School of Psychological Science

		Dr Evan Kidd Charles La Trobe Research Fellow		Phone: +61 3 9479 2420 Fax: +61 3 9479 1956 e.kidd@latrobe.edu.au Room 459 George Singer Building
		BBSc(Hons) (La Trobe) PhD (La Trobe)

I was awarded my BBSc(Hons) in 1999 and my PhD (Psycholinguistics) in 2004, both from La Trobe University. I worked at the Max Planck Child Study Centre as a postdoctoral research associate between 2003 – 2005, and as a lecturer in psychology at The University of Manchester until 2008. I am currently on leave from The University of Manchester for 3 years to work at La Trobe as a Charles La Trobe Research Fellow.

My research is in psycholinguistics. My current research interests include sentence processing in children and adults, the acquisition of complex sentences, the acquisition of verb argument structure and verbal morphology, how children deal with lexical and syntactic ambiguity in acquisition, and the linguistic skills of children with imaginary companions. I conduct research on a number of languages, including English, German, Italian, and Finnish.

Memberships and Associations
International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Editorial Work
Book Reviews Editor: Journal of Child Language

Selected Publications

Kidd, E., Stewart, A., & Serratrice, L. (in press). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: The role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery. Journal of Child Language.

Kidd, E., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (in press). Lexical frequency and exemplar-based learning effects in language acquisition: Evidence from sentential complements. Language Sciences.

Lum, J. A. G., Kidd, E., Davis, S., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (in press). A longitudinal study of declarative and procedural memory in preschool children.  Australian Journal of Psychology.

Nitschke, S., Kidd, E., & Serratrice, L. (in press). First language transfer and long-term structural priming in comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Kidd, E., & Holler, J. (2009). Children’s use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity. Developmental Science, 12, 903 – 913.

Stewart, A. J., Haigh, M., & Kidd, E. (2009). An investigation into the online processing of counterfactual and indicative conditionals. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2113 – 2125.

Brandt, S., Kidd, E., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2009). The discourse bases of relativization: An  investigation of young German- and English-speaking children’s comprehension of relative clauses. Cognitive Linguistics, 20, 539 – 570.

Davies, R., Kidd, E., & Lander, K. (2009). Investigating the psycholinguistic correlates of   speechreading in preschool age children. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44, 164 – 174.

Stewart, A., Kidd, E., & Haigh, M. (2009). Early sensitivity to discourse-level anomalies: evidence from self-paced reading. Discourse Processes, 46, 46 – 69.

Kidd, E., & Lum, J. (2008). Sex differences in past tense overregularisation.  Developmental Science, 11, 882 - 889

Roby, A., & Kidd, E. (2008). The referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions. Developmental Science, 11, 531 – 540.

Kidd, E., & Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2008). The acquisition of the multiple senses of with. Linguistics, 46, 33 – 62.

Kidd, E., Brandt, S., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Object relatives made easy: A crosslinguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children’s processing of relative clauses. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 860 – 897.

Stewart, A., Holler, J., & Kidd, E. (2007). Shallow processing of ambiguous pronouns: Evidence fo delay. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1680 – 1696.

Cameron-Faulkner, T., & Kidd, E. (2007). I’m are what I’m are: the acquisition of 1ps-present BE. Cognitive Linguistics, 18, 1 – 22.

Kidd, E., & Bavin, E. L. (2007). Lexical and referential constraints on on-line spoken language comprehension: A comparison of adults and primary-school age children. First Language, 27, 29 – 52.