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2010 Newsletter

Publications:

PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATIONS

Herold, D.S., Nygaard, L.C., Chicos, K., & Namy, L.L. (in press) The developing role of prosody in novel word comprehension. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Namy, L. L., & Clepper, L. (2010). The Differing Roles of Comparison and Contrast in Categorization. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 291-305.

Graham, S. A., Namy, L. L., Genter, D., & Meager, K. (2010). The Role of Comparison in Preschoolers' Novel Object Categorization. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 280-290

Nygaard, L. C., Cook, A. E., & Namy, L. L. (2009). Sound to Meaning Correspondences Facilitate Word Learning. Cognition, 112, 181-186.

Nygaard, L. C., Herold, D. S., & Namy, L.L. (2009).The Semantics of prosody: Listeners’ use of acoustic correlates to word meaning. Cognitive Science, 33, 127-146. 

Namy, L. L., Vallas, R., & Knight-Schwarz, J. (2008). Linking Parent Input and Child Receptivity to Symbolic Gestures. Gesture, 8, 302-324.

Namy, L. L. (2008). Recognition of Iconicity Doesn’t Come for Free.  Developmental Science, 11, 841-846.

Namy, L. L., Gentner, D., & Clepper, L. (2007). How close is too close?  Alignment and perceptual similarity in children’s categorization.  Invited submission, Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, 11, 647-659.

Sheehan, E., Namy, L. L., & Mills, D. L. (2007).  Developmental changes in neural activity to familiar words and gestures. Brain and Language, 101, 246-259.

Gentner, D. & Namy, L.L. (2006).  Analogical processes in language learning.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 297-301.

Namy, L.L., Campbell, A.L., & Tomasello, M. (2004). The changing role of iconicity in non-verbal symbol learning: A U-shaped trajectory in the acquisition of arbitrary gestures. Special Issue of Journal of Cognition and Development,  5, 37-57.

Namy, L. L. & Nolan, S. A. (2004). Characterising changes in parent labelling and gesturing and their relation to early communicative development. Journal of Child Language. 31, 821-835.

EDITED VOLUMES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND PROCEEDINGS

Gentner, D. & Namy, L.L. (2004). The role of comparison in children’s early word learning.  In Hall, D. G. & Waxman, S. R. (Eds.)  Weaving a lexicon, 533-568,  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Namy, L.L., Editor (2005). Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives.  Mahwah,  NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Namy, L.L. & Waxman, S.R. (2005).  Symbols Redefined.  In Namy, L.L. (Ed.) Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation, 269-277.  Mahwah,  NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Nygaard, L. C., Cook, A. E., & Namy, L. L. (2008).  Sound Symbolism in Word Learning.  To appear in The Proceedings of the 30th Annual Cognitive Science Society.

Namy, L. L. (2009). Early word learning and other seemingly symbolic behaviors. In Woodward, A., & Needham, A. (Eds).  Learning and the infant mind. (pp. 249-262). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

BOOK REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES

Namy, L. L., & Newcombe, N. S. (2008). More Than Just Hand Waving: Review of “Hearing Gestures: How Our Hands Help Us Think.”  Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 247-252.

Namy, L. L., & Nygaard, L. C. (2008).  Perceptual-motor constraints on sound to meaning correspondence in language.  Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 528-529.

TEXTBOOKS

Lilienfeld, S., Lynn, S., Namy, L. L., & Woolf, N. (2008). Psychology, From Inquiry to Understanding.  Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

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