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Publications

Books

Thornton, R. and K. Wexler (1999) Principle B, VP ellipsis and Interpretation in Child Grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Crain, S., and R. Thornton (1998) Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Journal Articles

Thornton, R. and G. Tesan. Sentential negation in early child English. submitted.

Thornton, R. (in press) Studies at the interface of child language and models of language acquisition. First Language.

Landau, I, and R. Thornton (2011). Early child control. Lingua 121, 920-941.

Thornton, R. (2011) Review of Ana Lucia Santos Minimal answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Language 87(1), 229-234

Crain, S., R. Thornton & D. Khlentzos. (2010) Universal Grammar versus linguistic diversity. Lingua 120, 2668-2672.

Shankweiler, D., L. Conway Palumbo, R. Fulbright, W. Einar Mencl, J. Van Dyke, B. Kollia, R. Thornton, S. Crain, K. Harris. (2010) Testing the limits of language production in long-term survivors of major stroke: A psycholinguistic and anatomic study.  Aphasiology 24, 1455-1485.

Tesan G, B.W. Johnson , M. Reid, R. Thornton, S. Crain (2010). Measurement Of Neuromagnetic Brain Function In Pre-school Children With Custom Sized MEG. JoVE. 36. http://www.jove.com/index/details.stp?id=1693, doi: 10.3791/1693

Johnson, B., S. Crain, R. Thornton, G. Tesan & M. Reid. (2010) Measurement of auditory brain function in pre-school children using a custom sized wholehead MEG sensor array.  Clinical Neurophysiology 121(3), 340-349.

Thornton, R. (2010) Verb phrase ellipsis in children’s answers to questions. Language Learning and Development 6(1) 1-31.

Notley, A., P. Zhou, S. Crain and R. Thornton (2009) Children's interpretation of focus expressions in English and Mandarin. Language Acquisition 16, 240-282.

Crain, S. R. Thornton and K. Murasugi (2009) Capturing the evasive passive. Invited paper for the ‘Acquisition Archives’. Language Acquisition 16 (2), 123-133.

Crain, S., R. Thornton and D. Khlentzos (2009) The case of the missing generalizations (Review of A. Goldberg, Constructions at Work). Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 20(1), 145-155.

Thornton, R. (2008) Review of William Snyder Child Language: The Parametric approach, Oxford University Press. Journal of Linguistics 42 (2), 545-552.
 
Thornton, R. (2008) Why continuity. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26(1) 107-146.

Thornton, R and G. Tesan (2007) Categorical acquisition: Parameter setting in Universal Grammar. Biolinguistics 1(1), 49-98.

Crain, S., T. Goro and R. Thornton (2006) Language acquisition is language change. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 35, 31-49.

Kiguchi, H. and R. Thornton (2004) Binding principles and ACD constructions in child grammars. Syntax 7:3, 256-293.

Thornton, R. (2002) Let’s change the subject: Focus in early grammar. Language Acquisition 10, 229-271.

Gavruseva, E. and R. Thornton (2001) Getting it right: Acquisition of whose questions in child English. Language Acquisition 9: 229-267.

Musolino, J, S. Crain and R. Thornton (2000) Navigating negative quantificational space. Linguistics 38, 1-32.

Thornton, R. and S. Crain. (1999) Levels of representation in child grammar. The Linguistic Review 16, 81-123. (Special Issue: Processes and representations in grammatical theory.)

Crain, S., R. Thornton, C. Boster, L. Conway, D. Lillo-Martin and E. Woodams. (1996) Quantification without qualification. Language Acquisition 5, 83-153.

Thornton, R. (1995) Referentiality and wh-movement in child English: Juvenile D-Linkuency. Language Acquisition  4, 139-175. (Special Issue on the Acquisition of Wh-Questions.)

Shankweiler, D., S. Crain, L. Katz, A.E. Fowler, A. M. Liberman, S. A. Brady, R. Thornton, E. Lundquist, L. Dreyer, J. M. Fletcher, K.K. Stuebing, S. E. Shaywitz, B. A. Shaywitz (1995) Cognitive profiles of reading-disabled children: Comparison of language skills in phonology, morphology and syntax. Psychological Science 6, 149-156.

