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  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Elena Lieven is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, focusing extensively on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, clinical psychology, and education.

The main topics in Elena Lieven's work include language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, stuttering research and treatment, syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, child and animal learning development, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Frequent publication venues for their research are the Journal of Fluency Disorders, Journal of Child Language, First Language, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, and Language and Cognition.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Elena Lieven include:

  • A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship to Language Development (2020, Child Development)
  • 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)
  • Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children (2021, Cognitive Linguistics)

Elena Lieven has collaborated frequently with a group of researchers, including Anna Theakston (14 coauthored papers), Max Gattie (6 papers), Karolina Kluk (6 papers), Silke Brandt (5 papers), and Virve-Anneli Vihman (5 papers).

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Elena Lieven was awarded membership to the Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development*

    Elena V. M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Gillian Baldwin

  • A Construction Based Analysis of Child Directed Speech.

    Thea Cameron-Faulkner;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Child language acquisition : contrasting theoretical approaches

    Ben Ambridge;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • 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

  • Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach.

    Elena Lieven;Heike Behrens;Jennifer Speares;Michael Tomasello

  • Crosslinguistic and crosscultural aspects of language addressed to children

    Elena V. M. Lieven

  • 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

  • Individual differences in early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive distinction

    Elena V. M. Lieven;Julian M. Pine;Helen Dresner Barnes

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

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

  • Two-year-old children's production of multiword utterances: A usage-based analysis

    Elena Lieven;Dorothé Salomo;Michael Tomasello

  • Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category

    Julian M. Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • Towards a lexically specific grammar of children's question constructions

    Ewa Dąbrowska;Elena Lieven

  • Object relatives made easy : A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses.

    Evan Kidd;Silke Brandt;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Reanalysing rote-learned phrases: individual differences in the transition to multi-word speech.

    Julian N Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • German Children’s Comprehension of Word Order and Case Marking in Causative Sentences

    Miriam Dittmar;Kirsten F. Abbot-Smith;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Input and first language acquisition: Evaluating the role of frequency

    Elena Lieven

  • Comparing different models of the development of the English verb category

    Julian M. Pine;Elena V. M. Lieven;Caroline F. Rowland

  • 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

  • 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

  • Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge.

    Colin Bannard;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

    Jiansheng Guo;Elena Lieven;Nancy Budwig;Susan Ervin-Tripp

  • Child Language Acquisition: List of tables

    Ben Ambridge;Elena V. M. Lieven

  • Bilingual language acquisition: Commentary on Sebastian-Galles

    Elena Lieven

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Anna L. Theakston
Anna L. Theakston University of Manchester
Julian M. Pine
Julian M. Pine University of Liverpool
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter University of St Andrews
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester

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