Scope Assignment and Scalar Implicatures in Child English: The Role of Working Memory.
Wang, S. (To appear). Scope Assignment and Scalar Implicatures in Child English: The Role of Working Memory. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 27.1. Proceedings of the 44th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 44).
Spontaneous production of adjectival resultatives and N-N Compounds in child English.
Wang, S., Kido, Y., and Snyder, W. (2020). Spontaneous production of adjectival resultatives and N-N Compounds in child English. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), ed. Megan M. Brown and Alexandra Kohut, 717-723. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Using developmental modeling to specify learning and representation of the passive in English children.
Nguyen, E., Pearl, L. (2019). Using developmental modeling to specify learning and representation of the passive in English children. In The Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 43).
The Role of Processing Capacity in Scope Assignment by Mandarin-acquiring Children.
Wang, Shuyan. (2018). The Role of Processing Capacity in Scope Assignment by Mandarin-acquiring Children. Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), 228-240.
Acquisition of French causatives: Parallels to English passives.
Borga, J. and Snyder, W. (2018). Acquisition of French causatives: Parallels to English passives. Languages 3(2), 18 [https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3020018].
French experiencer verbs and the Universal Freezing Hypothesis.
Borga, J. and Snyder, W. (2018) French experiencer verbs and the Universal Freezing Hypothesis. In A. Gavarró (ed.) On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, 7-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
On the child’s role in syntactic change.
Snyder, W. (2018). On the child’s role in syntactic change. In G. Sengupta, S. Sircar, G. Raman, R. Balusu (eds.) Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax: Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli, 235-242. Singapore: Springer Nature.
It’s hard to extend: A unified account of raising-past-experiencers and passives in child English.
Nguyen, E., and Snyder, W. (2018). It’s hard to extend: A unified account of raising-past-experiencers and passives in child English. In Anne B. Bertolini and Maxwell J. Kaplan (eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, 598-604. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Do you really mean it? Linking lexical semantic profiles and the age of acquisition for the English passive.
Nguyen, E., Pearl, L. (2017). Do you really mean it? Linking lexical semantic profiles and the age of acquisition for the English passive. In The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 35).
The (Non-)Effects of Pragmatics on Children’s Passives.
Nguyen, E., and Snyder, W. (2017). The (Non-)Effects of Pragmatics on Children’s Passives. In Maria LaMendola and Jennifer Scott (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 522-531. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Actionality Speaks Louder than Felicity: Children’s Comprehension of Long Passives
Nguyen, E., Lillo-Martin, D., and Snyder, W. (2017). Actionality speaks louder than felicity: Children’s comprehension of long passives. In Proceedings of GALA 2015, 234-248. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
There and back again: An acquisition study.
Xu, T. and Snyder, W. (2017). There and back again: An acquisition study. Language Acquisition 24(1):3-26.
How to set the Compounding Parameter.
Snyder, W. (2016). How to set the Compounding Parameter. In L. Perkins, R. Dudley, J. Gerard, and K, Hitczenko (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015), 122-130. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project [http://www.lingref.com/cpp/galana/6/index.html].
The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics
Lidz, J., Snyder, W., and Pater, J. (eds.) (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Compound word formation
Snyder, W. (2016). Compound word formation. In Lidz, Snyder, & Pater (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, 89-110. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Minimality effects in children’s passives
Snyder, W. and Hyams, N. (2015). Mimimality effects in children’s passives. In E. Di Domenico, C. Hamann & S. Matteini (eds.) Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Adriana Belletti (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 223). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Children’s knowledge of again with English goal-PPs: Testing the Semantic Subset Principle
Xu, T. (2015). Children’s knowledge of again with English goal-PPs: Testing the Semantic Subset Principle. In Proceedings of 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL32).