Robert Golinkoff, Ph. DUDEL

Paper Presentations

Prior to 1987, 26 papers presented at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, American Educational Research Association, Jean Piaget Society, International Conference on Infant Studies, and other meetings.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1987, April). The natural order of things: Word order comprehension in infancy. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Cauley, K. (1987, April). The verb's the thing, therein to catch the origins of grammar. Society for Research in Child Development.

Naigles, L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Gleitman, L., & Gleitman, H. (1987, October). From linguistic form to meaning: Evidence for syntactic bootstrapping by two-year-olds. Boston Child Language Conference.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1988, April). Infants' comprehension of word combinations: Paving the road for the acquisition of grammar. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1988, August). Language comprehension reveals a new picture of language development. International Congress of Psychology.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Naigles, L., Golinkoff, R. M., Gleitman, L. R., & Gleitman, H. (1988, October). Syntactic bootstrapping: Evidence from comprehension. Boston Child Language Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., Bailey, L., Wenger, N., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1989, April). Conceptualizing constraints: Why and how many? Society for Research in Child Development. Presented in a symposium entitled, "The Case for 'Constraints' on Lexical Acquisition," organized by R. M. Golinkoff.

Naigles, L., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1989, October). Comprehension of the passive voice by two-year-olds. Boston Child Language Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1990, April). The comprehension-production debate in language acquisition: Where does it stand? International Conference on Infant Studies.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1990, October). The preferential looking paradigm: Language comprehension revealed. Boston Child Language Conference.

Mervis, C. B., Golinkoff, R. M., & Bertrand, J. (1991, April). Young children learn synonyms: A refutation of the principle of mutual exclusivity. Society for Research in Child Development.

Jacquet, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Olguin, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1991, April). Principles proposed for noun acquisition can be extended to verbs. Society for Research in Child Development.

Sevcik, R. A., Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M. (1991, April). Overextensions in a pygmy chimpanzee are referential and not associative in nature. Society for Research in Child Development.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Olguin, R. (1991, May). How children extend the meaning of words: A bias toward taxonomic organization? Jean Piaget Society.

Golinkoff, R. M., Mennuti, T., Lengle, C., & Hermon, G. (1992, May). Is "glorpy" a noun or an adjective?: Identifying the part of speech of a novel word. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Golinkoff, R. M., Diznoff, J., Yasik, A., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1992, May). How children identify nouns versus verbs. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Shuff-Bailey, M., Golinkoff, R. M., & Ruan, W. (1992, April). Word extensions: A bias toward taxonomic or away from thematic organization"? Conference on Human Development.

Shah, P., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1992, August). The role of functional knowledge in young children's categorizations. American Psychological Association.

Burger-Judisch, L., Gill, L., Molfese, D., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1992, April). Evoked responses discriminate nouns from verbs during a visual-auditory matching task. Midwestern Psychological Association.

Golinkoff, R. M., Alioto, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Kaufman, D. (1992, October). Infants learn lexical items better in infant-directed than in adult-directed speech. Boston Child Language Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., Alioto, A., & McGrath, E. (1993, March). Infant-directed speech facilitates lexical acquisition in adults learning Chinese: Implications for the language learning infant. Society for Research in Child Development.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1993, March). Early object labels: The case for a developmental lexical principles framework. Society for Research in Child Development.

Kenealy, L., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1993, March). The principle of object scope: Labels promote attention to whole objects. Society for Research in Child Development.

Golinkoff, R. M., Blewitt, P., & Alioto, A. (1994, March). When a hammer is not a tool: Toddlers' basic level label preference. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Human Development.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hermon, G., & Kaufman, D. (1994, April). Evidence from comprehension for the early knowledge of Principle B. Stanford Child Language Research Forum.

Golinkoff, R. M., Parillo, M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1994, November). Novel verb comprehension: Immediate extension to new agents. Boston Child Language Conference.

Shuff-Bailey, M. M., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1995, April). Lexical extension in young children: Perceptual similarity vs. object kind. Society for Research in Child Development.

Deemer, S., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1995, April). The role of gazing and pointing in infants' understanding of referential intent. Society for Research in Child Development.

Heberle, J. F., Kaufman, D., Grego, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1995, April). Context effects on linguistic input and development of children's language. Society for Research in Child Development.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1995, August). Let the mute speak: What infants can tell us about language acquisition. American Psychological Association meeting.

