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Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Very young infants’ responses to human and non-human primates’ vocalizations

Ferguson, B., Perszyk, D.R. & Waxman, S.R.

2014
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2014
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Let’s see a boy and a balloon: Argument labels and syntactic frame in verb learning

Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.

2014
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Language Acquisition
2014
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Learning words from pictures: 15- and 17-month-old infants appreciate the referential and symbolic links among words, pictures, and objects

Geraghty, K., Waxman, S.R. & Gelman, S.A.

2014
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Cognitive Development
2014
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Naming the living things: Linguistic, experiential and cultural factors in Wichí and Spanish speaking children

Taverna, A.S., Waxman, S.R., Medin, D.L., Moscoloni, N. & Peralta, O.A.

2014
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Journal of Cognition and Culture
2014
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Infants use known verbs to learn novel nouns: Evidence from 15- and 19-month-olds

Ferguson, B., Graf, E. & Waxman, S.R.

2014
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Cognition
2014
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Children (4-7 years)

Humans (really) are animals: picture-book reading influences 5-year-old urban children’s construal of the relation between humans and non-human animals

Waxman, S.R., Herrmann, P., Woodring, J. & Medin, D.

2014
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Frontiers in Psychology
2014
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Doing more with less: Verb learning in Korean-acquiring 24-month-olds

Arunachalam, S. Leddon, E., Song, H., Lee, Y. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics
2013
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants

Ferry, A., Hespos, S. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Communication and categorization: New insights into the relation between speech, labels, and concepts for infants

Ferguson, B. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2013
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Are nouns learned before verbs? Infants provide insight into a long-standing debate

Waxman, S.R. Fu, X., Arunachalam, S. Leddon, E., Geraghty, K. & Song, H.

2013
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Child Development Perspectives
2013
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Epistemologies in the text of children’s books: Native and non-Native authored books

Dehghani, M., Bang, M., Medin, D. L., Marin, A., Leddon, E. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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International Journal of Science Education
2013
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Building a better bridge

Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Oxford University Press
2013
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Teleological reasoning about nature: Intentional design or relational perspectives?

Ojalehto, B., Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L.

2013
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2013
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

“Shall we blick?”: Novel words highlight actors' underlying intentions for 14-month-old infants

Chen, M.L. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Developmental Psychology
2013
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Out of sight, but not out of mind: 21-month-olds use syntactic information to learn verbs even in the absence of a corresponding event

Arunachalam, S., Escovar, E., Hansen, M.A. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Language and Cognitive Processes
2013
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Commentary on special section: Deficit or difference? Interpreting diverse developmental paths

Callanan, M. & Waxman, S.R.

2013
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Developmental Psychology
2013
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

One animal among many? Children’s understanding of the relation between humans and nonhuman animals

Leddon, E.M., Waxman, S.R., Medin, D.L, Bang, M. & Washinawatok, K.

2012
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Psychology of Culture - Nova Science Publishers
2012
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About Race
Infant (0-1 years)

Developing gender- and race-based categories in infants: Evidence from 7- and 11-month-olds

Waxman, S.R. & Grace, A.D.

2012
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Psychology of Culture - Nova Science Publishers
2012
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Social categories are shaped by social experience

Waxman, S.R.

2012
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2012
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Learning about language: Acquiring the spoken and written word

Waxman, S.R. & Goswami, U.

2012
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Early Childhood Development and Later Outcome
2012
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Words are not merely features: Only consistently applied nouns guide 4-year-olds’ inferences about object categories

Graham, S.A., Booth, A.E. & Waxman, S.R.

2012
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Language Learning and Development
2012
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Core folkbiological concepts: New evidence from Wichi children and adults

Taverna, A.S., Waxman, S.R., Medin, D.L. & Peralta, O.

2012
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Journal of Cognition and Culture
2012
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Cultural differences in children's ecological reasoning and psychological closeness to nature: Evidence from Menominee and European-American children

Unsworth, S.J., Levin, W., Bang, M., Washinawatok, K., Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L.

2012
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Journal of Cognition and Culture
2012
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

When humans become animals: Development of the animal category in early childhood

Herrmann, P., Medin, D.L., & Waxman, S.R.

2012
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Cognition
2012
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Can adverbs call attention to manner of motion for 2-year-olds learning verbs?

Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K. & Waxman, S.R.

2011
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Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
2011