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Elizabet Spaepen

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Abner N, Namboodiripad S, Spaepen E, Goldin-Meadow S
Lang Learn Dev . 2022 May; 18(1):16-40. PMID: 35603228
Human languages, signed and spoken, can be characterized by the structural patterns they use to associate communicative with . One such pattern is paradigmatic morphology, where complex words are built...
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Gibson D, Gunderson E, Spaepen E, Levine S, Goldin-Meadow S
Dev Sci . 2018 Dec; 22(3):e12791. PMID: 30566755
When asked to explain their solutions to a problem, children often gesture and, at times, these gestures convey information that is different from the information conveyed in speech. Children who...
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Spaepen E, Gunderson E, Gibson D, Goldin-Meadow S, Levine S
Cognition . 2018 Jul; 180:59-81. PMID: 30007878
Learning the cardinal principle (the last word reached when counting a set represents the size of the whole set) is a major milestone in early mathematics. But researchers disagree about...
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Gunderson E, Spaepen E, Gibson D, Goldin-Meadow S, Levine S
Cognition . 2015 Jul; 144:14-28. PMID: 26210644
Before learning the cardinal principle (knowing that the last word reached when counting a set represents the size of the whole set), children do not use number words accurately to...
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Gunderson E, Spaepen E, Levine S
J Exp Child Psychol . 2014 Dec; 130:35-55. PMID: 25462030
Approximate number word knowledge-understanding the relation between the count words and the approximate magnitudes of sets-is a critical piece of knowledge that predicts later math achievement. However, researchers disagree about...
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Spaepen E, Coppola M, Flaherty M, Spelke E, Goldin-Meadow S
J Mem Lang . 2013 Nov; 69(4). PMID: 24187432
are communication systems created by deaf individuals without access to conventional linguistic input. To investigate how homesign gestures for number function in short-term memory compared to homesign gestures for objects,...
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Coppola M, Spaepen E, Goldin-Meadow S
Cogn Psychol . 2013 Jul; 67(1-2):1-25. PMID: 23872365
All natural languages have formal devices for communicating about number, be they lexical (e.g., two, many) or grammatical (e.g., plural markings on nouns and/or verbs). Here we ask whether linguistic...
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Spaepen E, Coppola M, Spelke E, Carey S, Goldin-Meadow S
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2011 Feb; 108(8):3163-8. PMID: 21300893
Cross-cultural studies suggest that access to a conventional language containing words that can be used for counting is essential to develop representations of large exact numbers. However, cultures that lack...
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Spaepen E, Spelke E
Cogn Psychol . 2006 Jul; 54(2):133-54. PMID: 16872591
Infants as young as 5 months of age view familiar actions such as reaching as goal-directed (Woodward, 1998), but how do they construe the goal of an actor's reach? Six...