Refereed Publications

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Body region correlates of concrete and abstract verbs in early child language, Cognition, Brain, Behavior (2011)

Literature on verb acquisition has mainly focused on lightness and concreteness for verb acquisition whereas...

 
Object Associations of Early-Learned "Light" and "Heavy" English Verbs (with Aarre Laakso and Linda B. Smith), First Language (2011)

Many of the verbs that young children learn early have been characterized as ‘light.’ However,...

 
The Associative Structure of Language: Contextual Diversity in Early Word Learning (with Thomas T. Hills, Brian Riordan, and Linda B. Smith), Journal of Memory and Language (2010)
 
Auditory Verb Perception Recruits Motor Systems in the Developing Brain: An fMRI Investigation (with Karin Harman James), Developmental Science (2009)

This study investigated neural activation patterns during verb processing in children, using fMRI (functional Magnetic...

 
Categorical Structure Among Shared Features in Networks of Early-Learned Nouns (with Thomas T. Hills, Mounir Maouene, Adam Sheya, and Linda B. Smith), Cognition (2009)

The shared features that characterize the noun categories that young children learn first are a...

 

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Early semantic Networks: Preferential Attachment or Preferential Acquisition?, Psychological Science (2009)

Analyses of adult semantic networks suggest a learning mechanism involving preferential attachment: A word is...

 
Body Parts and Early-Learned Verbs (with Shohei Hidaka and Linda B. Smith), Cognitive Science (2008)

This article reports the structure of associations among 101 common verbs and body parts. The...

 

Refereed Published Conference Proceedings

Correlating Body Experiences, Knowledge of Verbs, and the Development of Argument Structure (with Nitya Sethuraman, Karin Harman James, Mounir Maouene, and Linda Smith), 2010 CSDL / ESLP Joint Meeting (2010)
 
Distribution of Object Types of ‘Light’ and ‘Heavy’ Early-Learned English Verbs (with Aarre Laakso and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2010) (2010)
 
An Embodied Account of Argument Structure Development (with N. Sethuraman, Mounir Maouene, and Linda B. Smith), Linguistics Society (BLS) 36 Conference (2010)
 
Contextual Diversity and the Associative Structure of Adult Language in Early Word Learning (with Thomas Hills, Brian Riordan, and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2009)
 
Longitudinal Analysis of Early Semantic Networks Preferential Attachment or Preferential Acquisition? (with Thomas Hills, Mounir Maouene, Adam Sheya, and Linda B. Smith), Psychological Science (2009)

Analyses of adult semantic networks suggest a learning mechanism involving preferential attachment: A word is...

 
Alternative Models of Network Growth: Preferential Attachment, Preferential Acquisition, and the Lure of the Associates in Early Word Learning (with Thomas Hills, Mounir Maouene, Adam Sheya, and Linda B. Smith), Paper presented at the 1st ICC International Conference on Network Modeling and Economic systems. ISEG (2008)
 
Is there Preferential Attachment in the Growth of Early Semantic Nouns Networks? (with Thomas Hills, Mounir Maouene, and Adam Sheya), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2008)
 

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Categorical Structure in Early Semantic Networks of Nouns, The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2008)

Despite what we know about children’s ability to categorize, it is not clear to what...

 
Body Parts and Early-Learned Verbs in Japanese and English (with Shohei Hidaka, Mounir Maouene, and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the general session, at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (2007)
 
Body Parts and the First 100 Verbs (with Shohei Hidaka and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Talk Session 7-29-3 on Development (2006)
 
Body Parts and Early Acquired Verbs : Evidence From Children and Adults (with Shohei Hidaka and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Development and Learning, Talks Session II on The Dynamic Field Approach to Embodied Cognition : Integrating Insights from Babies, Brains and Bots (2006)
 

Posters Presented with Proceedings

Developing Early Semantic Networks And The Associative Structure Of Child Directed Speech (with Thomas Hills, Brian Riordan, and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society (2009)
 
Body-Part Categories of Early-Learned Verbs: Different Granularities at Different Points in Development (with Shohei Hidaka and Linda B. Smith), Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (2008)
 
Developmental Trajectory of the Granularity of Early-Learned Verbs Clustered by Body Parts (with Shohei Hidaka and Linda Smith), Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (2008)
 

Conferences and Symposiums

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Basic Emotions and Early-learned Verbs (with Megumi Kuwabara, Daniel Freer, and Linda B. Smith), Society for Research in Child Development (2011)

The purpose of this study is to describe the relationships between 102 early-learned verbs and...

 

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On the Bi-directionality of Verb Learning, Society for Research in Child Development (2011)
 

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An Embodied Account of Argument Structure Development (with Nitya Sethuraman, Mounir Maouene, and Linda B. Smith), Berkeley Linguistics Society (2010)
 
Correlations Between Body Parts and Types of Argument Structure (with Nitya Sethuraman, Mounir Maouene, and Linda Smith), Society for Research in Child Development, 2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting (2009)
 
Homologies between Relational Language and Bodily Action: First Steps into an Embodiment Account of Meaning (with Asifa Majid, Daniel Casasanto, and Karin Harman James), Society for Research in Child Development, SRCD Biennial Meeting (2009)
 
Neural Correlates of Verb Processing in the Developing Brain (with Karin Harman James), Society for Research in Child Development, 2009 SRCD Biennial Meeting (2009)
 
The Body, the Hands and Early Verbs (with Linda B. Smith), Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (2007)
 
The Body and Children's Word Learning (with Linda B. Smith and S. Hidaka), Emerging Landscapes of Mind: Mapping the Nature of Change in Spatial Cognitive Development (2007)
 

Posters without Proceedings

How Toddlers Map Common Transitive English Verbs to Pictured Events: An Early Dependency on Common Object (with Linda B. Smith), Poster accepted at the XXVIth International Conference on Infant Studies (2010)
 
Preferential Acquisition not Attachment in the Development of Children’s Semantic Networks (with Thomas Hills, Mounir Maouene, Adam Sheya, and Linda B. Smith), Talk presented at the 5th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis, ASNA 2008 (2008)
 
Set Operators for Superordinate Category Machine Learning (with Mounir Maouene and Linda B. Smith), Poster member accepted at the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2006)
 
How do Children Build the Meaning of Verbs? Grounding Verb Meanings in Body Parts, Objects and Contact, Poster presented at the 2005 Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child development, Session of Processes in Lexical Learning, Use, and Comprehension (2005)