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Overview

Evan Kidd is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a specialization in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The main research topics addressed by Evan Kidd include the following:

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

Evan Kidd has contributed to several academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Cognition
  • First Language
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Evan Kidd include:

  • "How diverse is child language acquisition research?" (2022), published in First Language
  • "Measuring children's auditory statistical learning via serial recall" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Other relevant recent papers in related research areas co-authored with frequent collaborators are:

  • "The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development" (2021), published in Child Development
  • "Statistically Induced Chunking Recall: A Memory-Based Approach to Statistical Learning" (2020), published in Cognitive Science
  • "Individual differences in lexical processing efficiency and vocabulary in toddlers: A longitudinal investigation" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Evan Kidd include:

  • Rowena Garcia
  • Seamus Donnelly
  • Rachel Nordlinger
  • Caroline F. Rowland
  • Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez

Best Publications

  • The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition

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

  • Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing

    Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd;Seamus Donnelly;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax.

    Evan Kidd

  • How diverse is child language acquisition research?

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  • 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

  • Individual Differences in Statistical Learning Predict Children's Comprehension of Syntax.

    Evan Kidd;Joanne Arciuli

  • English-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: Evidence for General-Cognitive and Language-Specific Constraints on Development

    Evan Kidd;Edith L. Bavin

  • The Discourse Bases of Relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses

    Silke Brandt;Evan Kidd;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements

    Evan Kidd;Elena Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review

    Sara Quinn;Seamus Donnelly;Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd

  • First language transfer and long-term structural priming in comprehension

    Sanjo Nitschke;Evan Kidd;Ludovica Serratrice

  • The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development

    Seamus Donnelly;Evan Kidd

  • Why right-brain teaching is half-witted: A critique of the misapplication of neuroscience to education.

    Annukka K. Lindell;Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd

  • Indigenous children’s language: Acquisition, preservation and evolution of language in minority contexts:

    Barbara F. Kelly;Evan Kidd;Gillian Wigglesworth

  • Individual differences in syntactic priming in language acquisition.

    Evan Kidd

  • Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition

    Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd;Evan Kidd;Seamus Donnelly;Seamus Donnelly

  • Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: evidence from sentential complements

    Evan Kidd;Elena V.M. Lieven;Michael Tomasello

  • Investigating the Role of Verbal Working Memory in Young Children's Sentence Comprehension

    Whitney Boyle;Annukka K. Lindell;Evan Kidd

  • The referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions.

    Anna C. Roby;Evan James. Kidd

  • Shallow processing of ambiguous pronouns: evidence for delay.

    Andrew J. Stewart;Judith. Holler;Evan James. Kidd

  • The Role of Verbal Working Memory in Children's Sentence Comprehension: A Critical Review.

    Evan Kidd

  • Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: the role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery.

    Evan Kidd;Andrew J. Stewart;Ludovica Serratrice

  • An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals

    Andrew J. Stewart;Matthew Haigh;Evan Kidd

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline F. Rowland
Caroline F. Rowland Radboud University
Edith L. Bavin
Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven University of Manchester
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Joanne Arciuli
Joanne Arciuli Flinders University
Emiko S. Kashima
Emiko S. Kashima La Trobe University
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Jarrad A. G. Lum
Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University
Cheryl Dissanayake
Cheryl Dissanayake La Trobe University

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