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The Contribution of Early Communication Quality to Low-Income Children's Language Success by Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Adamson, Lauren B., Bakeman, Roger, Owen, Margaret Tresch, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Pace, Amy, Yust, Paula K. S., Suma, Katharine

“…The disparity in the amount and quality of language that low-income children hear relative to their more-affluent peers is often referred to as the…”
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Trading Spaces: Carving Up Events for Learning Language by Göksun, Tilbe, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick

“…Relational terms (e.g., verbs and prepositions) are the cornerstone of language development, bringing together two distinct fields: linguistic theory and…”
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Imageability Predicts the Age of Acquisition of Verbs in Chinese Children by Ma, Weiyi, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, McDonough, Colleen, Tardif, Twila

“…Verbs are harder to learn than nouns in English and in many other languages, but are relatively easy to learn in Chinese. This paper evaluates one potential…”
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Portrait of early science education in majority dual language learner classrooms: Where do we start? by Rumper, Brooke, Frechette, Elizabeth, Sharifnia, Elica, Greenfield, Daryl, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

“…Despite the growing interest in early science education, there is much left to be explored, particularly in majority Dual Language Learning (DLL) classrooms…”
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A developmental shift from similar to language-specific strategies in verb acquisition: A comparison of English, Spanish, and Japanese by Maguire, Mandy J., Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Imai, Mutsumi, Haryu, Etsuko, Vanegas, Sandra, Okada, Hiroyuki, Pulverman, Rachel, Sanchez-Davis, Brenda

“…The world’s languages draw on a common set of event components for their verb systems. Yet, these components are differentially distributed across languages…”
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Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth by Singer, Dorothy

“…Why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too burned out to profit from the smorgasbord of intellectual delights that they…”
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Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events by Pulverman, Rachel, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Buresh, Jennifer Sootsman

“…Do 14- to 17-month-olds notice the paths and manners of motion events? English- and Spanish-learning infants were habituated to an animated motion event…”
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Who is crossing where? Infants’ discrimination of figures and grounds in events by Göksun, Tilbe, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Imai, Mutsumi, Konishi, Haruka, Okada, Hiroyuki

“…► Three studies examined infants’ abilities to process figures and grounds in events. ► Infants noticed figures and grounds in both static and dynamic events…”
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Language Matters: Denying the Existence of the 30‐Million‐Word Gap Has Serious Consequences by Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hoff, Erika, Rowe, Meredith L., Tamis‐LeMonda, Catherine S., Hirsh‐Pasek, Kathy

“…Sperry, Sperry, and Miller (2018) aim to debunk what is called the 30‐million‐word gap by claiming that children from lower income households hear more speech…”
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Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development by Pace, Amy, Luo, Rufan, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick

“…Children from low-income backgrounds consistently perform below their more advantaged peers on standardized measures of language ability, setting long-term…”
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Evaluating socioeconomic gaps in preschoolers’ vocabulary, syntax and language process skills with the Quick Interactive Language Screener (QUILS) by Levine, Dani, Pace, Amy, Luo, Rufan, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta, de Villiers, Jill, Iglesias, Aquiles, Sweig Wilson, Mary

“…•Children’s performance on the Quick Interactive Language Screener differed by SES.•SES effects were comparable for vocabulary, syntax, and language-learning…”
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How toddlers begin to learn verbs by Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

“…Any theory of language must account for how children learn verbs, the gateway to grammar. Yet verbs can be difficult to learn. Building on Gentner's ‘natural…”
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Contributions of executive function and spatial skills to preschool mathematics achievement by Verdine, Brian N., Irwin, Casey M., Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn

“…•Assessed preschool spatial ability, executive function (EF), vocabulary, and math.•Generalizable spatial and EF skills play an important role in math…”
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A Goal Bias in Action: The Boundaries Adults Perceive in Events Align With Sites of Actor Intent by Levine, Dani, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Pace, Amy, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta

“…We live in a dynamic world comprised of continuous events. Remembering our past and predicting future events, however, requires that we segment these ongoing…”
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Understanding cross-cultural differences in pedagogical beliefs: A comparison among South Korean, Spanish, and German early childhood teachers by Lee, Ji Young, Sagastui, Jone, Mischo, Christoph, Masters, Allyson S., Peters, Svenja, Wolstein, Katrin, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

“…This study aimed to elucidate how cultural values and the ECE context in three distinct countries —South Korea, Spain, and Germany— shape teachers'…”
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Investigating the contributions of active, playful learning to student interest and educational outcomes by Blinkoff, Elias, Nesbitt, Kimberly T., Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

“…A growing body of evidence from the science of learning demonstrates the educational effectiveness of active, playful learning. Connections are emerging…”
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Put Your Data to Use: Entering the Real World of Children and Families by Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick

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Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy by Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick

“…ABSTRACT Decades of research demonstrate that a strong curricular approach to preschool education is important for later developmental outcomes. Although these…”
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Twenty-Five Years Using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to Study Language Acquisition: What Have We Learned? by Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, Ma, Weiyi, Song, Lulu, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy

“…The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the…”
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Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs by Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta

“…Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives…”
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