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

The role of comparison in the extension of novel adjectives

Waxman, S.R. & Klibanoff, R.S.

2000
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Developmental Psychology
2000
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Basic level object categories support the acquisition of novel adjectives: Evidence from preschool-aged children

Klibanoff, R.S. & Waxman, S.R.

2000
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Child Development
2000
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Distinguishing count nouns from adjectives: Evidence from 14-month-olds’ word extension

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

2000
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Proceedings of the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development
2000
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Specifying the scope of 13-month-olds’ expectations for novel words

Waxman, S.R.

1999
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Cognition
1999
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

A matter of time: Novel nouns mark object categories when delays are imposed

Waxman, S.R., Philippe, M. & Branning, A.

1999
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Developmental Science
1999
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Object properties and object kind: Twenty-one-month-old infants' extension of novel adjectives

Waxman, S.R. & Markow, D.B.

1998
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Child Development
1998
Cognitive Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy

Conceptual organization

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

1998
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A Companion to Cognitive Science
1998
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Linking object categorization and naming: Early expectations and the shaping role of language

Waxman, S.R.

1998
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation
1998
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Object naming at multiple hierarchical levels: A comparison of preschoolers with and without word-finding deficits

McGregor, K.K. & Waxman, S.R.

1998
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Journal of Child Language
1998
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)

Words and gestures: Infants’ interpretations of different forms of symbolic reference

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

1998
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Child Development
1998
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Words and gestures: The role of sentence context in infants' mapping of novel symbols to object categories

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

1998
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Proceedings of the 22nd Boston University Conference on Language Development
1998
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Preschoolers’ acquisition of novel adjectives and the role of basic-level kind

Klibanoff, R.S. & Waxman, S.R.

1998
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Proceedings of the 22nd Boston University Conference on Language Development
1998
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Op Ed / Opinions / Policy
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Words are invitations to learn about categories

Waxman, S.R. & Thompson, W.

1998
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
1998
Cognitive Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Setters and samoyeds: The emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children

Waxman, S.R., Lynch, E.B., Casey, K.L. & Baer, L.

1997
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Developmental Psychology
1997
Cognitive Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Challenging the notion of a thematic preference in young children

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

1997
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Developmental Psychology
1997
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)

A cross-linguistic examination of the noun-category bias: Its existence and specificity in French- and Spanish-speaking preschool-aged children

Waxman, S.R., Senghas, A. & Benveniste, S.

1997
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Cognitive Psychology
1997
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Do words facilitate object categorization in 9-month-old infants?

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

1997
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
1997
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

Ursines and felines: Novel words support object categorization in 9 month old infants

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

1996
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Infant Behavior and Development
1996
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

The composition of children’s early lexicons as a function of age and vocabulary size

Saah, M.I., Waxman, S.R. & Johnson, J.S.

1996
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Infant Behavior and Development
1996
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Stars and starfish: How far can shape take us?

Waxman, S.R. & Braig, B.

1996
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Infant Behavior and Development
1996
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)

An examination of the factors underlying the facilitative effect of word phrases on object categorization in 9-month-old infants

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

1996
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Proceedings of the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development
1996
Language Development
Preschooler (2-4 years)
Children (4-7 years)

Multiple level naming abilities of children with word-finding deficits

McGregor, K. & Waxman, S.R.

1996
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Proceedings of the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development
1996
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Infant (1-2 years)

Words as invitations to form categories: Evidence from 12- to 13-month-old infants

Waxman, S.R. & Markow, D.B.

1995
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Cognitive Psychology
1995
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (0-1 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

Characteristics of word learners at 12- and 30-months: Early emergence and modification of the noun-category linkage

Waxman, S.R.

1995
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Proceedings of the 19th Boston University Conference on Language Development
1995
Cognitive Development
Language Development
Infant (1-2 years)
Preschooler (2-4 years)

The development of an appreciation of specific linkages between linguistic and conceptual organization

Waxman, S.R.

1994
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The Acquisition of the Lexicon
1994