Avrutin, S. and R. Thornton (1994) Distributivity and binding in child grammar. Linguistic Inquiry 25, 165-171.

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Crain, S. and Thornton, R.  (to appear, 2008) Cognitive constraints. In Patrick Hogan (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

Thornton, R., S. Crain and G. Tesan (2007). Principles, parameters and probability. In I. Gülzow and N. Gagarina (eds.) Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the Limits of Frequency as an Explanatory Concept (Studies on Language Acquisition). (pp.359-382) SOLA Series. De Gruyter.

Crain, S. and Thornton, R. (2006) Acquisition of syntax and semantics. (pp. 1073-1110). In M. Traxler and M. Gernsbacher (eds), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Second Edition. Elsevier.

Crain, S. and R. Thornton (2003) Acquisition of syntax. In L. Nadel (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Thornton, R. (1996) Elicited production. In H. Cairns, D. McDaniel and C. McKee (eds.) Methods for Assessing Children’s Syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Thornton, R. and Crain, S. (1994) Successful cyclic movement. (pp. 215-253) In T. Hoekstra and B. Schwartz (eds.) Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Crain, S. and R. Thornton (1991) Recharting the course of language acquisition: Studies in elicited production. (pp. 321-339) In N. Krasnegor, D. Rumbaugh, R. Schiefelbusch and M. Studdert-Kennedy (eds), Biobehavioral Foundations of Language Development. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, N.J.

Conference Proceedings and Working Papers

Jensen, B. and Thornton, R. (2008) Fragments of child grammar. In M. João Freitas and A. Gavarró Algueró (eds). Language Acquisition and Development: Papers from GALA 2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Thornton, Rosalind. (2007) Parameter Setting: Universal Grammar or Statistical Learning? In M. Laughren and I Mushin (Eds.) Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, Australia.  http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view.php?pid=UQ:13242

Conroy, S. and R. Thornton (2005) Children’s knowledge of Principle C in discourse. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Sixth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. (pp. 69-94) Tokyo:  Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company.

Tesan, G. and R. Thornton (2005) Emergence of do-support in child English. UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics 11.1. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club.

Thornton, R. (2004) Why continuity. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 28. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Tesan, G. and R. Thornton (2004) Overspecification in early English. Proceedings of GALA, Utrecht.

Tesan, G. and R. Thornton (2003) Small children’s big grammars. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Kituzi Syobo Publishing Company.

Kiguchi, H.  and R. Thornton (2002) Children’s knowledge of the interaction between binding principles and QR. In Y. Otsu (ed.) Proceedings of the  Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company.

Kiguchi, H.  and R. Thornton (2002) Children’s understanding of Principle B in ACD constructions. In Proceedings of NELS 32. GLSA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Thornton, R. (2001) A-movement in early English. In Y. Otsu (ed) Proceedings of the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company.

Crain, S and R. Thornton (1998) The Truth Value Judgment Task: Fundamentals of design. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 6, 61-70.

S. Crain and R. Thornton (1997) Why child grammar is flawful. In C. Koster and F. Wijnen (eds.) Proceedings of GALA 1995.

Guasti, M. T., R. Thornton and K. Wexler (1995) Children’s negative questions: The case of English. In D. MacLaughlin and S. McEwen (eds.) Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, 19. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Thornton, R. (1995) Children’s negative questions: A production/comprehension asymmetry. In J. Fuller, H. Han and D. Parkinson (eds.) Proceedings of ESCOL. Published by Cornell University.

Crain, S., L. Conway, and R. Thornton. (1995) D-Quantification in child language. In J. Fuller, H. Han and D. Parkinson (eds.) Proceedings of ESCOL.  Published by Cornell University.

Thornton, R. (1994) Rendaku in Japanese: An X’-phonology approach. In J. Abe, L. Ferro, L. LaPorte-Grimes, D. Takahashi, M. Yamashina (eds.) University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4.

Thornton, R. (1992) Adventures in long-distance moving: The Acquisition of         complex Wh-questions. 1990 PhD. dissertation. Distributed by UConn Working Papers in Linguistics, Storrs, Connecticut.

Crain, S. and R. Thornton (1988) Language acquisition in the absence of experience. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 2.