Evan Kidd

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
121 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Evan Kidd is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Evan Kidd has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 62 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 26 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Evan Kidd's work include Language Development and Disorders (71 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (54 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (52 papers). Evan Kidd is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (71 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (54 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (52 papers). Evan Kidd collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Evan Kidd's co-authors include Seamus Donnelly, Morten H. Christiansen, Rowena Garcia, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello, Edith L. Bavin, Joanne Arciuli, Caroline F. Rowland, Ben Ambridge and Anna Theakston and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Evan Kidd

109 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

How diverse is child language acquisition research?

2022 140 citations Evan Kidd, Rowena Garcia First Language profile →
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn-Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development

2021 82 citations Seamus Donnelly, Evan Kidd profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Evan Kidd Australia	29	2.3k	1.6k	573	515	330	121	3.1k
Ben Ambridge United Kingdom	24	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	769 1.3×	698 1.4×	247 0.7×	65	3.2k
Casey Lew‐Williams United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	895 0.6×	333 0.6×	403 0.8×	194 0.6×	67	2.1k
Jesse Snedeker United States	32	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	865 1.5×	946 1.8×	127 0.4×	109	3.2k
Jill G. de Villiers United States	24	2.1k 0.9×	850 0.5×	569 1.0×	487 0.9×	192 0.6×	43	2.6k
Janet G. van Hell United States	34	3.2k 1.4×	3.2k 2.0×	832 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	266 0.8×	115	4.5k
Helen Smith Cairns United States	21	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	572 1.0×	778 1.5×	171 0.5×	51	2.6k
Maria Teresa Guasti Italy	29	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	970 1.7×	474 0.9×	122 0.4×	112	2.5k
Janet F. McLean United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	482 0.8×	521 1.0×	202 0.6×	43	2.0k
Napoleon Katsos United Kingdom	25	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	650 1.1×	503 1.0×	115 0.3×	70	2.0k
Laurie Beth Feldman United States	34	3.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.7×	601 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	412 1.2×	83	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Evan Kidd

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kidd, Evan, et al.. (2025). A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the Acquisition Sketch Project. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 45(3). 391–415.

Passmore, Sam, Birgit Hellwig, Rowena Garcia, & Evan Kidd. (2025). The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition. Open Mind. 9. 501–514. 2 indexed citations

Thothathiri, Malathi, Evan Kidd, & Caroline F. Rowland. (2025). The role of executive function in the processing and acquisition of syntax. Royal Society Open Science. 12(3). 201497–201497. 1 indexed citations

Verhoef, Ellen, Fenja Schlag, Philip S. Dale, et al.. (2025). Developing language in a developing body: genetic associations of infant gross motor behaviour and self‐care/symbolic actions with emerging language abilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 67(1). 41–54.

Donnelly, Seamus, Evan Kidd, Jay Verkuilen, & Caroline F. Rowland. (2024). The separability of early vocabulary and grammar knowledge. Journal of Memory and Language. 141. 104586–104586.

Chan, Angel, et al.. (2024). Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Brain and Language. 254. 105425–105425.

Donnelly, Seamus, Caroline F. Rowland, Franklin Chang, & Evan Kidd. (2024). A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming. Cognitive Science. 48(4). e13431–e13431. 1 indexed citations

Kidd, Evan, Joanne Arciuli, Morten H. Christiansen, & Michael Smithson. (2023). The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development. Cognitive Development. 66. 101335–101335. 5 indexed citations

Garcia, Rowena, et al.. (2023). Finding your voice: Voice-specific effects in Tagalog reveal the limits of word order priming. Cognition. 236. 105424–105424. 6 indexed citations

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Levshina, Natalia, et al.. (2023). Why we need a gradient approach to word order. Linguistics. 61(4). 825–883. 9 indexed citations

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Rowland, Caroline F., et al.. (2023). How does linguistic context influence word learning?. Journal of Child Language. 50(6). 1374–1393. 1 indexed citations

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Kidd, Evan & Rowena Garcia. (2022). Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline. First Language. 42(6). 837–851. 5 indexed citations

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Kidd, Evan & Rowena Garcia. (2022). How diverse is child language acquisition research?. First Language. 42(6). 703–735. 140 indexed citations breakdown →

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Garcia, Rowena & Evan Kidd. (2022). Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech. Linguistics. 60(6). 1855–1906. 5 indexed citations

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Garcia, Rowena, et al.. (2022). Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Linguistics Vanguard. 11(s3). 295–306. 8 indexed citations

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Garcia, Rowena, et al.. (2021). Developmental effects in the online use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence processing: Evidence from Tagalog. Cognition. 216. 104859–104859. 14 indexed citations

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Rowland, Caroline F., et al.. (2020). Evaluating Word Embeddings for Language Acquisition. Research portal (Tilburg University). 38–42. 2 indexed citations

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Garcia, Rowena & Evan Kidd. (2020). The Acquisition of the Tagalog Symmetrical Voice System: Evidence from Structural Priming. Language Learning and Development. 16(4). 399–425. 16 indexed citations

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Kidd, Evan. (2011). Implicit statistical learning is directly associated with the acquisition of syntax.. Developmental Psychology. 48(1). 171–184. 190 indexed citations

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Kidd, Evan, Andrew Stewart, & Ludovica Serratrice. (2010). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: the role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery. Journal of Child Language. 38(1). 222–234. 40 indexed citations

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