2018

Messenger, Katherine and Fisher, Cynthia (2018) Mistakes weren't made : three-year-olds’ comprehension of novel-verb passives provides evidence for early abstract syntax. Cognition, 178 . pp. 118-132. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.05.002

2017

Hardy, Sophie, Messenger, Katherine and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2017) Aging and syntactic representations : evidence of preserved syntactic priming and lexical boost. Psychology and Aging, 32 (6). pp. 588-596. doi:10.1037/pag0000180

2016

Branigan, Holly and Messenger, Katherine (2016) Consistent and cumulative effects of syntactic experience in children's sentence production : evidence for error-based implicit learning. Cognition, 157 . pp. 250-256. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.09.004

2015

Messenger, Katherine, Yuan, Sylvia and Fisher, Cynthia (2015) Learning verb syntax via listening : new evidence from 22-month-olds. Language Learning and Development, 11 (4). pp. 356-368. doi:10.1080/15475441.2014.978331

2012

Messenger, Katherine, Branigan, Holly P. and Mclean, Janet F. (2012) Is children's acquisition of the passive a staged process? Evidence from six- and nine-year-olds' production of passives. Journal of Child Language, 39 (5). pp. 991-1016. doi:10.1017/S0305000911000377

Messenger, Katherine, Branigan, Holly P., McLean, Janet F. and Sorace, Antonella (2012) Is young children’s passive syntax semantically constrained? Evidence from syntactic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 66 (4). pp. 568-587. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.03.008

2011

Messenger, Katherine, Branigan, Holly P. and McLean, Janet F. (2011) Evidence for (shared) abstract structure underlying children’s short and full passives. Cognition, 121 (2). pp. 268-274. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.07.003