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Overview

Anna L. Theakston is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a significant focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence.

Theakston's work addresses various topics within psychology and linguistics, including:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Theakston has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Do complement clauses really support false-belief reasoning? A longitudinal study with English-speaking 2- to 3-year-olds," 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • "The Effects of Traffic Air Pollution in and around Schools on Executive Function and Academic Performance in Children: A Rapid Review," 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The Role of Animacy in Children's Interpretation of Relative Clauses in English: Evidence From Sentence-Picture Matching and Eye Movements," 2020, Cognitive Science
  • "Interactions between givenness and clause order in children's processing of complex sentences," 2020, Cognition
  • "Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora," 2021, Journal of Child Language

Theakston frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Child Language
  • Language and Cognition

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Theakston's research practice, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Elena Lieven
  • Silke Brandt
  • Virve-Anneli Vihman
  • Ben Ambridge
  • Katherine E. Twomey

Best Publications

  • The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account.

    Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland

  • The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

    Ben Ambridge;Evan Kidd;Caroline F. Rowland;Anna L. Theakston

  • Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations: lexical and structural priming of syntactic constructions in young children.

    Ceri Savage;Elena Lieven;Anna L. Theakston;Michael Tomasello

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in english

    Robert J. C. Maslen;Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions.

    Danielle Matthews;Elena Lieven;Anna L. Theakston;Michael Tomasello

  • The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order

    Danielle Matthews;Elena Lieven;Anna Theakston;Michael Tomasello

  • Structural Priming as Implicit Learning in Language Acquisition: The Persistence of Lexical and Structural Priming in 4-Year-Olds

    Ceri Savage;Elena Lieven;Anna L. Theakston;Michael Tomasello

  • Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech.

    Caroline F. Rowland;Julian M. Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven;Anna L. Theakston

  • Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax

    Anna L. Theakston;Elena V.M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland

  • The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract grammatical construction

    Ben Ambridge;Anna L. Theakston;Elena V.M. Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • The role of entrenchment in children's and adults' performance on grammaticality judgment tasks

    Anna L. Theakston

  • The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English.

    Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb 'go'.

    Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland

  • What part of 'no' do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation

    Thea Cameron-Faulkner;Elena Lieven;Anna L. Theakston

  • The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing

    Thea Cameron-Faulkner;Anna Theakston;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'.

    Ben Ambridge;Caroline F. Rowland;Anna L. Theakston;Michael Tomasello

  • Can input explain children's me-for-I errors?

    Minna Kirjavainen;Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. Lieven

  • The Incidence of Error in Young Children's Wh-Questions

    Caroline F. Rowland;Julian M. Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven;Anna L. Theakston

  • The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE

    Anna L. Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland

  • Exploring early communicative behaviours: A fine-grained analysis of infant shows and gives.

    Laura Boundy;Thea Cameron-Faulkner;Anna Theakston

  • Young children's understanding of denial.

    Keith Austin;Anna Theakston;Elena V. M. Lieven;Michael Tomasello

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven University of Manchester
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Julian M. Pine
Julian M. Pine University of Liverpool
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Julie E. Dockrell
Julie E. Dockrell University College London
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University

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