Anna Theakston

5.6k total citations
79 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Anna Theakston is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Theakston has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 32 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 25 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Anna Theakston's work include Language Development and Disorders (57 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (43 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (32 papers). Anna Theakston is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (57 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (43 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (32 papers). Anna Theakston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Anna Theakston's co-authors include Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello, Caroline F. Rowland, Julián M. Pine, Ben Ambridge, Danielle Matthews, Ceri Savage, Evan Kidd, Thea Cameron‐Faulkner and Silke Brandt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Psychological Review and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Anna Theakston

75 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anna Theakston United Kingdom 27 2.0k 924 872 464 395 79 2.5k
Maria Teresa Guasti Italy 29 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 970 1.1× 474 1.0× 382 1.0× 112 2.5k
Ann M. Peters United States 12 1.1k 0.5× 460 0.5× 627 0.7× 563 1.2× 279 0.7× 19 1.7k
Napoleon Katsos United Kingdom 25 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 650 0.7× 503 1.1× 271 0.7× 70 2.0k
Michelle Hollander United States 12 1.0k 0.5× 434 0.5× 483 0.6× 333 0.7× 282 0.7× 12 1.5k
Letitia Naigles United States 8 1.3k 0.7× 494 0.5× 516 0.6× 368 0.8× 278 0.7× 8 1.8k
Diane Lillo‐Martin United States 20 1.6k 0.8× 476 0.5× 959 1.1× 487 1.0× 110 0.3× 59 1.9k
Suzanne Flynn United States 14 723 0.4× 456 0.5× 695 0.8× 273 0.6× 239 0.6× 57 1.4k
Lise Menn United States 21 914 0.4× 718 0.8× 375 0.4× 747 1.6× 263 0.7× 57 1.6k
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli United Kingdom 20 1.4k 0.7× 923 1.0× 775 0.9× 347 0.7× 201 0.5× 103 2.0k
J. Kathryn Bock United States 16 1.8k 0.9× 1.9k 2.1× 1.1k 1.3× 1.0k 2.2× 601 1.5× 21 3.0k

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All Works

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Rowland, Caroline F., Gert Westermann, Anna Theakston, et al.. (2025). Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(1). 26–39. 2 indexed citations
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Brandt, Silke, et al.. (2025). The role of iconicity in children's production of adverbial clauses. Cognition. 259. 106119–106119. 1 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, et al.. (2024). Do complement clauses with first- or third-person perspective support false-belief reasoning? A training study with English-speaking 3-year-olds.. Developmental Psychology. 61(6). 1044–1062. 1 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, et al.. (2023). The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children. Infant and Child Development. 32(2). 2 indexed citations
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Engelmann, Felix, et al.. (2019). How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages. Cognitive Psychology. 110. 30–69. 27 indexed citations
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Ruiter, Laura de, Anna Theakston, Silke Brandt, & Elena Lieven. (2017). Iconicity affects children’s comprehension of complex sentences: The role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences. Cognition. 171. 202–224. 31 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, Evan Kidd, Caroline F. Rowland, & Anna Theakston. (2015). The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition. Journal of Child Language. 42(2). 239–273. 246 indexed citations
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Cameron‐Faulkner, Thea, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2015). The Relationship Between Infant Holdout and Gives, and Pointing. Infancy. 20(5). 576–586. 46 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, et al.. (2014). Young children’s understanding of denial.. Developmental Psychology. 50(8). 2061–2070. 47 indexed citations
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Ibbotson, Paul, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2012). Semantics of the Transitive Construction: Prototype Effects and Developmental Comparisons. Cognitive Science. 36(7). 1268–1288. 17 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, et al.. (2009). Can input explain children's me-for-I errors?. Journal of Child Language. 36(5). 1091–1114. 56 indexed citations
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Cameron‐Faulkner, Thea, Elena Lieven, & Anna Theakston. (2007). What part of no do children not understand? A usage-based account of multiword negation. Journal of Child Language. 34(2). 251–282. 57 indexed citations
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Matthews, Danielle, Elena Lieven, Anna Theakston, & Michael Tomasello. (2007). French children's use and correction of weird word orders: A constructivist account. Journal of Child Language. 34(2). 381–409. 25 indexed citations
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Matthews, Danielle & Anna Theakston. (2006). Errors of Omission in English‐Speaking Children's Production of Plurals and the Past Tense: The Effects of Frequency, Phonology, and Competition. Cognitive Science. 30(6). 1027–1052. 46 indexed citations
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Pine, Julián M., Caroline F. Rowland, Elena Lieven, & Anna Theakston. (2005). Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model: why the data on children's use of non-nominative 3psg subjects count against the ATOM. Journal of Child Language. 32(2). 269–289. 25 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, Elena Lieven, Julián M. Pine, & Caroline F. Rowland. (2002). Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘go’. Journal of Child Language. 29(4). 783–811. 50 indexed citations
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Theakston, Anna, Elena Lieven, Julián M. Pine, & Caroline F. Rowland. (2001). The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account. Journal of Child Language. 28(1). 127–152. 254 indexed citations

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