Ben Ambridge

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Ben Ambridge is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Ambridge has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Ben Ambridge's work include Language Development and Disorders (50 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (38 papers). Ben Ambridge is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (50 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (38 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (38 papers). Ben Ambridge collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Ben Ambridge's co-authors include Susan J. Pickering, Susan E. Gathercole, Caroline F. Rowland, Elena Lieven, Julián M. Pine, Anna Theakston, Franklin Chang, Evan Kidd, Adele Ε. Goldberg and Amy Bidgood and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Psychological Review and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Ambridge

61 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age. 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age.
    2004 1.2k citations Susan E. Gathercole, Susan J. Pickering et al. Developmental Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Ambridge United Kingdom 24 2.1k 1.5k 769 698 473 65 3.2k
Evan Kidd Australia 29 2.3k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 573 0.7× 515 0.7× 272 0.6× 121 3.1k
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Spain 43 3.2k 1.6× 3.7k 2.5× 492 0.6× 1.3k 1.8× 446 0.9× 183 5.1k
Jesse Snedeker United States 32 2.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 865 1.1× 946 1.4× 515 1.1× 109 3.2k
Janet F. McLean United Kingdom 19 1.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 482 0.6× 521 0.7× 435 0.9× 43 2.0k
Yosef Grodzinsky Israel 29 3.3k 1.6× 4.0k 2.7× 1.1k 1.4× 732 1.0× 359 0.8× 69 4.8k
Naama Friedmann Israel 36 3.0k 1.4× 2.8k 1.9× 688 0.9× 518 0.7× 271 0.6× 135 4.1k
Twila Tardif United States 30 2.6k 1.3× 1.0k 0.7× 298 0.4× 479 0.7× 122 0.3× 77 3.5k
Helen Smith Cairns United States 21 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 572 0.7× 778 1.1× 359 0.8× 51 2.6k
Walter J. B. van Heuven United Kingdom 28 3.4k 1.7× 3.5k 2.4× 785 1.0× 1.2k 1.7× 713 1.5× 50 4.8k
Falk Huettig Netherlands 33 2.1k 1.0× 2.8k 1.9× 340 0.4× 2.0k 2.8× 521 1.1× 128 4.0k

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All Works

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Ambridge, Ben, et al.. (2024). Large language models are better than theoretical linguists at theoretical linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics. 50(1-2). 33–48. 4 indexed citations
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Saviciute, Egle, Ben Ambridge, & Julián M. Pine. (2017). The roles of word-form frequency and phonological neighbourhood density in the acquisition of Lithuanian noun morphology. Journal of Child Language. 45(3). 641–672. 20 indexed citations
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Twomey, Katherine E., Franklin Chang, & Ben Ambridge. (2016). Lexical distributional cues, but not situational cues, are readily used to learn abstract locative verb-structure associations. Cognition. 153. 124–139. 8 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, Julián M. Pine, & Elena Lieven. (2015). Explanatory adequacy is not enough: Response to commentators on ‘Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn't help’. Language. 91(3). e116–e126. 3 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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Ambridge, Ben, et al.. (2015). Is Grammar Spared in Autism Spectrum Disorder? Data from Judgments of Verb Argument Structure Overgeneralization Errors. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 45(10). 3288–3296. 14 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, Julián M. Pine, & Elena Lieven. (2014). Child Language Acquisition: Why Universal Grammar Doesn't Help. Language. 90(3). e53–e90. 46 indexed citations
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Twomey, Katherine E., Franklin Chang, & Ben Ambridge. (2014). Do as I say, not as I do: A lexical distributional account of English locative verb class acquisition. Cognitive Psychology. 73. 41–71. 23 indexed citations
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Twomey, Katherine E., Franklin Chang, & Ben Ambridge. (2013). A distributional learning account of the acquisition of the locative alternation:corpus analysis and modeling. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 4 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, et al.. (2013). Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form?. Journal of Child Language. 41(4). 756–779. 31 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben & Caroline F. Rowland. (2013). Experimental methods in studying child language acquisition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 4(2). 149–168. 41 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, Julián M. Pine, & Caroline F. Rowland. (2012). Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors. Cognition. 123(2). 260–279. 55 indexed citations
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Rowland, Caroline F., Franklin Chang, Ben Ambridge, Julián M. Pine, & Elena Lieven. (2012). The development of abstract syntax: Evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost. Cognition. 125(1). 49–63. 144 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben. (2010). Children's judgments of regular and irregular novel past-tense forms: New data on the English past-tense debate.. Developmental Psychology. 46(6). 1497–1504. 26 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben, Caroline F. Rowland, & Julián M. Pine. (2008). Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex‐Question Production. Cognitive Science. 32(1). 222–255. 26 indexed citations
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Ambridge, Ben & Julián M. Pine. (2006). Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model using an elicited imitation paradigm. Journal of Child Language. 33(4). 879–898. 14 indexed citations
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Gathercole, Susan E., et al.. (2004). The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age.. Developmental Psychology. 40(2). 177–190. 1214 indexed citations breakdown →

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