Sandra R. Waxman

Research interests

Publications

• A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

  Infancy · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12182

• What the [beep]? Six-month-olds link novel communicative signals to meaning

  Cognition · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.020

• Are Nouns Learned Before Verbs? Infants Provide Insight Into a Long-Standing Debate

  Child Development Perspectives · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12032

• Nonhuman primate vocalizations support categorization in very young human infants

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1221166110

• Categorization in 3- and 4-Month-Old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones

  Child Development · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01408.x

• What Paradox? Referential Cues Allow for Infant Use of Phonetic Detail in Word Learning

  Child Development · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01479.x

• A Horse of a Different Color: Specifying With Precision Infants’ Mappings of Novel Nouns and Adjectives

  Child Development · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01242.x

• Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds

  Cognition · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.015

• Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2009.03.006

• Folkbiological reasoning from a cross-cultural developmental perspective: Early essentialist notions are shaped by cultural beliefs.

  Developmental Psychology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.43.2.294

• Words (but not Tones) facilitate object categorization: Evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds

  Cognition · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.005

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

  Cognition · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.003

• Weaving a Lexicon

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2004

• What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned: experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months

  Cognition · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00116-1

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

  Developmental Psychology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.38.6.948

• Seeing Pink Elephants: Fourteen-Month-Olds' Interpretations of Novel Nouns and Adjectives

  Cognitive Psychology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0764

• The role of comparison in the extension of novel adjectives.

  Developmental Psychology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.36.5.571

• Words and Gestures: Infants' Interpretations of Different Forms of Symbolic Reference

  Child Development · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06189.x

• Do Words Facilitate Object Categorization in 9-Month-Old Infants?

  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1006/jecp.1996.2332

• Words as Invitations to Form Categories: Evidence from 12- to 13-Month-Old Infants

  Cognitive Psychology · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1995.1016

• Linguistic biases and the establishment of conceptual hierarchies: Evidence from preschool children

  Cognitive Development · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0885-2014(90)90023-m

• Nouns Mark Category Relations: Toddlers' and Preschoolers' Word-Learning Biases

  Child Development · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02875.x

• Preschoolers' use of superordinate relations in classification and language

  Cognitive Development · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0885-2014(86)80016-8

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