Sandra R. Waxman

Psychology Department, Northwestern University

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JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 2	Year
Publication title	2017
Publication title	2019

Other Publications

Article	Year
Word learning is 'smart': evidence that conceptual information affects preschoolers' extension of novel words. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 12062150	2002
Patterns of spontaneous production of novel words and gestures within an experimental setting in children ages 1;6 and 2;2. Journal of child language\| PubMed ID: 12471979	2002
Bringing theories of word learning in line with the evidence. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 12684201	2003
Preschoolers' use of form class cues to learn descriptive proper names. Child development\| PubMed ID: 14552413	2003
Consistent (but not variable) names as invitations to form object categories: new evidence from 12-month-old infants. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 15788158	2005
Conceptual information permeates word learning in infancy. Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 15910157	2005
Mother-child conversations about pictures and objects: referring to categories and individuals. Child development\| PubMed ID: 16274430	2005
Words (but not tones) facilitate object categorization: evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 17064677	2007
Déjà Vu all over again: re-revisiting the conceptual status of early word learning: comment on Smith and Samuelson (2006). Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 17087566	2006
Looking beyond looks: comments on Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher (2007). Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 17576270	2007
Taking stock as theories of word learning take shape. Developmental science\| PubMed ID: 18333973	2008
Naming practices and the acquisition of key biological concepts: evidence from English and Indonesian. Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 18399881	2008
Tight and loose are not created equal: an asymmetry underlying the representation of fit in English- and Korean-speakers. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 19010464	2008
The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations about Pictures and Objects. Cognitive development\| PubMed ID: 19122853	2008
A horse of a different color: specifying with precision infants' mappings of novel nouns and adjectives. Child development\| PubMed ID: 19236389	2009
Twenty four-month-old infants' interpretations of novel verbs and nouns in dynamic scenes. Cognitive psychology\| PubMed ID: 19303591	2009
Unmasking "Alive:" Children's Appreciation of a Concept Linking All Living Things. Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society\| PubMed ID: 19319203	2008
Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 19447670	2009
Response to Sloutsky: taking development seriously: theories cannot emerge from associations alone. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 19646914	2009
Learning from infants' first verbs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development\| PubMed ID: 19660069	2009
What's in the input? Frequent frames in child-directed speech offer distributional cues to grammatical categories in Spanish and English. Journal of child language\| PubMed ID: 19698207	2010
Meaning from syntax: evidence from 2-year-olds. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 19945696	2010
Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old infants: an advantage of words over tones. Child development\| PubMed ID: 20438453	2010
Anthropocentrism is not the first step in children's reasoning about the natural world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 20479241	2010
What paradox? Referential cues allow for infant use of phonetic detail in word learning. Child development\| PubMed ID: 20840228	2010
What does it mean to 'live' and 'die'? A cross-linguistic analysis of parent-child conversations in English and Indonesian. The British journal of developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 21848736	2011
When humans become animals: Development of the animal category in early childhood. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 21944836	2012
Grammatical form and semantic context in verb learning. Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development\| PubMed ID: 22096450	2011
"Shall we blick?" Novel words highlight actors' underlying intentions for 14-month-old infants. Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 22822935	2013
Social categories are shaped by social experience. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 23026021	2012
Teleological reasoning about nature: intentional design or relational perspectives? Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 23518159	2013
Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 24003164	2013
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. Language and cognitive processes\| PubMed ID: 24163490	2013
Infants use known verbs to learn novel nouns: evidence from 15- and 19-month-olds. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 24463934	2014
Humans (really) are animals: picture-book reading influences 5-year-old urban children's construal of the relation between humans and non-human animals. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 24672493	2014
Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds. Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development\| PubMed ID: 25143762	2014
Doing More with Less: Verb Learning in Korean-Acquiring 24-Month-Olds. Language acquisition\| PubMed ID: 25320551	2013
Listen up! Speech is for thinking during infancy. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 25457376	2014
Very young infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations. The Behavioral and brain sciences\| PubMed ID: 25514943	2014
Let's See a Boy and a Balloon: Argument Labels and Syntactic Frame in Verb Learning. Language acquisition\| PubMed ID: 25983528	2015
Language and conceptual development. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science\| PubMed ID: 26271502	2010
The precision of 12-month-old infants' link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 26379614	2015
What the [beep]? Six-month-olds link novel communicative signals to meaning. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 26433024	2016
How Early is Infants' Attention to Objects and Actions Shaped by Culture? New Evidence from 24-Month-Olds Raised in the US and China. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 26903905	2016
Listening to the calls of the wild: The role of experience in linking language and cognition in young infants. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 27209387	2016
Young Children Learning from Touch Screens: Taking a Wider View. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 27486421	2016
Naming influences 9-month-olds' identification of discrete categories along a perceptual continuum. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 27501225	2016
Maturation constrains the effect of exposure in linking language and thought: evidence from healthy preterm infants. Developmental science\| PubMed ID: 28032433	2016