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

The effects of naming practices on children's understanding of living things

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

2005
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Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2005
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Conceptual information permeates word learning in infancy

Booth, A.E., Waxman, S.R. & Huang, Y.T.

2005
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Developmental Psychology
2005
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Consistent (but not variable) names as invitations to form object categories: New evidence from 12-month-old infants

Waxman, S.R. & Braun, I.E.

2005
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Cognition
2005
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Mother-child conversations about pictures and objects: Referring to categories and individuals

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

2005
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Child Development
2005
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Why is the concept "Living Thing" so elusive? Concepts, languages, and the development of folkbiology

Waxman, S.R.

2005
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Categorization Inside and Outside the Laboratory: Essays in Honor of Douglas L. Medin
2005
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Reaffirming the poverty of the stimulus argument: A reply to the replies

Lidz, J. & Waxman, S.R.

2004
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Cognition
2004
Cognitive Development
Learning About Race
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought: Links between early word-learning and conceptual organization

Waxman, S.R.

2004
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From Many Strands: Weaving a Lexicon
2004
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

From many strands: Weaving a lexicon

Hall, D.G. & Waxman, S.R.

2004
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MIT Press
2004
Learning About the Natural World
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

The development of folkbiology: A cross-cultural view

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

2004
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International Journal of Psychology
2004
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

What infants know about syntax but couldn’t have learned: Experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months

Lidz, J., Waxman, S.R. & Freedman, J.

2003
|
Cognition
2003
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Preschoolers’ use of form class cues to learn descriptive proper names

Hall, D.G., Waxman, S.R., Bredart, S. & Nicolay, A.

2003
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Child Development
2003
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Mapping words to the world in infancy: Infants’ expectations for count nouns and adjectives

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

2003
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Journal of Cognition and Development
2003
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Bringing theories of word learning in line with the evidence

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

2003
|
Cognition
2003
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

The origins and evolution of links between word learning and conceptual organization: New evidence from 11-month-olds

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

2003
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Developmental Science
2003
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Links between object categorization and naming: Origins and emergence in human infants

Waxman, S.R.

2002
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Early Category and Concept Development: Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion
2002
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Not by perception alone: Conceptual and semantic factors underlying children's extension of novel adjectives

Waxman, S.R.

2002
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Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
2002
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Patterns of spontaneous production of novel words and gestures within an experimental setting in children ages 1;6 and 2;2

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

2002
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Journal of Child Language
2002
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Object names and object functions serve as cues to categories for infants

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

2002
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Developmental Psychology
2002
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Word learning is smart: Evidence that conceptual information effects preschoolers' extension of novel words

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

2002
|
Cognition
2002
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Early word learning and conceptual development: Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought

Waxman, S.R.

2002
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Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
2002
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Word extension: A key to early word learning and domain-specificity

Waxman, S.R.

2001
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2001
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Seeing pink elephants: Fourteen-month-olds’ interpretations of novel nouns and adjectives

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

2001
|
Cognitive Psychology
2001
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (1-2 years)

On the insufficiency of domain-general account of word-learning: A reply to Bloom and Markson

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

2001
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Cognition
2001
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Naming and exclaiming: Infants’ sensitivity to naming contexts

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

2000
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Journal of Cognition and Development
2000
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Principles that are invoked in the acquisition of words, but not facts

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

2000
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Cognition
2000