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

Unmasking “alive”: Children’s appreciation of a concept linking all living things

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

2009
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Journal of Cognition and Development
2009
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

A horse of a different color: Specifying with precision infants' mappings of novel nouns and adjectives

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

2009
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Child Development
2009
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Nouns, adjectives, and the aquisition of meaning: New evidence from Italian-acquiring children

Waxman, S.R., & Guasti, M.T.

2009
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Language Learning and Development
2009
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Tight and loose are not created equal: An asymmetry underlying the representation of fit in English and Korean speakers

Norbury, H.M., Waxman, S.R. & Song H.J.

2008
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Cognition
2008
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

How infants discover distinct word types and map them to distinct meanings

Waxman, S.R.

2008
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Infant Pathways to Language
2008
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

The role of representational status and item complexity in parent-child conversations about pictures and objects

Gelman, S., Waxman, S. & Kleinberg, F.

2008
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Cognitive Development
2008
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Naming practices and the acquisition of key biological concepts: Evidence from English and Indonesian

Anggoro, F.K., Waxman, S.R. & Medin, D.L.

2008
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Psychological Science
2008
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Taking stock as theories take shape

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

2008
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Developmental Science
2008
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Why nouns trump verbs in word learning: new evidence from children and adults in the Human Simulation Paradigm

Piccin, T.B., & Waxman, S.R.

2007
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Language Learning and Development
2007
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Words (but not tones) facilitate object categorization: Evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds

Fulkerson, A.L. & Waxman, S.R.

2007
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Cognition
2007
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Interpreting asymmetries of projection in children's inductive reasoning

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

2007
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Inductive Reasoning
2007
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Looking beyond looks: Comments on Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher, “When looks are everything: Appearance similarity versus kind information in early induction”

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

2007
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Psychological Science
2007
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Folkbiological reasoning from a cross-cultural developmental perspective: Early essentialist notions are shaped by cultural beliefs

Waxman, S.R., Medin, D.L. & Ross, N.

2007
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Developmental Psychology
2007
Cognitive Development
Learning About the Natural World
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Experience and cultural models matter: Placing firm limits on childhood anthropocentrism

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

2007
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Human Development
2007
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

With referential cues, infants successfully use phonetic detail in word learning

Fennell, C.T., Waxman, S.R. & Weisleder, A.

2007
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Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development
2007
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Déjà vu all over again: Re-revisiting the conceptual status of early word learning: Comment on Smith and Samuelson (2006)

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

2006
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Developmental Psychology
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Linking object names and object categories: Words (but not tones) facilitate object categorization in 6- and 12-month-olds

Fulkerson, A.L., Waxman, S.R. & Seymour, J.M.

2006
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Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Tudo tinha um nome, e de cada nome nascia um novo pensamento: vinculos entre aprendizagem de palavras e organização conceptual no início da aquisição da linguagem

Waxman, S.R.

2006
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Aquisição da Linguagem e Problemas do Desenvolvimento Linguístico
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

East and west: A role for culture in the acquisition of nouns and verbs

Lavin, T.A., Hall, D.G. & Waxman, S.R.

2006
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Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Early word learning

Waxman, S.R. & Lidz, J.

2006
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Handbook of Child Psychology
2006
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Finding the points of contact: Language acquisition in children raised in monolingual, bilingual and multilingual environments

Waxman, S.R.

2006
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Childhood Bilingualism - Research on Infancy Through School Age
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Infants of 14 months use phonetic detail in novel words embedded in naming phrases

Fennell, C.T. & Waxman, S.R.

2006
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Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development
2006
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Giyoo Hatano

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

2006
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Cognitive Studies
2006
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Core knowledge, naming and the acquisition of the fundamental (folk)biologic concept alive

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

2006
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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science
2006
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Afterword: Symbols redefined: Developmental and comparative perspectives

Namy, L.L. & Waxman, S.R.

2005
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Symbol use and symbolic representation: Developmental and comparative perspectives
2005