Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Child language, acquisition of morphology, syntax and semantics, language development in children with language delay (specific language impairment)
Biography
My field of study is children's acquisition of language, in particular, their acquisition of grammatical structures (syntax) and sentence meanings (semantics). My research is conducted within the framework of Chomsky's 'Universal Grammar'. The goal of my research is to understand which aspects of children's knowledge of language are in place at birth, and which aspects are learned over time from the environment. To understand children's developing grammars, I do experiments with young children. Recently, I have also been studying the grammars of children with language delay, sometimes termed specific language impairment.
Research student supervision
I am no longer available as a supervisor.
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Projects
- 12 Finished
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Unexpected Wide Scope Phenomena in Child Language
Koring, L., Crain, S., Giblin, I., Thornton, R., Xie, Z. & Robinson, M.
1/10/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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CLaS: Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) - MQRC 2019
Demuth, K., Thornton, R., Cupples, L., Cox, F., Crain, S., Johnson, M., Leigh, G., Sharma, M., Sowman, P., Proctor, M., Wang, X., Benders, T., Giblin, I., Kim, J., Kung, C., Szakay, A., Xu Rattanasone, N. & Yuen, I.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Audio visual equipment for clinical research in the Australian Hearing Hub
Hudson, J., Rapee, R., Peters, L., Kangas, M., Wuthrich, V., Baillie, A., Knight, R., Harrison, E., Barnes, S., Crain, S., Thornton, R., McArthur, G., Castles, A., Kohnen, S., Banales, E., McMahon, C., Boisvert, I. & Sharma, M.
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Upgrade of child magnetoencephalography (MEG) system
Johnson, B., Crain, S., Thornton, R., Demuth, K., Brock, J., Sowman, P., Zhou, P. & Johnson, M.
1/01/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Experimental methods to study child language
Benders, T., Rattanasone, N. X., Thornton, R., Mulders, I. & Koring, L., 2024, The Routledge handbook of experimental linguistics. Zufferey, S. & Gygax, P. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, p. 375-389 15 p. (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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An introduction to language
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N., Amberber, M., Cox, F. & Thornton, R., 2021, 10th ed. South Melbourne: Cengage Learning. 503 p.Research output: Book/Report › Textbook
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The deep forces that shape language and the poverty of the stimulus
Crain, S., Giblin, I. & Thornton, R., 2021, A companion to Chomsky. Allott, N., Lohndal, T. & Rey, G. (eds.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, p. 462-475 14 p. (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy; no. 74).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: the case of Mandarin Chinese
Gao, N., Zhou, P., Thornton, R. & Crain, S., 1 Dec 2021, In: First Language. 41, 6, p. 737-759 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Like dishwashing detergents, all analogies are not the same: a commentary on Ambridge (2020)
Koring, L., Giblin, I., Thornton, R. & Crain, S., 1 Oct 2020, In: First Language. 40, 5-6, p. 596-599 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
3 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
- 1 Presentation
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Verbs come with arguments
Loes Koring (Speaker) & Rosalind Thornton (Speaker)
2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation