Publications

Articles in submission with pre-prints

Schulz, J., Murphy, V. & Wonnacott, E. (accepted). The role of input variability in generalizing phrasal constructions featuring non-adjacent dependencies: a German as a foreign language primary school intervention. Pedagogical Linguistics preprint, data, code, materials
Schulz, J., Murphy, V. & Wonnacott, E. (under review). Input variability in German as a foreign language verb-argument construction learning: a primary school intervention preprint, data, code, materials
Viviani, E., Ramscar, M., Wonnacott, E., Go above and beyond: Does input variability affect children’s ability to learn spatial adpositions in a novel language? Stage 1 manuscript recommended at PCI RR, June 2022 OSF repository Registered report
Shi,J., Hsiao,Y., Yang,Y., Wonnacott, E. & Nation, K. (under review) Learning from the input: a corpus-based investigation of Chinese classifiers in children’s books and child-directed speech. preprint OSF repository

Journal Articles

Silvey,C., Dienes Z., Wonnacott, E., (2024) Bayes factors for logistic (mixed-effect) models Psychological Methods https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000714 preprint Rscripts
Brekelmans, G., Evans, B. G., & Wonnacott, E. (2024) Training child learners on non-native vowel contrasts: the role of talker variability. Language learning
https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12677 Preprint. Preregistration + R code + data
Schulz, J. & Wonnacott, E., (2024). Pragmatic competence and pragmatic tolerance in foreign language acquisition – revisiting the case of scalar implicatures. Applied Psycholinguistics. Preregistration + R code + data https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000274
Viviani, E., Ramscar, M., Wonnacott, E., (2024) The effects of linear order in category learning: Some replications of Ramscar et al., (2010) and their implications for replicating training studies. Cognitive Science : http://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13445 pre-print data and analysis pre-registration
Motamedi, Y., Murgiano, M., Grzyb, B., Gu, Y., Kewenig, V., Brieke, R., Marshall, C, Wonnacott, E, Perniss P., Vigliocco, G. (2024). Language development beyond the here-and-now: iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication. Child Development http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14099 data and analysis
Samara, A., Wonnacott, E., Saxena, G., Maitreyee, R., Fazekas, J., Ambridge, A., (2024) Learners restrict their linguistic generalizations using preemption but not entrenchment: Evidence from artificial language learning studies with adults and children, and a computational model. Psychologocial Reveiw preprint Rcode +data
Schulz, J., Hamilton, C. , Wonnacott, E., Murphy, V. (2023). The impact of multi-word units in early foreign language learning and teaching contexts. A systematic review. Review of Education https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3413
Brekelmans, G., Lavan, N., Clayards, M. & Wonnacott, E. (2022). Does high talker variability improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts? A replication. Journal of Memory and Language. Vol 126 (Registered Report). Manscuript(finalStage2). Supplementary files on OSF. Oasis Accessible Summary
Brown, H., Smith, K., Samara, A., & Wonnacott, E. (2021). Semantic cues in language learning: An artificial language study with adult and child learners. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1995612 Rcode data
Booton, S. A., Wonnacott, E., Hodgkiss, A., Mathers, S., & Murphy, V. A. (2021). Children’s Knowledge of Multiple Word Meanings: Which Factors Count and For Whom?. Applied Linguistics. https://doi:10.1093/applin/amab028
Singh, D., Wonnacott, E., & Samara, A. (2021). Statistical and explicit learning of graphotactic patterns with no phonological counterpart: Evidence from an artificial lexicon study with 6–7-year-olds and adults. Journal of Memory and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104265 Preprint Rcode & data
Vujović, M., Ramscar, M., & Wonnacott, E. (2021). Language learning as uncertainty reduction: The role of prediction error in linguistic generalization and item-learning. Journal of Memory and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104231 Preprint R code & data
Joseph, H., Wonnacott, E., & Nation, K. (2021). Online inference making and comprehension monitoring in children during reading: evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021821999007 Link to the paper. R code data and preprint.
Motamedi, Y., Murgiano, M., Perniss, P., Wonnacott, E., Marshall, C., Goldin‐Meadow, S., & Vigliocco, G. (2020). Linking language to sensory experience: onomatopoeia in early language. Developmental Science, e13066. Link to the paper. OSF repository with code & data.

