Publications
Maya folk botany and knowledge devolution: Modernization and intra-community variability in the acquisition of folkbotanical knowledge
Shenton, J., Ross, N., Kohut, M. & Waxman, S.R.
Grammatical form and semantic context in verb learning
Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Early word learning and conceptual development: Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought
Waxman, S.R. & Leddon, E.
Verb learning from syntax alone at 21 months
Arunachalam, S., Escovar, E., Hansen, M.A. & Waxman, S.R.
What does it mean to 'live' and 'die'? A cross-linguistic analysis of parent-child conversations in English and Indonesian
Leddon, E. M., Waxman, S.R., & Medin, D.L.
Noun and verb learning in Mandarin-acquiring 24-month-olds
Leddon, E.M., Arunachalam, S., Waxman, S.R., Fu, X., Gong, H. & Wang, L.
What’s in the input? Frequent frames in child-directed speech offer distributional cues to grammatical categories in Spanish and English
Weisleder, A. & Waxman, S.R.
What paradox? Referential cues allow for infant use of phonetic detail in word learning
Fennell, C.T. & Waxman, S.R.
Human-centeredness is not a universal feature of young children's reasoning: Culture and experience matter when reasoning about biological entities
Medin, D.L., Waxman, S.R., Woodring, J. & Washinawatok, K.
Language and conceptual development
Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Anthropocentrism is not the first step in children's reasoning about the natural world
Herrmann, P., Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L.
Names will never hurt me? Naming and the development of racial and gender categories in preschool-aged children
Waxman, S.R.
Naming the animals that come to mind: Effects of culture and experience on category fluency
Winkler-Rhoades, N., Medin, D.L., Waxman, S.R., Woodring, J. & Ross, N.O.
Specifying the role of linguistic information in verb learning
Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old infants: An advantage of words over tones
Ferry, A., Hespos, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds
Arunachalam, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Different kinds of concepts and different kinds of words: What words do for human cognition
Waxman, S.R. & Gelman, S.A.
Language and experience influence children’s biological induction
Anggoro, F., Medin, D., & Waxman, S.R.
Diversity in the social, behavioral and economic science
Medin, D.L., Atran, S., Bang, M., Bennis, W., Henrich, J., Heine, S.J., Norenzayan, A., Ross, N., Unsworth, S. & Waxman, S.R.
Twenty-four-month-old infants’ interpretations of novel verbs and nouns in dynamic scenes
Waxman, S.R., Lidz, J.L., Braun, I. E., Lavin, T.
Taking development seriously: Theories cannot emerge from associations alone
Gelman, S.A. & Waxman, S.R.
Learning from infants’ first verbs
Waxman, S.R.
The dubbing ceremony revisited: Object naming and categorization in infancy and early childhood
Waxman, S.R.
Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations
Waxman, S.R. & Gelman, S.A.
Syntactic cues to word meaning: Initial expectations and the development of flexibility
Klibanoff, R.S. & Waxman, S.R.
