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According to Wikipedia, Elena Lieven is a British psychology and linguistics researcher and educator. She was a senior research scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology in Leipzig, Germany. She is also a professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester where she is director of its Child Study Centre and leads the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development .

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Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development (1997) (437)
The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account. (2001) (374)
Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach. (2003) (300)
A construction based analysis of child directed speech (2003) (248)
Crosslinguistic and crosscultural aspects of language addressed to children (1994) (240)
Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations: lexical and structural priming of syntactic constructions in young children. (2003) (236)
Two-year-old children's production of multiword utterances: A usage-based analysis (2009) (214)
A Construction Based Analysis of Child Directed Speech. (2003) (213)
Towards a lexically specific grammar of children’s question constructions (2005) (211)
Bilingual Language Acquisition (2011) (204)
Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category (1997) (204)
German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences. (2008) (202)
Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses (2007) (199)
Child Language Acquisition: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches (2011) (194)
Individual differences in early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive distinction (1992) (193)
The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions (2006) (179)
The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order (2005) (173)
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)
Reanalysing rote-learned phrases: individual differences in the transition to multi-word speech (1993) (165)
Children's first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective (2008) (159)
Input and first language acquisition: Evaluating the role of frequency (2010) (152)
Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech (2003) (144)
Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge (2009) (139)
Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax. (2004) (128)
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning in Language Acquisition: The Persistence of Lexical and Structural Priming in 4-Year-Olds (2006) (127)
Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study. (2012) (122)
The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses (2009) (111)
A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English. (2004) (108)
Can input explain children's me-for-I errors?* (2009) (106)
The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English. (2003) (105)
Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin (2009) (103)
Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang (2007) (100)
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements (2006) (99)
How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. (2007) (97)
The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract grammatical construction (2006) (90)
Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition: what do they mean? (1996) (89)
The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE (2005) (89)
Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English (2009) (86)
Two- and Four-Year-Olds Learn to Adapt Referring Expressions to Context: Effects of Distracters and Feedback on Referential Communication (2012) (85)
Maternal speech to infants at 1 and 3 months of age (2005) (81)
What's in a manner of speaking? Children's sensitivity to partner-specific referential precedents. (2010) (80)
What preschool children do and do not do with ungrammatical word orders (2001) (78)
What part of no do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation (2007) (76)
Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘go’ (2002) (75)
Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. (2008) (69)
The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing (2015) (67)
Lexically Restricted Utterances in Russian, German, and English Child-Directed Speech (2009) (61)
Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions: Effects of input frequencies, lexical items, and discourse function (2010) (61)
Early Communicative Development in Two Cultures: A Comparison of the Communicative Environments of Children from Two Cultures (2013) (59)
Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t help (2014) (58)
The constructivist approach (2011) (57)
Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech* (2011) (53)
Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements (2010) (52)
The incidence of error in young children's Wh-questions. (2005) (50)
Graded representations in the acquisition of English and German transitive constructions (2008) (49)
The attention-grammar interface: Eye-gaze cues structural choice in children and adults (2013) (49)
Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. (2004) (48)
The distributed learning effect for children’s acquisition of an abstract syntactic construction (2006) (48)
Referential style at thirteen months: why age-defined cross-sectional measures are inappropriate for the study of strategy differences in early language development (1990) (46)
Usage-based approaches to language development: Where do we go from here? (2016) (44)
Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories. (2005) (42)
Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accounts (2009) (42)
Repetition and reuse in child language learning (2009) (42)
Child Language Acquisition (2011) (41)
Children's norm enforcement in their interactions with peers. (2014) (41)
Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure (2006) (40)
Automatic evaluation of syntactic learners in typologically-different languages (2008) (40)
A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition (2015) (40)
French children's use and correction of weird word orders: A constructivist account (2007) (39)
Tense over time: testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model as an account of the pattern of tense-marking provision in early child English* (2008) (38)
Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model: why the data on children's use of non-nominative 3psg subjects count against the ATOM (2005) (38)
Learning the English auxiliary: A Usage-based Approach, In H. Behrens (Ed.): Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: Finding Structure in Data (2008) (37)
"Frequent Frames" in German Child-Directed Speech: A Limited Cue to Grammatical Categories (2011) (36)
Young children's sensitivity to new and given information when answering predicate-focus questions (2009) (35)
Young children's understanding of denial. (2014) (35)
Formulaic Language in L1 Acquisition (2012) (34)
Children Use Statistics and Semantics in the Retreat from Overgeneralization (2014) (33)
Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage. (1997) (33)
Young children's comprehension of English SVO word order revisited: Testing the same children in act-out and intermodal preferential looking tasks (2010) (33)
How Polish children switch from one case to another when using novel nouns: Challenges for models of inflectional morphology (2011) (31)
Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences (2018) (31)
Young children use shared experience to interpret definite reference. (2015) (31)
The influence of discourse context on children's provision of auxiliary BE* (2008) (30)
Keeping it simple: the grammatical properties of shared book reading (2017) (30)
The Role of Pronoun Frames in Early Comprehension of Transitive Constructions in English (2010) (30)
Verifying Theories of Language Acquisition Using Computer Models of Language Evolution (2010) (29)
Productivity of a Polish child’s inflectional noun morphology: a naturalistic study (2012) (28)
Language acquisition as a cultural process (2013) (28)
Typological Constraints on Motion in French and English Child Language (2010) (28)
Interactional style and children's language learning (1984) (26)
First language development: a usage-based perspective on past and current research* (2014) (26)
The acquisition of auxiliaries BE and HAVE: an elicitation study* (2005) (26)
The oral referential communication skills of hearing‐impaired children (2005) (26)
German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences (2011) (24)
Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames (2015) (24)
The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study (2012) (23)
How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages (2019) (23)
Cultural evolution of language (2013) (22)
Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian (2019) (22)
Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children (2018) (22)
Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. (2016) (22)
German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and variability (2011) (22)
Multiunit Sequences in First Language Acquisition (2017) (22)
The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of ’mixed‘ verb-argument structure at Stage 1 (2000) (22)
Semantics of the Transitive Construction: Prototype Effects and Developmental Comparisons (2012) (21)
Subject and object omission in children's early transitive constructions: A discourse-pragmatic approach (2014) (21)
Oral conversations between hearing-impaired children and their normally hearing peers and teachers (2001) (20)
The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering* (2010) (19)
Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs: How German Pre-School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences (2014) (18)
`I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker `to' (2009) (18)
Learning to Talk About Spatial Motion in Language-Specic Ways (2010) (18)
German–English-speaking children's mixed NPs with ‘correct’ agreement* (2010) (18)
Children's ability to answer different types of questions. (2013) (17)
Young Children’s Intonational Marking of New, Given and Contrastive Referents (2015) (17)
Teaching versus enforcing game rules in preschoolers' peer interactions. (2015) (17)
Child Language Acquisition: List of summary tables (2011) (16)
The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. (2014) (16)
Using Child Utterances to Evaluate Syntax Acquisition Algorithms (2006) (15)
Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child (2018) (15)
Learning through Language (2019) (15)
Learning to Express Motion in Narratives by Mandarin-Speaking Children (2010) (15)
The acquisition of complement clause constructions: A sentence repetition study. (2005) (15)
The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) (2010) (15)
Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. (2011) (15)
Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers. (2014) (15)
Children's Acquisition of the English Past‐Tense: Evidence for a Single‐Route Account From Novel Verb Production Data (2018) (14)
