A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021) (2022)
Journal Article
Bidgood, A., Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Bent, E., & Hickman, N. (2022). A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021). Infant and child development, https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2292

Orben (2021) proposed a ‘Digital Diet’ approach to thinking about children's consumption of digital media. Here, we consider the Digital Diet with a focus on young children under 5. As well as discussing how Type and Amount apply to this age group, w... Read More about A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021).

Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications (2020)
Book Chapter
Kidd, E., Bidgood, A., Donnelly, S., Durrant, S., Peter, M., & Rowland, C. (2020). Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications. In C. Rowland, A. Theakston, B. Ambridge, & K. Twomey (Eds.), Current perspectives on child language acquisition : how children use their environment to learn (189-219). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.09kid

Much of Lieven’s pioneering work has helped move the study of individual differences to the centre of child language research. The goal of the present chapter is to illustrate how the study of individual differences provides crucial insights into the... Read More about Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications.

Syntactic representations are both abstract and semantically constrained : evidence from children’s and adults’ comprehension and production/priming of the English passive (2020)
Journal Article
Bidgood, A., Pine, J., Rowland, C., & Ambridge, B. (2020). Syntactic representations are both abstract and semantically constrained : evidence from children’s and adults’ comprehension and production/priming of the English passive. Cognitive Science, 44(9), e12892. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12892

All accounts of language acquisition agree that, by around age 4, children’s knowledge of grammatical constructions is abstract, rather than tied solely to individual lexical items. The aim of the present research was to investigate, focusing on the... Read More about Syntactic representations are both abstract and semantically constrained : evidence from children’s and adults’ comprehension and production/priming of the English passive.

Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? (2020)
Journal Article
Durrant, S., Jessop, A., Chang, F., Bidgood, A., Peter, M., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2021). Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?. Language and Cognition, 13(1), 66-98. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.26

By the end of their first year, infants can interpret many different types of complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants of this age are also in the early stages of vocabulary development, produci... Read More about Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?.

Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives (2020)
Journal Article
Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., & Thomas, K. (2021). Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives. Journal of Child Language, 48(1), 184-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000215

Children with ASD and an IQ-matched control group of typically developing (TD) children completed an elicited-production task which encouraged the production of reversible passive sentences (e.g., “Bob was hit by Wendy”). Although the two groups show... Read More about Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD : elicited production of passives.

Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020)
Journal Article
Frost, R., Jessop, A., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Pine, J., …Monaghan, P. (2020). Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development. Cognitive Psychology, 120, 101291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101291

To acquire language, infants must learn how to identify words and linguistic structure in speech. Statistical learning has been suggested to assist both of these tasks. However, infants’ capacity to use statistics to discover words and structure toge... Read More about Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development.