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Ibbotson, Paul and Browne, William J. (2024). The effects of family, culture and sex on linguistic development across 20 languages. Developmental Science (Early access).

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Ibbotson, Paul (2023). Word Classes in Psycholinguistics. In: van Lier, Eva ed. The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford University Press, pp. 899–909.

Roque-Gutierrez, Ernesto and Ibbotson, Paul (2023). Working memory training improves children’s syntactic ability but not vice versa: A randomized control trial. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, article no. 105593.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2023). The Development of Executive Function: Mechanisms of Change and Functional Pressures. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(2) pp. 172–190.

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Ibbotson, Paul and Roque-Gutierrez, Ernesto (2023). The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(4) pp. 581–597.

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Messer, David; Kearvell‐White, Jennifer; Danielsson, Henrik; Faulkner, Dorothy; Henry, Lucy and Ibbotson, Paul (2022). The structure of executive functioning in 11 to 14 year olds with and without special educational needs. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40(3) pp. 453–470.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2022). Language Acquisition: The Basics. London: Routledge.

Ibbotson, Paul; Jimenez-Romero, Cristian and Page, Karen M. (2022). Dying to cooperate: the role of environmental harshness in human collaboration. Behavioral Ecology, 33(1) pp. 190–201.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2020). What it Takes to Talk: Exploring Developmental Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR], 64. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Ibbotson, Paul; Salnikov, Vsevolod and Walker, Richard (2019). A dynamic network analysis of emergent grammar. First Language, 39(6) pp. 652–680.

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Ibbotson, Paul; Hauert, Christoph and Walker, Richard (2019). Effort Perception is Made More Accurate with More Effort and When Cooperating with Slackers. Scientific reports, 9, article no. 17491.

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Ibbotson, Paul; López, Diana G. and McKane, Alan J. (2018). Goldilocks Forgetting in Cross-Situational Learning. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 9, article no. 1301.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2018). [Book review] Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Elena Tribushinina (Eds.), Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching. First Language, 38(2) pp. 218–221.

Ibbotson, Paul; Hartman, Rose M. and Björkenstam, Kristina Nilsson (2018). Frequency filter: an open access tool for analysing language development. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(10) pp. 1325–1339.

Ibbotson, Paul and Kearvell-White, Jennifer (2015). Inhibitory Control Predicts Grammatical Ability. PLoS ONE, 10(12), article no. e0145030.

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Theakston, Anna L.; Ibbotson, Paul; Freudenthal, Daniel; Lieven, Elena V. M. and Tomasello, Michael (2015). Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames. Cognitive Science, 39(6) pp. 1369–1395.

Ibbotson, Paul (2014). Little dictators: a developmental meta-analysis of prosocial behavior. Current Anthropology, 55(6) pp. 814–821.

Ibbotson, Paul (2014). Group level expression encoded in the individual. Commentary on "The cultural evolution of emergent group-level traits". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(3) pp. 261–262.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2013). The role of semantics, pre-emption and skew in linguistic distributions: the case of the un-construction. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, article no. 989.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2013). The scope of usage-based theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, article no. 255.

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Ibbotson, Paul; Elena, Lieven and MIchael, Tomasello (2013). The attention-grammar interface: eye-gaze cues structural choice in children and adults. Cognitive Linguistics, 24(3) pp. 457–481.

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Ibbotson, Paul; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena and Tomasello, Michael (2012). Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons. Cognitive Science, 36(7) pp. 1268–1288.

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Ibbotson, Paul and Tomasello, Michael (2012). Analogical mapping in construction learning. In: Robinson, Peter ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition. Abingdon: Routledge, p. 21.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2012). A new kind of language. The Psychologist, 25(2) pp. 122–125.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2012). Child language acquisition. In: Clayton, Dan ed. Language: A Student Handbook On Key Topics And Theories. London: English & Media Centre, pp. 117–133.

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Ibbotson, Paul (2011). Abstracting grammar from social–cognitive foundations: a developmental sketch of learning. Review of General Psychology, 15(4) pp. 331–343.

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Ibbotson, Paul; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena and Tomasello, Michael (2011). The role of pronoun frames in early comprehension of transitive constructions in English. Language Learning and Development, 7(1) pp. 24–39.

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Ibbotson, Paul and Tomasello, Michael (2009). Prototype constructions in early language acquisition. Language and Cognition, 1(1) pp. 59–85.

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