Elena Lieven

14.1k total citations
166 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Elena Lieven is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Lieven has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 55 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 47 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Elena Lieven's work include Language Development and Disorders (125 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (87 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (49 papers). Elena Lieven is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (125 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (87 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (49 papers). Elena Lieven collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Elena Lieven's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Julián M. Pine, Anna Theakston, Caroline F. Rowland, Ben Ambridge, Thea Cameron‐Faulkner, Danielle Matthews, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Silke Brandt and Evan Kidd and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elena Lieven

160 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Peers

Elena Lieven

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Eve V. Clark United States

Julián M. Pine United Kingdom

Dan I. Slobin United States

Antonella Sorace United Kingdom

Holly P. Branigan United Kingdom

Lois Bloom United States

John C. Trueswell United States

Katherine Demuth Australia

Kathryn Bock United States

Victor S. Ferreira United States

Eve V. Clark United States

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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

Lieven, Elena, et al.. (2024). Adult stuttering prevalence I: Systematic review and identification of stuttering in large populations. Journal of Fluency Disorders. 83. 106085–106085. 3 indexed citations

Jensen, Keith, et al.. (2024). Give some, keep some, put some: The language of sharing in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 249. 106066–106066. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Chen, et al.. (2024). Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis. First Language. 44(4). 395–421.

Uglik‐Marucha, Nora, et al.. (2024). The Knowledge of Autism Questionnaire-UK: Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 55(7). 2436–2451. 1 indexed citations

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

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

Lieven, Elena & Sabine Stoll. (2013). Early Communicative Development in Two Cultures: A Comparison of the Communicative Environments of Children from Two Cultures. Human Development. 56(3). 178–206. 27 indexed citations

Ibbotson, Paul, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2013). The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. Journal of Child Language. 41(3). 705–723. 7 indexed citations

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Salomo, Dorothé, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2012). Children's ability to answer different types of questions. Journal of Child Language. 40(2). 469–491. 13 indexed citations

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Lieven, Elena, et al.. (2012). Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions*. Journal of Child Language. 40(3). 656–671. 4 indexed citations

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Matthews, Danielle, et al.. (2012). Two‐ and Four‐Year‐Olds Learn to Adapt Referring Expressions to Context: Effects of Distracters and Feedback on Referential Communication. Topics in Cognitive Science. 4(2). 184–210. 42 indexed citations

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Stoll, Sabine, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, & Elena Lieven. (2009). Lexically Restricted Utterances in Russian, German, and English Child‐Directed Speech. Cognitive Science. 33(1). 75–103. 45 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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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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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2004). Training 2;6‐year‐olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. Developmental Science. 7(1). 48–55. 29 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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Pine, Julián M., Elena Lieven, & Caroline F. Rowland. (1997). Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage. Child Development. 68(5). 807–819. 22 indexed citations

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Lieven, Elena. (1984). Interaction Style and Children's Language Learning.. Topics in Language Disorders. 4(4). 15–23. 6 indexed citations

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