Entrenchment and productivity: The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child (2019) (12)
German Children’s Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items (2015) (12)
Rethinking Character Representation and Its Development in Children’s Narratives (2010) (12)
Triplication and ideophones in Chintang (2005) (12)
Given–new/new–given? Children's sensitivity to the ordering of information in complex sentences (2013) (11)
The Effects of Animacy and Syntax on Priming: A Developmental Study (2017) (11)
Between Frogs and Black-Winged Monkeys: Orality, Evidentials, and Authorship in Tzotzil (Mayan) Children’s Narratives (2010) (10)
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship to Language Development. (2020) (10)
First language learning from a usage-based approach (2014) (10)
Converging and competing cues in the acquisition of syntactic structures: the conjoined agent intransitive (2015) (10)
Producing multiword utterances (2006) (10)
Constructively combining languages : The use of code-mixing in German-English bilingual child language acquisition (2018) (9)
Interaction for Task Instruction and Learning (2019) (9)
Images of Nuclear War and the Public in British Civil Defense Planning Documents (1983) (9)
How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish* (2016) (8)
Discourse Particles and Belief Reasoning: The Case of German doch (2014) (8)
Worshiping the King God : a Preliminary Analysis of Chintang Ritual Language in the Invocation of Rajdeu (2005) (8)
Building Language Competence in First Language Acquisition (2008) (8)
Input, Interaction, and Learning in Early Language Development (2019) (8)
Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions* (2012) (8)
What Does It Mean to Compare Language and Gesture? Modalities and Contrasts (2010) (8)
Language Development: Overview (2006) (7)
Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016) (7)
Developing constructions (2009) (7)
Syntactic and semantic coordination in finite complement-clause constructions: a diary-based case study. (2016) (7)
Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children (2021) (7)
Studying language acquisition cross-linguistically (2013) (7)
Language development in a cross-linguistic context (2010) (6)
Exposition et appropriation dans l’acquisition de la langue maternelle (1993) (6)
Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP) (2005) (6)
Interactions between givenness and clause order in children’s processing of complex sentences (2020) (6)
9. Partially schematic constructions as engines of development: Evidence from German-English bilingual acquisition (2018) (6)
Acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish : The effect of input (2011) (6)
Imagery for Speaking (2010) (5)
The Role of Animacy in Children's Interpretation of Relative Clauses in English: Evidence From Sentence-Picture Matching and Eye Movements (2020) (5)
The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children (2014) (5)
Similarity, analogy and development in radical exemplar theory: A commentary on Ambridge (2020) (2020) (5)
“He Take One of My Tools!” vs. “I’m Building”: Transitivity and the Grammar of Accusing, Commanding, and Perspective-Sharing in Toddlers’ Peer Disputes (2010) (5)
Grammaticization: Implications for a Theory of Language (2010) (5)
Can the Usage-Based Approach to Language Development be Applied to Analysis of Developmental Stuttering? (2004) (5)
Child Language Acquisition: Learning word meanings (2011) (5)
Chapter 5. Acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish (2011) (4)
Explanatory adequacy is not enough: Response to commentators on ‘Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t help’ (2015) (4)
Mundum : A Case Study of Chintang Ritual Language (2009) (4)
Variation in first language acquisition (2006) (4)
The Acquisition of Tense/Aspect (2019) (4)
Towards a Quatitative Corpus-based Evaluation Measure for Syntactic Theories (2005) (3)
Developing Language from Usage: Explaining Errors (2017) (3)
Ruth A. Berman and Dan Isaac Slobin (eds.) Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1996) (3)
Mixed NPs in German-English and German-Russian bilingual children (2016) (3)
Elizabeth Bates, Inge Bretherton & Lynn Snyder, From first'words to grammar: individual differences and dissociable mechanisms . Cambridge: C.U.P., 1988. Pp. xii + 326. (1990) (3)
Competing cues in early syntactic development (2014) (3)
Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident' of 1979 and the politics of commemoration (2013) (3)
The Linguistic Implications of Early and Systematic Variation in Child Language Development (1989) (3)
Chapter 7 Is language development dependent on early communicative development ? (2017) (2)
The role of frequency and distributional regularity in the acquisition of word order. (2004) (2)
A lexically-based analysis of Child Directed Speech. (2001) (2)
Thinking for Speaking and Channeling of Attention: A Case for Eye-Tracking Research (2010) (2)
The Subject–Object Asymmetry Revisited: Experimental and Computational Approaches to the Role of Information Structure in Children’s Argument Omissions (2020) (2)
Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora (2020) (2)
Inflection of nouns for grammatical number in spoken narratives by people with aphasia: how glass slippers challenge the rule-based approach (2019) (2)
Why Some Spatial Semantic Categories Are Harder to Learn Than Others: The Typological Prevalence Hypothesis (2010) (2)
The oral referential communication skills of hearing-impaired children (2005) (2)
The role of word order and case marking in Polish children’s comprehension of transitives (2010) (2)
Is that for me (2014) (2)
