| Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. JB Childers, M Tomasello Developmental psychology 38 (6), 967, 2002 | 396 | 2002 |
| The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. JB Childers, M Tomasello Developmental psychology 37 (6), 739, 2001 | 312 | 2001 |
| The perception of rhythmic units in speech by infants and adults CH Echols, MJ Crowhurst, JB Childers Journal of memory and language 36 (2), 202-225, 1997 | 279 | 1997 |
| Korean-and English-speaking children use cross-situational information to learn novel predicate terms JB Childers, JH Paik Journal of child language 36 (1), 201-224, 2009 | 91 | 2009 |
| 12 Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies JB Childers, M Tomasello Action meets word: How children learn verbs, 311, 2006 | 83 | 2006 |
| Joint attention and word learning in Ngas-speaking toddlers in Nigeria JB Childers, J Vaughan, DA Burquest Journal of Child Language 34 (2), 199-225, 2007 | 64 | 2007 |
| Attention to multiple events helps two-and-a-half-year-olds extend new verbs JB Childers First language 31 (1), 3-22, 2011 | 60 | 2011 |
| Children extend both words and non‐verbal actions to novel exemplars JB Childers, M Tomasello Developmental Science 6 (2), 185-190, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| Early verb learning: How do children learn how to compare events? JB Childers, R Parrish, CV Olson, C Burch, G Fung, KP McIntyre Journal of Cognition and Development 17 (1), 41-66, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| 2½-year-old children use animacy and syntax to learn a new noun JB Childers, CH Echols Infancy 5 (1), 109-125, 2004 | 29 | 2004 |
| Children use different cues to guide noun and verb extensions JB Childers, ME Heard, K Ring, A Pai, J Sallquist Language Learning and Development 8 (3), 233-254, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| The structural alignment and comparison of events in verb acquisition JB Childers Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 30 (30), 2008 | 24 | 2008 |
| Experimental investigations of children’s understanding and use of verb morphology: Spanish-and English-speaking 2 1/2-and 3-year-old children J Childers, AM Fernandez, C Echols, M Tomasello M. Almgen, A., Bareña, MJ Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal, & B. MacWhinney (Eds …, 2001 | 22 | 2001 |
| Does variability across events affect verb learning in English, Mandarin, and Korean? JB Childers, JH Paik, M Flores, G Lai, M Dolan Cognitive science 41, 808-830, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Attention to explicit and implicit contrast in verb learning JB Childers, A Hirshkowitz, K Benavides Journal of Cognition and Development 15 (2), 213-237, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| Does children’s visual attention to specific objects affect their verb learning? JB Childers, B Porter, M Dolan, CB Whitehead, KP McIntyre First Language 40 (1), 21-40, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Learning individual verbs and the verb system: When are multiple examples helpful? M Imai, JB Childers Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood: Learning …, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Early verb learners: creative or not? JB Childers Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 74 (2), 133, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| Language and concept acquisition from infancy through childhood: Learning from multiple exemplars JB Childers Springer Nature, 2020 | 7* | 2020 |
| Verbs: Learning how speakers use words to refer to actions JB Childers, A Bottera, T Howard Early word learning, 70-82, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
Michael TomaselloDuke University, Max Planck for Evolutionary AnthropologyVerified email at duke.edu
