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Word learning is 'smart': evidence that conceptual information affects preschoolers' extension of novel words.
Cognition May, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12062150
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 Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12471979
Bringing theories of word learning in line with the evidence.
Cognition Apr, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12684201
Preschoolers' use of form class cues to learn descriptive proper names.
Child development Sep-Oct, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14552413
Consistent (but not variable) names as invitations to form object categories: new evidence from 12-month-old infants.
Cognition Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15788158
Conceptual information permeates word learning in infancy.
Developmental psychology May, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15910157
Mother-child conversations about pictures and objects: referring to categories and individuals.
Child development Nov-Dec, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16274430
Words (but not tones) facilitate object categorization: evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds.
Cognition Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17064677
Déjà Vu all over again: re-revisiting the conceptual status of early word learning: comment on Smith and Samuelson (2006).
Developmental psychology Nov, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17087566
Looking beyond looks: comments on Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher (2007).
Psychological science Jun, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17576270
Taking stock as theories of word learning take shape.
Developmental science Mar, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18333973
Naming practices and the acquisition of key biological concepts: evidence from English and Indonesian.
Psychological science Apr, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18399881
Tight and loose are not created equal: an asymmetry underlying the representation of fit in English- and Korean-speakers.
Cognition Dec, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19010464
The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations about Pictures and Objects.
Cognitive development , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19122853
A horse of a different color: specifying with precision infants' mappings of novel nouns and adjectives.
Child development Jan-Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19236389
Twenty four-month-old infants' interpretations of novel verbs and nouns in dynamic scenes.
Cognitive psychology Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19303591
Unmasking "Alive:" Children's Appreciation of a Concept Linking All Living Things.
Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19319203
Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations.
Trends in cognitive sciences Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19447670
Response to Sloutsky: taking development seriously: theories cannot emerge from associations alone.
Trends in cognitive sciences Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19646914
Learning from infants' first verbs.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19660069
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 Nov, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19698207
Meaning from syntax: evidence from 2-year-olds.
Cognition Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19945696
Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old infants: an advantage of words over tones.
Child development Mar-Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20438453
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 Jun, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20479241
What paradox? Referential cues allow for infant use of phonetic detail in word learning.
Child development Sep-Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20840228
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 Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21848736
When humans become animals: Development of the animal category in early childhood.
Cognition Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21944836
Grammatical form and semantic context in verb learning.
Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development Jul, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22096450
"Shall we blick?" Novel words highlight actors' underlying intentions for 14-month-old infants.
Developmental psychology Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 22822935
Social categories are shaped by social experience.
Trends in cognitive sciences Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23026021
Teleological reasoning about nature: intentional design or relational perspectives?
Trends in cognitive sciences Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23518159
Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24003164
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 Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24163490
Infants use known verbs to learn novel nouns: evidence from 15- and 19-month-olds.
Cognition Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24463934
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 , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24672493
Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds.
Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development Jul, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25143762
Doing More with Less: Verb Learning in Korean-Acquiring 24-Month-Olds.
Language acquisition , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 25320551
Listen up! Speech is for thinking during infancy.
Trends in cognitive sciences Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25457376
Very young infants' responses to human and nonhuman primate vocalizations.
The Behavioral and brain sciences Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25514943
Let's See a Boy and a Balloon: Argument Labels and Syntactic Frame in Verb Learning.
Language acquisition Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25983528
Language and conceptual development.
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 26271502
The precision of 12-month-old infants' link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months.
Frontiers in psychology , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26379614
What the [beep]? Six-month-olds link novel communicative signals to meaning.
Cognition Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26433024
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 , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26903905
Listening to the calls of the wild: The role of experience in linking language and cognition in young infants.
Cognition 08, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27209387
Young Children Learning from Touch Screens: Taking a Wider View.
Frontiers in psychology , 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27486421
Naming influences 9-month-olds' identification of discrete categories along a perceptual continuum.
Cognition Nov, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27501225
Maturation constrains the effect of exposure in linking language and thought: evidence from healthy preterm infants.
Developmental science Dec, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 28032433