinal elicitation study. Part 1: auxiliary BE. (2009) (39)
Vocabulary of 2-Year-Olds Learning English and an Additional Language: Norms and Effects of Linguistic Distance (2018) (39)
Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model: why the data on children's use of non-nominative 3psg subjects count against the ATOM (2005) (38)
Understanding Child Language Acquisition (2013) (38)
Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a Construction-General Solution to the Problem of the Retreat from Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization (2015) (36)
How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from naturalistic samples (2008) (34)
Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies (2015) (33)
Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage. (1997) (33)
Combining Language Corpora With Experimental and Computational Approaches for Language Acquisition Research (2017) (32)
Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers? (2019) (32)
Do two and three year old children use an incremental first-NP-as-agent bias to process active transitive and passive sentences?: A permutation analysis (2017) (31)
Predicting children's errors with negative questions: Testing a schema-combination account (2009) (29)
The Role of Syntactic Structure in Children's Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From the Dative (2010) (29)
The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of ’mixed‘ verb-argument structure at Stage 1 (2000) (22)
Do the Eyes Have It? A Systematic Review on the Role of Eye Gaze in Infant Language Development (2021) (21)
The development of inversion in wh-questions: a reply to Van Valin (2003) (19)
The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study (2014) (18)
Prediction in processing is a by-product of language learning (2013) (14)
COVID-19 first lockdown as a unique window into language acquisition: What you do (with your child) matters. (2021) (14)
Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020) (12)
Vocabulary of 2-year-olds learning English and an additional language: norms and effects of linguistic distance. V:GENERAL DISCUSSION (2018) (12)
Comprehension of argument structure and semantic roles: Evidence from infants and the forced-choice pointing paradigm (2009) (11)
The UK communicative development inventories: Words and gestures (2020) (9)
Can inferencing be trained in preschoolers using shared book-reading? A randomised controlled trial of parents' inference-eliciting questions on oral inferencing ability. (2019) (9)
The Impact of Interactive Shared Book Reading on Children's Language Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (2020) (9)
Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children's and Adults' Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive (2020) (9)
Do children learn from their prediction mistakes? A registered report evaluating error-based theories of language acquisition (2020) (9)
Barriers and solutions to participation in family-based education interventions (2019) (8)
III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT. (2018) (8)
Chunks of phonological knowledge play a significant role in children’s word learning and explain effects of neighborhood size, phonotactic probability, word frequency and word length (2021) (7)
Introduction to Special Issue: Cognitive approaches to language acquisition (2009) (7)
The Language 0-5 Project (2018) (7)
I: INTRODUCTION. (2018) (6)
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming (2021) (6)
Story choice matters for caregiver extra-textual talk during shared reading with preschoolers. (2019) (5)
Web-CDI: A system for online administration of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (2021) (5)
Improving the robustness of infant lexical processing speed measures (2019) (5)
Unlearning un-prefixation errors (2009) (4)
Aligning Developmental and Processing Accounts of Implicit and Statistical Learning (2018) (4)
The use and non-use of auxiliary BE (2000) (4)
The CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Atypical Communication Expertise (2020) (4)
Teaching the unlearnable: a training study of complex yes/no questions (2020) (4)
Review of M. Tomasello (Ed.) (2003). The new psychology of language: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure, Vol. 2. (2003) (3)
The principles of scientific inquiry (2018) (3)
Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition (2020) (3)
Overgeneralization in Language Acquisition (2009) (3)
Evaluating the effectiveness of a ‘real-world’ shared reading intervention for preschool children and their families: A randomised controlled trial. (2018) (3)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a ‘Real‐World' Shared Reading Intervention for Preschool Children and Their Families: A Randomised Controlled Trial (2020) (3)
Authors' response (2015) (2)
Visual sequence learning and language development: Evidence for a domain-general learning mechanism? (2019) (2)
Construction and standardisation of the UK Communicative Development Inventory (UK-CDI ), Words and Gestures (2016) (2)
Review of Brent, M.R. (Ed). (1997). Computational approaches to language acquisition. (1999) (2)
Evaluating Word Embeddings for Language Acquisition (2020) (2)
