Amy Bidgood

Information

I am currently a researcher and part-time PhD student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. I am also a member of the LuCiD International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (www.lucid.ac.uk). I have been researching children’s language acquisition for the past 8 years, and have specialised in children’s phonological development (how they learn to pronounce the sounds of their language and put them together correctly to form words) and syntactic development (how they learn the grammar of their language). My PhD work focuses on how children learn to stop making grammatical errors in their speech.

In the School of Psychology, I have contributed to the second year module Language and thought, and the third year module Learning to communicate. In the Continuing Education Department, I teach the course How children learn language, both online and in the classroom.

Publications

Ambridge, B., Bidgood, A., Twomey, E., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F. & Freudenthal, D. (in press). Preemption versus Entrenchment: Towards a construction-general solution to the problem of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization. PLoS ONE

Bidgood, A., Ambridge, B., Pine, J.M. & Rowland, C.F. (2014). The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study. PLoS ONE, 9(5), e976

Ambridge, B., Pine, J.M., Rowland, C.F., Chang, F.  & Bidgood, A. (2013).  The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: Word learning, morphology and verb argument structure. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4: 47–62.

Vihman, M.M. and keren-Portnoy, T. and Whitaker, C. and Bidgood, A. and McGillion, M. (2013) - Late Talking Toddlers: Relating Early Phonological Development to Later Language Advance. York Papers in Linguistics, 2 (13).