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| Patricia J BrooksSummaryAffiliation: City University of New York Country: USA Publications
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Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbsP J Brooks
Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, The College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, 10314, USA
Dev Psychol 35:29-44. 1999..Thus, before their 3rd birthdays, some children have an understanding of the passive and active transitive constructions general enough to support productive usages with newly learned verbs...- Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbsP J Brooks
Department of Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, College of Staten Island, City University of New York 10314, USA
Child Dev 70:1325-37. 1999..As children solidly learn the transitivity status of particular verbs, they become more reluctant to use those verbs in other argument structure constructions... - Phonological priming in children's picture namingP J Brooks
Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, College of Staten Island City University of New York, Staten Island 10314, USA
J Child Lang 27:335-66. 2000..This increased prominence of the onset can be viewed as one component of a just-in-time, incrementalist approach to speech production that allows adults to speak more fluently than children... - Does preemption help children learn verb transitivity?Patricia J Brooks
Department of Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, 4S 223, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
J Child Lang 29:759-81. 2002..The results identify limits in children's usage of indirect negative evidence in acquiring verb argument structure constructions... 
Effects of onset- and rhyme-related distractors on phonological processing in children with specific language impairmentLiat Seiger-Gardner
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 51:1263-81. 2008..This study used the cross-modal picture-word interference task of P. J. Brooks and B. MacWhinney (2000) to compare effects of phonologically related words on lexical access in children with specific language impairment (SLI)...- Eye movements during spoken word recognition in Russian childrenIrina A Sekerina
Department of Psychology, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 98:20-45. 2007..The dissociation between coarse-grain and fine-grain eye movements indicates a need to consider multiple behavioral measures in making developmental comparisons in language processing... - Exploring the time course of semantic interference and associative priming in the picture-word interference taskKevin Sailor
Department of Psychology, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY 10468, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 62:789-801. 2009..The overlapping time course of associative priming and coordinate interference provides important constraints on models of lexical access in speech production... - The key to cultural innovation lies in the group dynamic rather than in the individual mindSonia Ragir
College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA
Behav Brain Sci 35:237-8. 2012..The transition from Acheulean to Late Stone Age technologies requires that we consider how population and social dynamics affect cultural innovation and mental function... - Developmental change in the cross-modal Stroop effectJulie B Hanauer
City University of New York, Staten Island, New York 10314, USA
Percept Psychophys 65:359-66. 2003..Development in executive functioning may also contribute to the interference effect's becoming progressively weaker with age... - Crosslinguistic evidence for the diminutive advantage: gender agreement in Russian and Serbian childrenNada Seva
University of Stirling, United Kingdom
J Child Lang 34:111-31. 2007.... - Diminutives facilitate word segmentation in natural speech: cross-linguistic evidenceVera Kempe
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Mem Cognit 35:762-73. 2007..This confirms that word ending invariance is a valid segmentation cue in artificial, as well as naturalistic, speech and that diminutives may aid segmentation in a number of languages... - Diminutivization supports gender acquisition in Russian childrenVera Kempe
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
J Child Lang 30:471-85. 2003..The study demonstrates how features of child-directed speech can facilitate language learning... - Diminutives in child-directed speech supplement metric with distributional word segmentation cuesVera Kempe
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Psychon Bull Rev 12:145-51. 2005..Together, the results demonstrate that diminutives contain prosodic and distributional features that are beneficial for word segmentation... - Contributions of response set and semantic relatedness to cross-modal Stroop-like picture-word interference in children and adultsJulie B Hanauer
Department of Social Sciences, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY 11784, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 90:21-47. 2005..These results indicate developmental changes in picture-word interference involving the establishment of a response set in working memory...