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List of works by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

"Oh, the Places You'll Go" by Bringing Developmental Science Into the World!

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

A World of Relations

scholarly article published 1 February 2010

A developmental shift from similar to language-specific strategies in verb acquisition: a comparison of English, Spanish, and Japanese

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A goal bias in action: The boundaries adults perceive in events align with sites of actor intent

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

A long-term predictive validity study: Can the CDI Short Form be used to predict language and early literacy skills four years later?

scientific article published on July 31, 2012

Action speaks louder than words: young children differentially weight perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn verbs

scientific article published on July 2007

An image is worth a thousand words: why nouns tend to dominate verbs in early word learning

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Babies catch a break: 7- to 9-month-olds track statistical probabilities in continuous dynamic events

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

Can a microwave heat up coffee? How English- and Japanese-speaking children choose subjects in lexical causative sentences

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Carving Categories in a Continuous World: Preverbal Infants Discriminate Categorical Changes Before Distance Changes in Dynamic Events

Carving the world for language: how neuroscientific research can enrich the study of first and second language learning

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Categorization of dynamic realistic motion events: Infants form categories of path before manner

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Children with autism illuminate the role of social intention in word learning

scientific article published in July 2007

Contributions of executive function and spatial skills to preschool mathematics achievement

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Deconstructing building blocks: preschoolers' spatial assembly performance relates to early mathematical skills

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Does the Owl Fly out of the Tree or Does the Owl Exit the Tree Flying? How L2 Learners Overcome Their L1 Lexicalization Biases

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Embracing complexity: rethinking the relation between play and learning: comment on Lillard et al. (2013).

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Find Your Manners: How Do Infants Detect the Invariant Manner of Motion in Dynamic Events?

scientific article published on February 24, 2012

Focusing on the relation: fewer exemplars facilitate children's initial verb learning and extension

scientific article published on July 2008

Forces and Motion: How Young Children Understand Causal Events

scientific article published on January 11, 2013

How Reading Books Fosters Language Development around the World

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How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech?

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How toddlers begin to learn verbs

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

I. SPATIAL SKILLS, THEIR DEVELOPMENT, AND THEIR LINKS TO MATHEMATICS.

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II. METHODS FOR LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PRESCHOOL SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS.

scientific article published in March 2017

IV. NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB): measuring language (vocabulary comprehension and reading decoding)

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

IV. RESULTS-LINKS BETWEEN SPATIAL ASSEMBLY, LATER SPATIAL SKILLS, AND CONCURRENT AND LATER MATHEMATICAL SKILLS.

scientific article published in March 2017

Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children

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Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization predict later motion verb comprehension

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Infant Categorization of Path Relations During Dynamic Events

scientific article published on August 31, 2012

Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events

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Infants segment continuous events using transitional probabilities

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Influences of vowel and tone variation on emergent word knowledge: a cross-linguistic investigation

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

King Solomon's take on word learning: an integrative account from the radical middle

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Language Development in the First Year of Life: What Deaf Children Might Be Missing Before Cochlear Implantation

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Learning on hold: Cell phones sidetrack parent-child interactions

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Live action: can young children learn verbs from video?

scientific article published on September 2009

Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Modeling the contribution of phonotactic cues to the problem of word segmentation

scientific article published on 22 March 2010

Mommy and me: familiar names help launch babies into speech-stream segmentation

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New Insights Into Old Puzzles From Infants' Categorical Discrimination of Soundless Phonetic Units

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Novel Word Learning in Bilingual and Monolingual Infants: Evidence for a Bilingual Advantage

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese-, English-, and Japanese-speaking children

scientific article published in July 2008

Parents' and Experts' Awareness of Learning Opportunities in Children's Museum Exhibits

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Perceptual Narrowing of Linguistic Sign Occurs in the 1st Year of Life

scientific article published on January 25, 2012

Playing With Ideas: Evaluating the Impact of the Ultimate Block Party, a Collective Experiential Intervention to Enrich Perceptions of Play

scientific article published on 14 July 2017

Prelinguistic foundations of verb learning: Infants discriminate and categorize dynamic human actions

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Preverbal Infants' Attention to Manner and Path: Foundations for Learning Relational Terms

scientific article published on 07 January 2013

Putting education in "educational" apps: lessons from the science of learning

scientific article published on May 2015

Shape up: An eye-tracking study of preschoolers' shape name processing and spatial development

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Six principles of language development: implications for second language learners

scientific article published in January 2014

Skype me! Socially contingent interactions help toddlers learn language

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Taking Shape: Supporting Preschoolers' Acquisition of Geometric Knowledge Through Guided Play

scientific article published on March 27, 2013

The Contribution of Early Communication Quality to Low-Income Children's Language Success

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

The Shape of Things: The Origin of Young Children's Knowledge of the Names and Properties of Geometric Forms

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

The Theoretical and Methodological Opportunities Afforded by Guided Play With Young Children

The birth of words: ten-month-olds learn words through perceptual salience

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The perception of handshapes in American sign language

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Trading Spaces: Carving Up Events for Learning Language

scientific article published on January 2010

Twenty-Five Years Using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to Study Language Acquisition: What Have We Learned?

scientific article published on May 2013

V. RESULTS-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE FACTORS IN SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS.

scientific article published in March 2017

VI. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: HOW EARLY SPATIAL SKILLS PREDICT LATER SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS.

scientific article published in March 2017

Vacuuming with my mouth?: Children's ability to comprehend novel extensions of familiar verbs

scientific article published on April 2009

Where music meets space: Children's sensitivity to pitch intervals is related to their mental spatial transformation skills.

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Who is crossing where? Infants' discrimination of figures and grounds in events

scientific article published on August 12, 2011

Word Learning in Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Young children associate novel words with complex objects rather than salient parts

scientific article published on September 2007

Young children can extend motion verbs to point-light displays

scientific article published in July 2002