Afterword: A view from research on spoken language development (2002) (2)
Child Language Acquisition: Subject index (2011) (2)
Can Apes Learn Grammar?: A Short Detour Into Language Evolution (2010) (1)
Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang (2010) (1)
Comprehension of intransitive argument structure: The first-noun-as-agent bias (2010) (1)
Direction and Perspective in German Child Language (2010) (1)
Chapter 1. Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical Differential Object Marking in Estonian (2020) (1)
Weak Vestibular Response in Persistent Developmental Stuttering (2021) (1)
Chapter 8. Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions (2018) (1)
Repetition and Reuse in Child Language Learning. In Roberta Corrigan, Edith Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali, Kathleen Wheatley (eds) (2009) (1)
Multiword Sequences as Building Blocks for Language: Insights into First and Second Language Learning (2013) (1)
Child Language Acquisition: Inflection (2011) (1)
The Development of Reference from Two to Four Years (2009) (1)
Dog eats man (2015) (1)
The development of negation. (2003) (1)
Productivity in early multiword utterances: analytic and synthetic solutions (1992) (1)
Theoretical perspectives on language development, language change and typology (2009) (0)
The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project ( CPDP ) (2013) (0)
Weak vestibular response in persistent developmental stuttering and implications for own voice identification (2020) (0)
The determiner category: An experimental study of productivity in young chidren's speech (2001) (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)
Chapter 6. Preschoolers’ use of questions in their joint decisions with peers (2017) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Preface (2011) (0)
Multimodal multiperson interaction with infants aged 9 to 15 months (2003) (0)
Many ways to decline a noun: elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian (2021) (0)
Modelling the acquisition of Polish verb inflection (2016) (0)
Cross-linguistic acquisition of complex verb inflection in a neural network model (2018) (0)
Do two-year-old children display pragmatic flexibility? (2013) (0)
Input and Interaction across cultures (2017) (0)
English Thomas Corpus (2009) (0)
Appendix: Developmental issues (2013) (0)
English MPI-EVA-Manchester Corpus (2015) (0)
Variation in L1 acquisition (2005) (0)
The constructivist approach: Reply to commentaries (2011) (0)
LINKS BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY IN BRITAIN AND SOUTH-AFRICA (1987) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Theoretical approaches to grammar acquisition (2011) (0)
Productivity of a Polish child’s inflectional noun morphology: a naturalistic study (2012) (0)
What Can Be Learned from the Application of This Technique ? (2012) (0)
What's in a book? (2013) (0)
The acquisition of verb morphology in Polish and Finnish: Model and experiment (2017) (0)
The determiner category: Productivity in children's speech (2001) (0)
English Manchester1 Corpus (2004) (0)
Language development. In M.Bornstein (Ed). (2009) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Movement and complex syntax (2011) (0)
Give some, keep some: Scalar implicatures and sharing in children (2015) (0)
Frequency Sensitivity of Neural Responses to English Verb Argument Structure Violations (2018) (0)
Subject index to Volume 33 (1979) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: References (2011) (0)
Shared book reading: Keeping it simple (2013) (0)
How Do Children Develop Syntactic Representations from What They Hear? (2006) (0)
Cross-linguistic acquisition of complex verb inflection in a connectionist model (2017) (0)
Acquisition of conjoined agent intransitive argument structure: A training study (2013) (0)
Is Structural Priming in Children Facilitated by Interactions between Animacy and Syntax? (2017) (0)
Early Knowledge of noun slots (2002) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Simple syntax (2011) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Binding, quantification and control (2011) (0)
infinitival markerto' `I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of (2010) (0)
SECTION A: COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON FORMULAIC LANGUAGE (2012) (0)
A comparison of the pragmatic patterns in the spontaneous because- and if-sentences produced by children and their caregivers (2021) (0)
Multiunit Sequences in First Language Acquisition 1 (2017) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Notes (2011) (0)
APL volume 31 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Young children's use of nouns in pre-verbal position (2002) (0)
Sexual Dimorphism in VEMP peak to trough Latency (2023) (0)
Related debates and conclusions (2011) (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Introduction (2011) (0)
Finiteness, Universal Grammar, and the Language Faculty (2010) (0)
The Misconception of Language Particularism (2013) (0)
Nancy Budwig, A developmental–functionalist approach to child language. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995. Pp. xii+224. (1997) (0)
Some Remarks on Universal Grammar (2010) (0)
The Acquisition of Argument Structure (2011) (0)
Bowerman M (1996). 'learning How to Structure Space for Language: a Crosslinguistic Perspective.' in Bloom P, Language Development: Overview Overview of Development Learning a Vocabulary and Developing Meaning Learning Grammar Learning Morphology (0)
Child Language Acquisition: Speech perception, segmentation and production (2011) (0)

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