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Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors (2016)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Lieven, E. V. M., & Theakston, A. L. (2017). Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors. Cognitive Science, 41(5), 1242-1273. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12407

Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Cognitive Science Society. An experimental study was conducted on children aged 2;6–3;0 and 3;6–4;0 investigating the priming effect of two WANT-constru... Read More about Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors.

How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish (2016)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Kidd, E., & Lieven, E. (2017). How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish. Journal of Child Language, 44(01), 120-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000768

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016. We report three studies (one corpus, two experimental) that investigated the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Finnish-speaking children. Study 1 found that Finnish children's naturalistic exposure... Read More about How do language-specific characteristics affect the acquisition of different relative clause types? Evidence from Finnish.