Golinkoff, R. M., Alioto, A., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1995, November). Infants' word learning is facilitated when novel words are presented in infant-directed speech in sentence-final position. Boston Child Language Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Reeves, L., Shuff-Bailey, M. (1996, April). Changes in the oung child's construal of the meaning of object words. International Conference on Infant Studies. Presented in a symposium entitled, "When Does 'Apple' Mean Apple?: How Do Young Children Interpret Words?” organized by R. M. Golinkoff, S. Gelman, & K. Hirsh-Pasek.

Rehill, J. L., Heberle, J. F., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1996, April). Don't throw out directives!: Reinterpreting the relationship between language input and output. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Shuff-Bailey, M. M., Golinkoff, R. M., DeLorenzo, D., & Mihelsic, M. (1996, June). Lexical extension in young children: Perceptual similarity bootstraps taxonomic extension. Jean Piaget Society.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1996, July). Language and cognition: The role of acoustic 'packaging' in carving up the world's events. Seventh International Congress for the Study of Child Language.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Rehill, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1996, November). Bridging the gap between social-pragmatic and lexical constraints for word learning: Can the Capulets live with the Montagues? Presented in a symposium entitled, Reexamining the Role of Social Input in Early Word Learning: Where Social Theories Meet Constraints,” organized by K. Hirsh-Pasek and R. M. Golinkoff at Boston Child Language Conference.

Schweisguth, M. A., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1997, April). Dancelu?” Dancing?” Children are sensitive to verb morphology before they produce it. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Rehill, J. L., Wiley, J. G., & Brand, R. (1997, April). Mapping words to referents: Multiple cues for word learning. Presented ina symposium entitled, What’s a Word’s Worth: Multiple Paths to Word Learning,” organized by R. M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, & L. B. Cohen. Society for Research in Child Development.

Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Sak. K. (1997, November). One cow does not an animal make!: Children can extend novel words at the superordinate level. Boston Child Language Conference .

Hollich, G., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Brand, R., Hankey, C., Rocroi, C., Chung, H., & McKinney, M. (1998, April). Breaking the word barrier: How infants learn their first words. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hollich, G., Golinkoff, R. M., & Rocroi, C. (1998, May). Advancing the preferential looking paradigm: When less is more. American Psychological Society.

Golinkoff, R. M., Chung, H., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Rocroi, C., Hollich, G., McKinney, M., & Hennon, B. (1998, May). What’s new in word learning?: A new theory and a new method. American Psychological Society.

Hoskins, S., Golinkoff, R. M., Chung, H., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Rocroi, C. (1998, May). Thirty-two to thirty-five-month-olds can discriminate novel minimal pairs. American Psychological Society.

Golinkoff, R. M. (1999, April). Discussant of symposium entitled, Language and categorization: Which way does it go?, organized by A. Fulkerson. Society for Research in Child Development.

Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1999, April). An emergentist coalition model for word learning: It takes multiple cues. In a symposium entitled, Breaking the word learning barrier: What does it take?, organized by L. Smith and L. Bloom. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hollich, G., Rocroi, C. S., Allen, S. L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff. R. M. (1999, April). Testing language comprehension in infants: Introducing the split-screen preferential looking paradigm. Society for
Research in Child Development.

Hennon, E. A., Rocroi, C. S., Chung, H., Hollich, G., Driscoll, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M. (1999, April). Testing the principle of extendibility: Are new words learned as proper nouns or category labels? Society for Research in Child Development. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Piper, K., Panagos, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1999, May). Infant-directed speech facilitates noun learning in Chinese by English-speaking adults: A replication of Golinkoff and Alioto (1995). Northeast Conference on Cognitive Science.

Arnold, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Driscoll, K., Rocroi,C., & Hollich, G. (1999, November). The whole is greater than the sum of the parts: Investigating the object scope principle. Boston Child Language Conference.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hollich, G. (1999, November). The emergentist coalition model of word learning. In a symposium entitled, Attention to multiple interactive cues offers insights for language researchers OR why each blind man saw only part of the elephant, organized by K. Hirsh-Pasek and R. M. Golinkoff. Boston Child Language Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., Arnold, K., Schweisguth, M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2000, March). Sensitivity to grammatical morphemes precedes their production: The case of /ing/. Eastern Psychological Association Conference.

Chung, H., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Bertenthal, B. I., & Brand, R. (2000, March). Extending verb labels to point-light displays. Eastern Psychological Association Conference.