Dong H., Clayards M., Brown H., Wonnacott E. (2019). The effects of high versus low talker variability and individual aptitude on phonetic training of Mandarin lexical tones. PeerJ 7:e7191 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7191 Rcode & data
Sinkeviciute, R., Brown, H., Brekelmans, G. & Wonnacott, E. (2019) The role of input variability and learner age in second language vocabulary learning. Journal of Second Language Studies, 1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000263 Preprint Rcode data OASIS accessible summary
Samara, A. , Singh, D., & Wonnacott, E. (2018). Statistical learning and spelling: Evidence from an incidental learning experiment with children. Cognition, 128, 25-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.09.005 Preprint Rcode data
Ambridge, B. Barak, L. Wonnacott, E. Bannard, C., & Sala, G. (2018) Effects of both preemption and entrenchment in the retreat from verb overgeneralization errors: Four reanalyses, an extended replication, and a meta-analytic synthesis Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.133
Giannakopoulou, A., Brown, H., Clayards, M., & Wonnacott, E. (2017) High or Low? Comparing high and low-variability phonetic training in adult and child second language learners. PeerJ 5:e3209; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3209 Rcode data OASIS accessible summary
Wonnacott, E., Brown, H., & Nation, K. (2017) Skewing the evidence: The effect of input structure on child and adult learning of lexically-based patterns in an artificial language. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, 46-48. 10.1016/j.jml.2017.01.005 Rcode data
Samara, A. Smith, K., Brown, H., & Wonnacott, E. (2017) Acquiring variation in an artificial language: children and adults are sensitive to socially-conditioned linguistic variation. Cognitive Psychology, 94, 85-114. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2017.02.004 Rcode data
Smith, K., Perfors, A., Fehér, O., Samara, A., Swoboda, K., & Wonnacott, E. (2017). Language learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 372(1711), 20160051. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0051
Fehér, O., Wonnacott, E., & Smith, K. (2016). Structural priming in artificial languages and the regularisation of unpredictable variation. Journal of Memory and Language, 91, 158–180. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.06.002
Wonnacott, E., Joseph, H. S. S. L., Adelman, J. S. and Nation, K. (2016) Is children’s reading “good enough”? Links between online processing and comprehension as children read syntactically ambiguous sentences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69 (5). pp. 855-879. ISSN 1747-0218 doi: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1011176
Joseph, H. S., Wonnacott, E., Forbes, P., & Nation, K. (2014). Becoming a written word: Eye movements reveal order of acquisition effects following incidental exposure to new words during silent reading. Cognition, 133(1), 238-248. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.015
Wonnacott, E., Boyd, J.K, Thomson. J.J., & Goldberg, A.E. (2012). Verb argument structure. Input effects on the acquisition of a novel phrasal construction in 5 year olds. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 458-478. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.11.004
Wonnacott, E. (2011) Balancing generalization and lexical conservatism: An artificial language study with child learners. Journal of Memory and Language, 65, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.03.001
Smith, K., & Wonnacott, E. (2010). Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning. Cognition, 116, 444-449. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.06.004
Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Wonnacott, E. (2010) Variability, negative evidence, and the acquisition of verb argument constructions. Journal of Child Language, 37, 607-642. doi: 10.1017/S0305000910000012
Wonnacott, E., Newport, E.L., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2008). Acquiring and processing verb argument structure: Distributional learning in a miniature language. Cognitive Psychology, 56, 165-209. 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.04.002
Wonnacott, E., & Watson, G. (2008). Acoustic emphasis in four year olds. Cognition, 107, 1093-101. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.005
Wonnacott, E., & Newport, E.L. (2005). Novelty and regularization: The effect of novel instances on rule formation. In A. Brugos, M.R. Clark-Cotton, and S. Ha (eds.), BUCLD 29: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Book Chapters

Wonnacott, E. (2013) Statistical Mechanisms in Language Acquisition. In P. Binder & K. Smith (eds.). The Language Phenomenon, Springer. [pdf]
Perfors, A. & Wonnacott, E. (2011) Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition. In: Arnon, Inbal and Clarke, Eve V., (eds.) Experience, Variation and Generalization : Learning a First Language. Amsterdam. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 277-294.