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Overview

Ben Ambridge is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to arts and humanities. The subfields of study include developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics cover language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, language, discourse, communication strategies, natural language processing techniques, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Ben Ambridge has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Open Research Europe, Language and Cognition, Collabra Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Journal of Child Language.

  • Open Research Europe
  • Language and Cognition
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Child Language

Among recent papers, notable works include:

  • "Abstractions made of exemplars or 'You're all right, and I've changed my mind': Response to commentators" (2020) published in First Language
  • "The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'" (2020) published in Cognition
  • "Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives" (2020) published in Journal of Child Language
  • "Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children's and Adults' Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive" (2020) published in Cognitive Science
  • "Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming" (2021) published in Language and Cognition

Ambridge collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Ramya Maitreyee, Amy Bidgood, Caroline F. Rowland, Soumitra Samanta, and Dipti Misra Sharma. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications across the primary research themes mentioned.

Best Publications

  • The structure of working memory from 4 to 15 years of age.

    Susan E. Gathercole;Susan J. Pickering;Benjamin Ambridge;Hannah Wearing

  • Child language acquisition : contrasting theoretical approaches

    Ben Ambridge;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

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

  • The development of abstract syntax: evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost.

    Caroline F. Rowland;Franklin Chang;Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine

  • The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland;Chris R. Young

  • Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition:

    Ben Ambridge

  • The island status of clausal complements: Evidence in favor of an information structure explanation

    Ben Ambridge;Adele E. Goldberg

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

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

  • Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition

    Ben Ambridge;Caroline F. Rowland

  • Child Language Acquisition: List of tables

    Ben Ambridge;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • 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

  • Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn't help

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors.

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland

  • The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland;Franklin Chang

  • Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: Semantics, statistics or both?

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland;Daniel Freudenthal

  • The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure.

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland;Franklin Chang

  • A Constructivist Account of Child Language Acquisition

    Ben Ambridge;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • A Semantics-Based Approach to the “no negative evidence” problem

    Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine;Caroline F. Rowland;Rebecca L. Jones

  • Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex‐Question Production

    Ben Ambridge;Caroline F. Rowland;Julian M. Pine

  • Children's judgments of regular and irregular novel past-tense forms: new data on the English past-tense debate.

    Ben Ambridge

  • How do children restrict their linguistic generalizations? An (un-)grammaticality judgment study.

    Ben Ambridge

  • Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form?

    Sanna H. M. Räsänen;Ben Ambridge;Julian M. Pine

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian M. Pine
Julian M. Pine University of Liverpool
Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven University of Manchester
Caroline F. Rowland
Caroline F. Rowland Radboud University
Anna L. Theakston
Anna L. Theakston University of Manchester
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Ruth A. Berman
Ruth A. Berman Tel Aviv University
Evan Kidd
Evan Kidd Australian National University
Adele E. Goldberg
Adele E. Goldberg Princeton University

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