Publications on Relations between Language and Cognition (Ages 4-10)

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1982, April). Representations, abstractions and weights: An integrated account of kin term acquisition. Invited presentation, Chicago Study Group for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Chicago, IL. (Based on the manuscript of the same title by A. A. Abrahamsen and B. Landau.)

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1982). Recasting the language-cognition question in a non-Piagetian process model framework: A reply to Van Kleeck. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 28, 437-443.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1981). Why some modified class inclusion tasks are easy for young children: A process model for finding referents of labels in arrays. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berkeley, California.

Abrahamsen, A. A. (1979, May). Difficulties with tests of children's difficulties with time and space language. Invited address, Fifth New York Child Language Conference, New York, NY.

Landau, B., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1977, December). Children's evolving kin term representations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Carson, M. T., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1976). Some members are more equal than others: The effect of semantic typicality on class-inclusion performance. Child Development, 47, 1186-1190.

Webb, P. A., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1976). Stages of egocentrism in children's use of 'this' and 'that': A different point of view. Journal of Child Language, 3, 349-367.

Tinder, P. A., Arnold, M. R., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1976, April). Development of spatial adjectives in nursery-school children. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Ginsberg, E. H., & Abrahamsen, A. A. (1976, September). Children's comprehension of sentences expressing simultaneity and sequentiality. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C.