Golinkoff, R. M., Hennon, E. A., Maguire, M. J., Slutzy, C., Carpenter, Q. A., & Baker, S. (2000, April). Reconciling competing theories of word learning: Developmental changes from 10 to 24-months. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hennon, E. A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Rocroi, C. S., Arnold, K., Maguire, M. J., Baker, S., & Driscoll, K. (2000, July). From proper nouns to categories: Infants learn how words work. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M. & Hollich, G. (2000, July). Language development at the radical middle: The emergentist coalition model of word learning. In a symposium entitled, Standing at the radical middle: Interactionism in infant development in the linguistic, spatial, and quantitative domains, organized by N. Newcombe and K. Hirsh-Pasek. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Hoskins, S., Golinkoff, R. M., & Arnold, K. (2000, August). Discrimination of novel minimal pairs by 31 to 35-months old. American Psychological Association.

Liu, E. J., Golinkoff, R. M., Piper, K., Chung, H., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Ramey, C. H., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2000, August). Point-light displays illuminate the abstract nature of children’s motion verb representations. Cognitive Science Society.

Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Goroff, J. H., & Carpenter, Q. A. (2000,November). Two toys say more than two pictures: Young children's novel word extension at the superordinate level. Boston Child Language Conference.

Hennon, E. A., Maguire, M. J., Slutzky, C.B., Sootsman, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2001, April) Reconciling competing theories of word learning: Developmental changes from 10 to 24 months. Society for Research in Child Development.

Maguire, M. J., Hennon, B., Slutzky, C., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2001, April). Infants' development of lexical categories: Moving from perceptual to social cues. Society for Research in Child Development.

Speares, J., Sootsman, J., Piper, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hollich, G., Chung, H., & Hennon, B. (2001, April). The stuff of object labels: Will any sound from the mouth suffice? Eastern Psychological Association Meetings.

Maguire, M., Hennon, E., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Slutzky, C., & Sootsman J. (2001, November). Mapping words to actions and events: How do 18-month-olds learn a verb? Boston Child Language.

Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Morgan, J., & Sootsman, J. (2002, April). Name recognition and speech segmentation. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Salkind, S., Sootsman, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Maguire, M. J. (2002, April). Lights, camera, action!: Infants and toddlers create action categories. International Conference on Infant Studies.

Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2002, April). Infants' non-linguistic processing of motion events: One-year-old English speakers are interested in manner and path. Stanford University Conference on Language Development.

Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Morgan, J., & Sootsman, J. (2002, June). Early name recognition helps initiate infant speech segmentation. American Psychological Society.

Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2002, November). The role of lexical knowledge in nonlinguistic event processing: English speaking infants' attention to manner and path. Boston Child Language Conference.

Rathbun, K., Bortfeld, H., Morgan, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2002, November). What's in a name: Using highly familiar items to aid segmentation. Boston Child Language Conference.

Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Morgan, J. (2002, November). Highly familiar items guide initial speech segmentation. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Kansas City, MO.

Baker, S., Sootsman, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Petitto, L. (2003, April). Hearing 4-month-olds’ perception of handshapes in American sign language: No experience required. Society for Research in Child Development.

Maguire, M., Meyer, M., Salkind, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, April). Keeping it simple: Mapping words onto actions. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hennon, E., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, April). Speaker intention?: Autistic children may learn words without it. Society for Research in Child Development.

Pruden, S., Pulverman, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, April). Pathways to verb learning: Preverbal infants form action categories. Society for Research in Child Development.

Rathbun, K., Bortfeld, H., Morgan, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, April). What’s in a frame: Using highly familiar items to aid segmentation. Society for Research in Child Development.

Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2003, April). Attention to manner and path in nonlinguistic event processing: English-speaking infants learn to mind their manners. In a symposium entitled, Infancy to adulthood: Exploring the effect of linguistic input on the discrimination of manner and path in motion events, organized by M. Casasola. Society for Research in Child Development.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Pruden, S. (2003, April). The way you do that thing you do: Attention to path and manner in action words. In a symposium entitled, How event cognition is linked to event language, organized by L. Wagner. Society for Research in Child Development.

Pence, K. L., Golinkoff, R. M., Pulverman, R., Sootsman, J. L., Addy, D., Salkind, S. J., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2003, June). The do-it-yourself-guide to verb learning: Infants utilize a coalition of cues. Poster session presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.

