Sandra R. Waxman

Publications

• Maturation Constrains the Effect of Exposure in Linking Language and Thought: Evidence from Healthy Preterm Infants
  Developmental Science. Dec, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 28032433
• Naming Influences 9-month-olds' Identification of Discrete Categories Along a Perceptual Continuum
  Cognition. Nov, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 27501225
• Young Children Learning from Touch Screens: Taking a Wider View
  Frontiers in Psychology. 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 27486421
• 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
• 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
• What the [beep]? Six-month-olds Link Novel Communicative Signals to Meaning
  Cognition. Jan, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 26433024
• 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
• Let's See a Boy and a Balloon: Argument Labels and Syntactic Frame in Verb Learning
  Language Acquisition. Apr, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25983528
• Very Young Infants' Responses to Human and Nonhuman Primate Vocalizations
  The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Dec, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25514943
• Listen Up! Speech is for Thinking During Infancy
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Dec, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25457376
• 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
• 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
• Infants Use Known Verbs to Learn Novel Nouns: Evidence from 15- and 19-month-olds
  Cognition. Apr, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24463934
• Doing More with Less: Verb Learning in Korean-Acquiring 24-Month-Olds
  Language Acquisition. 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 25320551
• 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
• 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
• Teleological Reasoning About Nature: Intentional Design or Relational Perspectives?
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Apr, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23518159
• "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
• 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
• 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
• Language and Conceptual Development
  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. Jul, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 26271502
• What Paradox? Referential Cues Allow for Infant Use of Phonetic Detail in Word Learning
  Child Development. Sep-Oct, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20840228
• 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
• Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old Infants: an Advantage of Words over Tones
  Child Development. Mar-Apr, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20438453
• Meaning from Syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds
  Cognition. Mar, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 19945696
• 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
• Learning from Infants' First Verbs
  Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19660069
• Response to Sloutsky: Taking Development Seriously: Theories Cannot Emerge from Associations Alone
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Aug, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19646914
• Early Word-learning Entails Reference, Not Merely Associations
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Jun, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19447670
• Twenty Four-month-old Infants' Interpretations of Novel Verbs and Nouns in Dynamic Scenes
  Cognitive Psychology. Aug, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19303591
• A Horse of a Different Color: Specifying with Precision Infants' Mappings of Novel Nouns and Adjectives
  Child Development. Jan-Feb, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19236389
• 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
• The Role of Representational Status and Item Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations About Pictures and Objects
  Cognitive Development. 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 19122853
• 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
• Naming Practices and the Acquisition of Key Biological Concepts: Evidence from English and Indonesian
  Psychological Science. Apr, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18399881
• Taking Stock As Theories of Word Learning Take Shape
  Developmental Science. Mar, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18333973
• Looking Beyond Looks: Comments on Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher (2007)
  Psychological Science. Jun, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17576270
• 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
• Mother-child Conversations About Pictures and Objects: Referring to Categories and Individuals
  Child Development. Nov-Dec, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16274430
• Conceptual Information Permeates Word Learning in Infancy
  Developmental Psychology. May, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15910157
• Consistent (but Not Variable) Names As Invitations to Form Object Categories: New Evidence from 12-month-old Infants
  Cognition. Apr, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15788158
• Preschoolers' Use of Form Class Cues to Learn Descriptive Proper Names
  Child Development. Sep-Oct, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 14552413
• Bringing Theories of Word Learning in Line with the Evidence
  Cognition. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12684201
• 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
• Word Learning is 'smart': Evidence That Conceptual Information Affects Preschoolers' Extension of Novel Words
  Cognition. May, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 12062150