| In defense of the child innovator A Cournane Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax 23, 10, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Modal development: Input-divergent L1 acquisition in the direction of diachronic reanalysis A Cournane University of Toronto (Canada), 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| In search of L1 evidence for diachronic reanalysis: Mapping modal verbs A Cournane Language Acquisition 21 (1), 103-117, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| A developmental view on incrementation in language change A Cournane Theoretical Linguistics 45 (3-4), 127-150, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Leaving obligations behind: Epistemic incrementation in preschool English A Cournane, AT Pérez-Leroux Language Learning and Development 16 (3), 270-291, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Revisiting the epistemic gap: Evidence for a grammatical source A Cournane Proceedings of the 39th annual Boston University conference on language …, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Learning what must and can must and can mean A Van Dooren, A Dieuleveut, A Cournane, V Hacquard the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, 225-234, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Themes and variations in the expression of modality V Hacquard, A Cournane Proceedings of NELS 46, 21-42, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts A Cournane Language Acquisition 28 (3), 215-240, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Learning modals: A grammatical perspective A Cournane Language and Linguistics Compass 14 (10), 1-22, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| The grammatical source of missing epistemic meanings from modal verbs in child BCS D Veselinović, A Cournane Formal approaches to Slavic linguistics 26, 417-436, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals: The role of the input A Van Dooren, A Dieuleveut, A Cournane, V Hacquard Journal of Semantics 39 (4), 581-616, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Acquiring the force of modals: Sig you guess what sig means A Dieuleveut, A Van Dooren, A Cournane, V Hacquard Proceedings of the 42nd Annual to the Boston University Conference on …, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Finding the force: How children discern possibility and necessity modals A Dieuleveut, A Van Dooren, A Cournane, V Hacquard Natural Language Semantics 30 (3), 269-310, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Lexical aspect and modal flavor in Dutch A van Dooren, M Tulling, A Cournane, V Hacquard Proceedings from the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language …, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Using synchronic microvariation to understand pathways of change: Subject clitic doubling in Romance dialects A Cournane Proceedings of the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| The grammaticalization of subject clitics in Quebec French: An analysis of reanalysis A Cournane University of Toronto, 2008 | 6 | 2008 |
| The role of “fake” past tense in acquiring counterfactuals M Tulling, A Cournane Proceedings of the 2019 Amsterdam Colloquium, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Neural correlates of modal displacement and discourse-updating under (un) certainty M Tulling, R Law, A Cournane, L Pylkkänen Eneuro 8 (1), 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals A Dieuleveut, A Cournane, V Hacquard Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1, 136-146, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
