We performed an exhaustive meta-analysis of 73 peer-reviewed journal articles on syntactic
priming from the seminal Bock (1986) paper through 2013. Extracting the effect size for each …

We show that children's syntactic production is immediately affected by individual
experiences of structures and verb–structure pairings within a dialogue, but that these …

Case marking in English in available only on some pronouns and only in some cases. It is
unknown whether young children acquiring English nevertheless make use of this highly …

This dissertation investigates the acquisition of the passive. The apparent cross-linguistic
delay of the verbal passive compared to other constructions suggests children's knowledge …

Research in the Caribbean often links global phenomena (eg increased tourism) to changes
in lifestyles and mindsets taking place in this part of the world (Curtis, 2009). I examine the …

The current study examined the production of Hebrew verbal passives across adolescence
as mediated by linguistic register and verb morphology. Participants aged eight to sixteen …

Guasti (2016) notes similarities between English get-and be-passives, and Romance
causatives of the faire-par and faire-infinitif types, respectively. On this basis she conjectures …

Passives are considered more difficult to process than actives. The existing literature
presents contrasting findings: passives are read faster than actives in online data, but more …

This thesis is concerned with a central question in any construction-based, usage-based
theory of language acquisition: how children get from more concrete and item-based …

In 1986, J. Kathryn Bock, a professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, published a pioneering article on the phenomenon of syntactic priming …