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Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education

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Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2001). Individuation, relativity and early word learning. In M. Bowerman & S. Levinson (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual development (pp. 215-256). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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

Shao, R., & Gentner, D. (2022). Perceptual alignment contributes to referential transparency in indirect learning. Cognition 224.

Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2009). Early acquisition of nouns and verbs: Evidence from Navajo. In V. Gathercole (Ed.) Routes to Language: Studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman, 5-36. Taylor & Francis, New York, NY.

Imai, M., Gentner, D., & Uchida, N. (1994). Children's theories of word meaning: The role of shape similarity in early acquisition. Cognitive Development, 9, 45-75.

Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2009). Early acquisition of nouns and verbs: Evidence from Navajo. In V. Gathercole (Ed.) Routes to Language: Studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman, 5-36. Taylor & Francis, New York, NY.

Gentner, D., & Bowerman, M. (2009). Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The Typological Prevalence hypothesis. In J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, S. Özçaliskan, & K. Nakamura (eds.). Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language:

Imai, M., & Gentner, D. (1997). A crosslinguistic study of early word meaning: Universal ontology and linguistic influence. Cognition, 62, 169-200.