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: Grammaticality judgments, production priming and a meta-analytic synthesis (2018) (2)
Subject-auxiliary inversion errors: a reply to Van Valin (2001) (2003) (1)
Learning the meaning of words (2013) (1)
Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? (2019) (1)
The grammatical acquisition of wh-questions in early English multi-word speech (2000) (1)
'Review of Dabrowska, E. (2004). Language, mind and brain: Some psychological and neurological constraints on theories of grammar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press' (2007) (1)
Do children learn from their prediction mistakes? Evaluating error-based theories of language acquisition (2020) (1)
Comprehension of Argument Structure: Evidence from Infants and the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm (2009) (1)
Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? (2019) (1)
Explaining individual variation (2013) (1)
'It's a big world': understanding the factors guiding early vocabulary development in bilinguals (2016) (1)
The effect of language-focused professional development on the knowledge and behaviour of preschool practitioners (2018) (1)
Up to speed (2015) (0)
Explaining individual differences in language acquisition [invited talk] (2019) (0)
Children’s language development - what can researchers do to help practitioners? [invited talk] (2017) (0)
Directions: How Do Children Acquire Language? (2019) (0)
Gesture screening in young infants: Highly sensitive to risk factors for communication delay (2017) (0)
Language development at the MPI for Psycholinguistics [Invited talk] (2017) (0)
Why do children differ in the speed with which they learn language? [invited talk] (2019) (0)
M.R. Brent,Computational approaches to language acquisition Cambridge, MA:Cambridge University Press ,2003 0262522292 (1999) (0)
Exploring the relationship between infants' statistical learning ability and language development (2018) (0)
Note of clarification on the coding of light verbs in 'Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax' (Journal of Child Language 31, 61-99). (2006) (0)
Learning complex questions from the input (2016) (0)
Symbolic play and language development in the Language 0-5 project (2018) (0)
Improving the robustness of infant lexical processing speed measures (2020) (0)
Key issues and future directions: How do children acquire language? (2019) (0)
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development (2021) (0)
Gesture screening in young infants with the UK-CDI:Highly sensitive to risk factors for communication delay (2017) (0)
Book Review: Blackwell Handbook of Language Development (2007) (0)
Early and late gesture learners in a national UK sample (2019) (0)
The sounds of language (2013) (0)
Introduction to language acquisition (2013) (0)
Linking Dutch infants’ speed of processing to vocabulary size at 18 months (2019) (0)
We'll never discover what is external, and what is internal, to language without multi-methodological approaches (2018) (0)
Individual differences in language acquisition: Identifying late talkers (2018) (0)
Syntactic representations contain semantic information: Evidence from forced-choice comprehension and syntactic-priming studies of the passive with adults and children (2018) (0)
What predicts how quickly children learn words (2017) (0)
How different is speech input and output across subgroups? First results from >12,000 hours of naturalistic recordings (2018) (0)
Evaluating the effectiveness of a reading for pleasure intervention: A randomised control trial (2016) (0)
Distributional semantic models for vocabulary acquisition (2020) (0)
The UK-CDI - Inter-dialect differences in English language CDI datasets (2018) (0)
How children learn language [invited talk] (2018) (0)
The Effects of Input Modality, Word Difficulty and Reading Experience on Word Recognition Accuracy (2020) (0)
How to build a Language Acquisition Device: Insights from the Language 0-5 Project [plenary talk] (2020) (0)
Relating parental MLU to infant’s vocabulary size via speed of processing (2019) (0)
Multiple syntactic processing biases that change over development. (2014) (0)
BRENT, M. R. (ed.). (1997). Computational approaches to language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 199. ISBN 0-262-52229-2. (1999) (0)
CLARK, E. V., First language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+515. ISBN 0521629977. (2003) (0)
Children's role assignment in Cantonese dative constructions : syntactic perspectives (2010) (0)
Lessons learned from trying to build a language acquisition device [keynote] (2018) (0)
On the links between speed of processing, parental input complexity and vocabulary development (2020) (0)
Linking parental responsiveness to infants’ vocabulary and processing ability (2019) (0)
Gaze-triggered looking-while-listening: A new method for measuring speed of processing (2019) (0)
Quality not quantity in caregiver speech: Why lexical diversity pro-vides a better learning environment than raw exposure to language (2017) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Investigating predictors of individual differences in productive vocabulary and their ability to identify late talking toddlers (2017) (0)
Effects of modality on learning novel word - picture associations (2019) (0)