Addy, D., Golinkoff, R. M., Sootsman, J. L., Pence, K., Pulverman, R., Salkind, S., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2003, June). Understanding the /ing/: Sensitivity to grammatical morphemes precedes their production. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.

Meyer, M., Leondard, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Haryu, E., Pulverman, R., & Addy, D. (2003, October). Making a convincing argument: A crosslinguistic comparison of noun and verb learning in Japanese and English. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pence, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Winn, M. B. (2003, October). More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in parents’ sppech to infants. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pence, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Winn, M. B., Salkind, S. J., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2003, November). Emergence of parents’ conversational focus on verbs. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

Pulverman, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, November). Starting out on the right path: Seven-month-olds’ attention to potential verb peferents in nonlinguistic events. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pruden, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Maguire, M., Meyers, M., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003, November). Foundations of verb learning: Infants categorize path and manner in motion events. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Galinsky, E. (2004, April). Infant research and the public eye: Do we have a role in translating research for public consumption? Round table session at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2004, April). Cross-talk: Reconsidering domain specificity and domain generality in infant cognition. Round table session at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL.

Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Meyer, M., Adde, D., Maguire, M., & Pulverman.R. (2004, August). Understanding the paradox of verb learning. International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China. Presented in a symposium entitled, “Universal and language-specific factors influencing early verb learning,” organized by M. Imai.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Pruden, S., & Salkind, S. (2004, August). Foundations for verb learning: Infants detect and categorize “paths” and “manners.” International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China. Presented in a symposium entitled, “Universal and language-specific factors influencing early verb learning,” organized by M. Imai.

Haryu, E., Imai, M., Okada, H., Li, L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Meyer, M. (2004, November). Noun bias in Chinese children: Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese, Japanese and English preschoolers. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pulverman, R., Brandone, A., Salkind, S. J., Golinkoff, R. M. (2004, November). One-year-old English speakers increase their attention to manner of motion in a potential verb learning situation. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pulverman, R., Brandone, A., Salkind, S., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2005, April). The necessity for a recovery criterion in infant habituation experiments. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Maldonado, D. (2005, April). Linguistic relativity in one-year-olds? English and Spanish learning infants’ attention to manner and pather in silent events. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Pence, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Brandone, A. (2005, April). The do-it-yourself guide to verb learning: Toddlers utilize a coalition of cues. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Maquire, M., Mutsumi, I. (2005, April) Verb learning: What makes verb learning so difficult. Presented in a symposium entitled, “Is it really about nouns and verbs,” organized by K. Hirsh-Pasek, & R. M. Golinkoff. Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Salkind, S. J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Brandone, A. (2005, April) Infants’ attention to novel actions in relation to the conflation patterns of motion verbs. Presented in a symposium entitled, “Action packed for language: Prelinguistic foundations for learning relational terms,” organized by R. M. Golinkoff, & K. Hirsh-Pasek. Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.

Pence, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Winn, M. (2005, June). Investigating action verb input to young language learners: How mothers introduce conceptual and linguistically challenging words. Society for Research in Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.

Shipley, T. F., Pruden, S., Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2005, November). When action meets word: Event parsing, representation, and verb learning. Psychonomics Society. Toronto, Canada.

Brandone, A., Addy, D. A., Pulverman, R., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2005, November). One-for-one and Two-for-two: Anticipating parallel structure between events and language. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Jones, M. C., Parish, J., Brandone, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hansell, N., & Kogan, M. (2005, October). The roles of labels and syntax in early verb learning. Poster session alternate at the Cognitive Development Society Fourth Biennial Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Seston, R., Brandone, A., Moynihan, N., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Song, J.  (2006, March).  Active bodies, active minds:  Learning opportunities in children’s museums.  Eastern Psychological Association.  Baltimore, MD.

Brandone, A., Seston, R., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K.  (2006, March).  The story of ‘ing’:  Young children expect to hear ‘ing’ on verbs but not on nouns.  Eastern Psychological Association.  Baltimore, MD.

Wilson, M. S., Brandone, A., Golinkoff, R. M.,  & Hirsh-Pasek, K.  (2006, April).  Feasibility of computer administered language assessment.  Council for Exceptional Children.  Salt Lake City, UT.

Göksun, T., Jones, M. C., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roeper, T., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2006, April).  Sensitivity to ellipsis signals grammatical categories.  Conference on Human Development.  Louisville, KY.

