Publications

2008
Barner D, Wagner L, Snedeker J. Events and the ontology of individuals: Verbs as a source of individuating nouns. Cognition [Internet]. 2008;106(2):805-832. Website
Snedeker J. Give and Take: Syntactic Priming during Spoken Language Comprehension. Cognition [Internet]. 2008;108:51-68. Website
Thothathiri M, Snedeker J. Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year old children. Journal of Memory and Language [Internet]. 2008;58(2):188-213. Website
Snedeker J, Thothathiri M. What Lurks Beneath: Syntactic Priming During Language Comprehension in Preschoolers (and Adults). In: Sekerina I, Fernández E, Clahsen H Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-Line Methods in Children's Language Processing. Amsterdam: Benjamins; 2008. Website
Snedeker J. Word Learning. In: Squire LR Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2008. p. 503-508. Website
2007
Snedeker J, Geren J, Shafto C. Starting over: International adoption as a natural experiment in language development. Psychological Science [Internet]. 2007;18(1):79-87. Website
2006
Havasi C, Snedeker J. The Adaptability of Language-Specific Verb Lexicalization Biases. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [Internet]. 2006. Website
Barner D, Snedeker J. Children's Early Understanding of Mass-Count Syntax: Individuation, Lexical Content, and the Number Asymmetry Hypothesis. Language Learning and Development [Internet]. 2006;2(3):163-194. Website
Barner D, Snedeker J. Children's Early Understanding of Mass-Count Syntax: Individuation, Lexical Content, and the Number Asymmetry Hypothesis. Language Learning and Development [Internet]. 2006;2(3):163-194. Website
2005
Barner D, Snedeker J. Quantity judgments and individuation: Evidence that mass nouns count. Cognition [Internet]. 2005;97:41-66. Website
Niyogi S, Snedeker J. Solutions to Fodor's Problem of Concept Acquisition. Twenty-seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [Internet]. 2005. Website
Geren J, Snedeker J, Ax L. Starting over: A preliminary study of early lexical and syntactic development in internationally adopted preschoolers. Seminars in Speech and Language [Internet]. 2005;26(1):44-53. Website
2004
Snedeker J, Trueswell J. The developing constraints on parsing decisions: The role of lexical-biases and referential scenes in child and adult sentence processing. Cognitive Psychology [Internet]. 2004;49(3):238-299. Website
Snedeker J, Gleitman L. Why it is hard to label our concepts. In: Hall, Waxman Weaving a Lexicon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2004. Website
2003
Snedeker J, Li P, Yuan S. Cross-Cultural Differences in the Input to Early Word Learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [Internet]. 2003. Website
Snedeker J, Trueswell J. Using Prosody to Avoid Ambiguity: Effects of Speaker Awareness and Referential Context. Journal of Memory and Language [Internet]. 2003;48:103-130. Website
2002
Nakassis C, Snedeker C. Beyond sarcasm: Intonation and Context as Relational Cues in Children's Recognition of Irony. In: Greenhill A, Hughs M, Littlefield H, Walsh H Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press; 2002. Website
2000
Snedeker J, Li P. Can the situations in which words occur account for cross-linguistic variation in vocabulary composition?. In: Tai J, Chang Y Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. ; 2000. Website
Snedeker J. Cross-situational observation and the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis. In: Clark E Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information; 2000. Website

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