Effects of story complexity on mothers’ abstract language use during shared reading with preschoolers (2017) (0)
Competing cues in the acquisition of semantic roles: New evidence from the dative in English and Welsh (2010) (0)
Regional representation of toddler vocabulary in the UK ? Construction of the UK-CDI words and sentences (2020) (0)
Individual differences in speed of lexical processing and its relationship to language development (2018) (0)
Review of Clark, E. V. (2003). First language acquisition. (2003) (0)
Listening to children: New perspectives on the brain, on language, and on science, from studies on language development [keynote presentation] (2019) (0)
The first noun as agent bias: Using eye tracking to investigate how children and adult process transitive sentences (2011) (0)
What predicts how quickly children learn words? [invited talk] (2017) (0)
Linguistic distance between languages and exposure affect the development of vocabulary in bilingual toddlers: a large-scale study. (2015) (0)
Individual differences in productive vocabulary: Identifying children who are slow to talk (2019) (0)
How to promote children’s language development using family-based shared book reading (2018) (0)
Modality Effects in Vocabulary Acquisition (2019) (0)
The relation between speed of processing and parental input complexity (2020) (0)
The Impact of Shared Book Reading on Children’s Language Skills: A Meta-Analysis (2018) (0)
Abstract representations in bilingual L2 speaking children over development in a structurally biased language (2019) (0)
The effects of eye gaze on infants’ language learning: A systematic review (2020) (0)
Children's engagement and caregivers' use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach. (2022) (0)
Does variation in infants’ statistical learning ability predict variation in vocabulary growth? (2017) (0)
Language acquisition and executive function from 12 to 36 months in typically developing children (2017) (0)
English Manchester1 Corpus (2004) (0)
English Lara Corpus (2004) (0)
Statistical learning in infant language acquisition: From segmenting speech to discovering structure (2018) (0)
Modality effects in novel picture-word form associations (2019) (0)
What is the relationship between executive function and language development? [invited symposium discussant] (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Listening to children: New perspectives on the brain and on language from studies on language development [invited talk] (2018) (0)
Translating research into practice: Children's language and communicative development in the early years (2017) (0)
You and I: Using epistemic cues to predict who will talk next in conversation (2020) (0)
Do children learn from their mistakes? Evaluating error-based theories of language acquisition (2018) (0)
Not only amount of exposure but also linguistic distance to English affects the word learning of bilingual toddlers (2015) (0)
The relationship between oral-motor skills and 2 years, vocabulary production and later articulation skills (2018) (0)
Evaluating the vocabulary of bilingual toddlers: a large-scale study. (2015) (0)
Investigating the relationship between language processing efficiency, vocabulary, and working memory across development (2018) (0)
Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications (2020) (0)
Executive Function and Sentence Processing Ability: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project (2019) (0)
How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development (2016) (0)
Baby sign, mind-mindedness and language development (2018) (0)
IV: RESULTS FOR STUDIES 2 AND 3: THE UKBTAT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO NONTARGET ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS. (2018) (0)
Is the automated classification of child gestures feasible (2019) (0)
Adaptation and validation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI Gesture Scale for the UK (2013) (0)
Analyses scripts and datasets (2020) (0)
Developmental psycholinguistics teaches us that we need multi-method, not single-method, approaches to the study of linguistic representation (2017) (0)
Interactive shared book reading (Noble et al., 2020) (2020) (0)
The effect of age on the composition of the first 10 words produced:Evidence from the UK-CDI (2015) (0)
The relationship between prediction in sentence processing and language development (2019) (0)
English Lara-Diary Corpus (2004) (0)
First NP-as-agent bias does not prevent active from passive discrimination in 25-month-olds. (2015) (0)
Comprehension of passive sentences with novel verbs by 25- and 42-month-olds (2015) (0)
Speed of processing and its relationship with language development (2018) (0)
Listening to children: New perspectives on the brain, on language, and on science, from studies on language development [invited talk] (2017) (0)
Statistical learning in infants, and its relationship with language development: A study of nonadjacent dependency learning (2018) (0)
LuCiD and the Sefton Training Study: Boosting Children’s Language Development in the Early Years (2016) (0)
Implicit learning and surprisal effects in a structurally biased language: A developmental study (2018) (0)
E.V. Clark,First language acquisition Cambridge, MA:Cambridge University Press ,2003 0521629977 (2003) (0)

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