Stephen Crain

Stephen Crain

Macquarie University

H-index: 58

Oceania-Australia

About Stephen Crain

Stephen Crain, With an exceptional h-index of 58 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Macquarie University, specializes in the field of Linguistics, Child language, Universal Grammar. Logic.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

To acquire a recursive grammar, children start with a recursive procedure (MERGE)

Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd

How adults and children interpret disjunction under negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A cross-linguistic comparison

The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese

Children’s interpretation of sentences containing multiple scalar terms

The deep forces that shape language and the poverty of the stimulus

Universal Grammar and language acquisition

Negative sentences with disjunction in child Catalan

Stephen Crain Information

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Citations(all)

17842

Citations(since 2020)

3365

Cited By

15489

hIndex(all)

58

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

166

i10Index(since 2020)

84

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Stephen Crain Skills & Research Interests

Linguistics

Child language

Universal Grammar. Logic

Top articles of Stephen Crain

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

To acquire a recursive grammar, children start with a recursive procedure (MERGE)

Multifaceted Multilingualism

Iain Giblin

Peng Zhou

Cory Bill

Jiawei Shi

Stephen Crain

2024/4/15

Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd

Johan J Bolhuis

Stephen Crain

Ian Roberts

2023/6

How adults and children interpret disjunction under negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A cross-linguistic comparison

Language Learning and Development

Elena Pagliarini

Oana Lungu

Angeliek van Hout

Lilla Pintér

Balázs Surányi

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2022/1/2

The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese

First Language

Na Gao

Peng Zhou

Rosalind Thornton

Stephen Crain

2021/12

Children’s interpretation of sentences containing multiple scalar terms

Journal of Semantics

Cory Bill

Elena Pagliarini

Jacopo Romoli

Lyn Tieu

Stephen Crain

2021/11

The deep forces that shape language and the poverty of the stimulus

A Companion to Chomsky

Stephen Crain

Iain Giblin

Rosalind Thornton

2021/4/27

Universal Grammar and language acquisition

A Companion to Chomsky

Stephen Crain

Rosalind Thornton

2021/4/27

Negative sentences with disjunction in child Catalan

Language Acquisition

Elena Pagliarini

Marta Andrada Reyes

Maria Teresa Guasti

Stephen Crain

Anna Gavarró

2021/4/3

When OR is assigned a conjunctive inference in child language

Language acquisition

Haiquan Huang

Stephen Crain

2020/1/2

The interpretation of disjunction in the scope of dou in child Mandarin

Frontiers in Psychology

Shasha An

Peng Zhou

Stephen Crain

2020/12/15

Testing theories of plural meanings

Cognition

Lyn Tieu

Cory Bill

Jacopo Romoli

Stephen Crain

2020/12/1

Negation and Free Choice Inference in Child Mandarin

Frontiers in Psychology

Haiquan Huang

Peng Zhou

Stephen Crain

2020/10/26

Like dishwashing detergents, all analogies are not the same: a commentary on Ambridge (2020)

First Language

Loes Koring

Iain Giblin

Rosalind Thornton

Stephen Crain

2020/10

Disjunction triggers exhaustivity implicatures in 4-to 5-year-olds: Investigating the role of access to alternatives

Journal of Semantics

Nicole Gotzner

David Barner

Stephen Crain

2020/5/7

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