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Overview

Stephen Crain is a researcher affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their work spans multiple fields with a focus on psychology and computer science. They have contributed extensively to developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, and language and linguistics. Their research also incorporates topics related to atomic and molecular physics, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their main research areas include language development and disorders, syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation, as well as reading and literacy development. They also have notable contributions in quantum information and cryptography, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, child and animal learning development, and the neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

Stephen Crain's collaborations include frequent coauthorship with Jungsang Kim, Chao Fang, Peng Zhou, Kenneth R. Brown, and Ye Wang. These collaborations reflect a diverse interdisciplinary engagement across their research fields.

They have published articles in several key venues which reflect the scope of their work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Language Acquisition
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • OSA Quantum 2.0 Conference
  • First Language
  • Physical Review Letters

Among their recent papers, notable works are:

  • High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gates Using a Microelectromechanical-System-Based Beam Steering System for Individual Qubit Addressing, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison, 2021, Language Learning and Development
  • Negative Sentences with Disjunction in Child Catalan, 2021, Language Acquisition
  • High-Stability Cryogenic System for Quantum Computing With Compact Packaged Ion Traps, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
  • Hidden Inverses: Coherent Error Cancellation at the Circuit Level, 2022, Physical Review Applied

Best Publications

  • Investigations in universal grammar: A guide to experiments on the acquisition of syntax and semantics

    Stephen Crain;Rosalind Jean Thornton

  • On Not Being Led up the Garden Path

    S. Crain

  • Language acquisition in the absence of experience

    Stephen Crain

  • Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora

    Stephen Crain;Cecile McKee

  • Cognitive Profiles of Reading-Disabled Children: Comparison of Language Skills in Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax

    D. Shankweiler;D. Shankweiler;S. Crain;S. Crain;L. Katz;L. Katz;A.E. Fowler

  • Structure dependence in grammar formation

    Stephen Crain;Mineharu Nakayama

  • Language mechanisms and reading disorder: A modular approach☆

    Donald Shankweiler;Stephen Crain

  • On not being led up the garden path : The use of context by the psychological syntax processor

    Stephen Crain;Mark Steedman

  • The acquisition of disjunction: Evidence for a grammatical view of scalar implicatures

    Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Maria Teresa Guasti;Andrea Gualmini

  • Why children and adults sometimes (but not always) compute implicatures

    Maria Teresa Guasti;Gennaro Chierchia;Stephen Crain;Francesca Foppolo

  • An introduction to linguistic theory and language acquisition

    Stephen Crain;Diane C. Lillo-Martin

  • Nature, Nurture and Universal Grammar

    Stephen Crain;Paul M. Pietroski

  • Natural language parsing: How can grammars help parsers?

    Stephen Crain;Janet Dean Fodor

  • Quantification Without Qualification

    Stephen Crain;Stephen Crain;Rosalind Thornton;Carole Boster;Laura Conway;Laura Conway

  • Navigating negative quantificational space

    Julien Musolino;Stephen Crain;Rosalind Thornton

  • Investigations in universal grammar

    Stephen Crain

  • At the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

    Andrea Gualmini;Stephen Crain;Luisa Meroni;Gennaro Chierchia

  • Why language acquisition is a snap

    Stephen Crain;Paul M. Pietroski

  • The growth of language: universal Grammar, experience, and principles of computation

    Charles Yang;Stephen Crain;Robert C. Berwick;Noam Chomsky

  • Identifying the Causes of Reading Disability

    Donald Shankweiler;Stephen Crain;Susan Brady;Paul Macaruso

  • Acquisition of cognitive compiling

    Henry Hamburger;Stephen Crain

  • Capturing the Evasive Passive

    Stephen Crain;Rosalind Thornton;Keiko Murasugi

  • Children's Knowledge of Free Choice Inferences and Scalar Implicatures

    Lyn Tieu;Jacopo Romoli;Peng Zhou;Stephen Crain

  • Reception of Language in Broca's Aphasia

    Donald Shankweiler;Stephen Crain;Paul Gorrell;Betty Tuller

  • Language acquisition is language change.

    Stephen Crain;Takuya Goro;Rosalind Thornton

  • Visiting Relatives in Italy

    Stephen Crain;Cecile Mckee;Maria Emiliani

  • Anomaly detection: eye movement patterns.

    Weijia Ni;Weijia Ni;Janet Dean Fodor;Janet Dean Fodor;Stephen Crain;Stephen Crain;Donald Shankweiler;Donald Shankweiler

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Shankweiler
Donald Shankweiler University of Connecticut
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Lyndsey Nickels
Lyndsey Nickels Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur
Genevieve McArthur Macquarie University
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Greg Savage
Greg Savage Macquarie University
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne University of New England
William Forde Thompson
William Forde Thompson Bond University

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