Brandone, A., Deptula, T., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2006, June).  “Zorbs cloom”:  The influence of generic language on verb-learning.  Jean Piaget Society.  Baltimore, MD.

Pilette, J., Campbell, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Brandone, A., & Seston, R.  (2006,June).  This experiment is killing me!  Children’s comprehension of verb metaphor.  Jean Piaget Society.  Baltimore, MD.

Seston, R., Pilette, J., Campbell, J., Tomlinson, Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2006, June).  Vacuuming with my mouth?  Children’s ability to extend verbs.  Jean Piaget Society.  Baltimore, MD.

Ma, W., McDonough, C., Lannon, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Wardif, T.  (2006, June).  A mental image is worth a thousand verbs:  Imageability predicts verb learning.  Jean Piaget Society.  Baltimore, MD.

Infiesta, C., & Pulverman, R. (2006, June).  Does the owl fly out of the tree or leave the tree flying?:  The development and plasticity of lexicalization biases.  Jean Piaget Society.  Baltimore, MD.

Maguire, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2006, July).  Less is more in verb learning:  Fewer exemplars facilitate novel verb extension.  International Conference on Infant Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

Parish, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2006, July).  What does it take to learn a verb?:  A verb acquisition meta-analysis.  International Conference on Infant Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Brandone, A. C., & Seston, R.  (2006, July).  Linguistic input directs infants’ attention to facilitate word learning.  International Conference on Infant Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Maguire, M.  (2006, July).  On the beaten path:  Multiple cues converge to make verb learning easier in Spanish.  International Conference on Infant Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Brandone, A., & Seston, N. R.  (2006, July).  Linguistic input directs infants’ attention to facilitate word learning.  International Conference on Infant Studies.  Kyoto, Japan.

Song, L.,  Golinkoff, R. M., Seston, R.,  Ma, W., Shallcross, W., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2006, November). Action stations: Verb learning rests on constructing categories of action. Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

Collins, M., Parish-Morris, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2006, November). Electronic or traditional books: Boon or bust for interactive reading? Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

Deniz-Can, D., Ginsburg-Block, M., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007, March). Measuring family involvement in early literacy: Parental beliefs as predictors. Annual Convention of National Association of School Psychologists. New York, NY.

Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007, March). Getting into the action:
How children learn verbs from video displays.  Eastern Psychological Association. Philadelphia, PA.

Pruden, S. M., Jones, M., Seston, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M.  (2007, March).  Two views are better than one:  Event comparison helps infants abstract actions. Society for Research in Child Development.  Boston, MA.     

Sootsman Buresh, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Seston,R,. & Baker, S.A. (2007, March). Hearing babies' ability to categorize non-speech phonemes predicts later language development. Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.

Goksun, T., Jones, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roeper, T., Golinkoff, R. M., & Roseberry, S. (2007, March). Finding the missing piece: Ellipsis as a clue to grammatical development. Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.

Ma, W., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007, March). Why do Chinese children learn more verbs? Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.

Parish-Morris, J. B., Jones, M.C., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007, March).  Is syntactic bootstrapping about syntax or about hearing the accompanying nouns? Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Song, L., Golinkoff, R. M., Shipley, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Seston, R., & Ma, W. (2007, May). Path to verb learning: Infants are sensitive to geometric features of path. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Ma, W., Golinkoff, R., Seston, R., Balderson, E., Faulkner, K., Song, L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007, May). Path or manner? That is the question. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Ma, W., Golinkoff, R. M., Sun, W., Brandone, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Song, L. (2007, May). Carrying the load?: Chinese children’s knowledge of familiar verbs. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Wong, W., Tomlinson, N., Ma, W., Serra, A., Seston, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Song, L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007, May). Educational toys and media: Claims, parental purchasing behaviors and children's vocabulary. Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

 Brandone, A., Golinkoff, R. M., Wilson, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Fox, B. J. (2007, July). Computer administered language assessment for preschool children.  ASHA Schools Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2007, November). Mother versus expert beliefs: Disagreement in the nature and value of play.  Presented in symposium entitled, “Learning by doing: The role of exploratory play in cognitive development, organized by l. Z. Bonawitz & L. Shultz.  Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.

Song, L., Golinkoff, R. M., Bosse, S., & Ma, W. (2007, November). Telling adjectives from verbs: 3-year-olds use morphological cues to interpret novel words. Boston Child Language Conference, Boston, MA.