Books

Journal Articles

Under Review
  • Johnson, S. C., Schalla, T., & Suanda, S. H. In the right neighborhood: Semantic coherence in parents’ ambiguous naming events [Manuscript under review].
  • Schoener, N., Johnson, S., & Suanda, S. H. Learning partial word meanings from referentially ambiguous naming events [Manuscript submitted for publication].
    2021-Present
    • Mankovich, A., Macdonald, S., Kinnie, B., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (In press). Information sources for word meaning in children’s picture books. Journal of Cognition and Development.
    • Schoener, N., Schoener, P. C., Johnson, S., & Suanda, S. H. (2023). Partial Word Learning from Referentially Ambiguous Naming Events: Evidence from a Human Simulation Paradigm. In M. Goldwater, F. K., Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
    • Boskovic, K. & Suanda, S.H. (2023). Laying the Foundation: Extracting Partial Meanings of Hard Nouns via Observational Contexts. In M. Goldwater, F. K., Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
    2011-2020
    • Abney, D. H., Suanda, S. H., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2020). What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction? Infancy. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., Barnhart, M., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2019). The signal in the noise: The visual ecology of parents’ object naming. Infancy, 24, 455-476. [pdf]
    • Elmlinger, S. L., Suanda, S. H., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2019). Toddlers’ hands organize parent-toddler attention across different social contexts. Proceedings of the Ninth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics.
    • Yu, C., Suanda, S. H., & Smith, L. B. (2019). Infant sustained attention but not joint attention to objects at 9 months predicts vocabulary at 12 and 15 months. Developmental Science, 22: e12735. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2016). The multisensory nature of verbal discourse in parent-toddler interactions. Developmental Neuropsychology, 41, 324-341. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., Smith, L. B., & Yu, C. (2016). More than words: The many ways extended discourse facilitates word learning. In Trueswell, Papafragou,Grodner, & Mirman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
    • Suanda, S. H., Mugwanya, N., & Namy, L. L. (2014). Cross-situational statistical word learning in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 395-411. [pdf]
    • Smith, L. B., Suanda, S. H., & Yu, C. (2014). The unrealized promise of infant statistical word-referent learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 251-258. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., Meyer, K. A., Broesch, T., Kolkin, L., & Namy, L. L. (2013). Two year-olds’ failure to learn gestures as object labels: A problem of association or symbolic interpretation? Language, Learning, & Development, 9, 50-65. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., & Namy, L. L. (2013). The organization of words and symbolic gestures in an 18-month-old’s lexicon: Evidence from a disambiguation task. Infancy, 18, 276-288. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., & Namy, L. L. (2013). Young word learner’s interpretations of words and symbolic gestures within the context of ambiguous reference. Child Development, 84, 143-153. [pdf]
    • Suanda, S. H., Foster, S.B., Smith, L., & Yu, C. (2013). Attentional constraints and statistics in toddlers’ word learning. Proceedings of the Third Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics.
    • Suanda, S. H., & Namy, L. L. (2012). Detailed Behavioral Analysis as a Window into Cross-Situational Word Learning. Cognitive Science, 36, 545-559. [pdf]
      2010 & Earlier
      • Suanda, S. H., Tompson, W., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Changes in the ability to detect ordinal numerical relationships between 9 and 11 months of age. Infancy, 13, 308-337.
      • Jordan, K. E., Suanda, S. H., & Brannon, E. M. (2008). Intersensory redundancy accelerates preverbal numerical competence. Cognition, 108, 210-221.
      • Brannon, E. M., Suanda, S. H. & Libertus, K. (2007). Increasing precision in temporal discrimination over development parallels the development of number discrimination. Developmental Science, 10, 770-777.
      • Danso, H. A., Sedlovskaya, A., & Suanda, S. H. (2007). Perceptions of immigrants: Modifying the attitudes of individuals higher in social dominance orientation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1113-1123.

      Conference Presentations

      2021-Present
      • Boskovic, K., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, July 24-27). Revisiting the Role of Observational Contexts for Learning Hard Nouns [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [pdf]
      • Schoener, N., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, July 24-27). Partial Verb Learning via Observational Contexts [Poster presentation]. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands. [pdf]
      • Boskovic, K., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, July 8-11). Revising the Informativity of Observational Contexts for Early-Learned Hard Nouns [Oral Presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
      • Mankovich, A. & Suanda, S. H. (2024, July 8-11). Picturing Words in Children’s Picture Books. [Paper Presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.
      • Suanda, S. H., Boskovic, K., Schoener, N., & Yang, M. (2024, May 20-23). What Counts as Learning Matters: How Words are Learned in a Malevolent Referent World [Poster Presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, Austin, TX, United States. [pdf]
      • Boskovic, K., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, March 21-23). Evaluating Observational Contexts for Learning Hard Nouns: How Word Learning is Measured is Key [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States. [pdf]
      • Mankovich, A., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, March 21-23). Visual Tales: Navigating Word Worlds Through Picture Book Illustrations [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States. [pdf]
      • Schoener, N., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, March 21-23). See What I Mean? Learning Verbs from their Observational Contexts [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States. [pdf]
      • Yang, M.H., Williams, J.-A., Stoddard, B., Schoener, N., & Suanda, S. H. (2024, March 21-23). Acquiring Word Knowledge from Low Informative Input [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States. [pdf]
      • Boskovic, K. & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). In the Right Ballpark: Systematic Partial Learning of Hard Nouns from their Observational Contexts [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Capobianco, G. & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). Environmental Context and Referential Ambiguity: A Human Simulation Paradigm Study [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Ciccarini, M. & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). Apples to Oranges: The Effects of Semantic Context on Referential Ambiguity [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Mankovich, A. & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). How the Visual World of Picture Books Supports Word Learning: A Multi-Methodological Approach [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Schoener, N., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). Partial Word Learning from Referentially Ambiguous Naming Events [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Williams, J.-A., Schoener, N., Stoddard, B., & Suanda, S. H. (2023, March 23-25). Learning Words From Referentially Ambiguous Naming Events: Evidence From a New Artificial Word Learning Paradigm [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
      • Schoener, N., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (2022, July 27-30). How words can be learned by observation depends on what is meant by "learned" [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON, Canada.
      • Mankovich, A., MacDonald, S., Kinnie, B., Logan, A. E., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (2022, April 21-23). Information sources for word meaning in children’s picture books [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Development Society, Madison, WI, United States.
      • Schoener, N., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (2022, April 21-23). How words can be learned by observation depends on what is meant by "learned" [Poster Presentation]. Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Madison, WI, United States.
      • Mankovich, A., Suanda, S. H., & Naigles, L. (2022, April 1-2). Object play dynamics during late toddlerhood: Insight into language development for children with autism spectrum disorder [Poster Presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development: Special Meeting for Learning through Play and Imagination, Saint Louis, MO, United States.
      • Mankovich, A., Suanda, S. H., & Naigles, L. (2022, April 1-2). Information sources for word meaning in children’s picture books [Poster Presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development: Special Meeting for Learning through Play and Imagination, Saint Louis, MO, United States.
      • Johnson, S. C., Schalla, T., & Suanda, S. H. (2021, April 7-9). In the right neighborhood: Semantic coherence in parents’ ambiguous naming events [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
      • Long, M. N., Quinn, E. & Suanda, S. H. (2021, April 7-9). When Cues Collide: Parents’ Speech Disambiguates between Conflicting Socio-Perceptual Cues to Reference [Poster presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
      • Long, M. N. & Suanda, S. H. (2021, April 7-9). The Other Clutter: Verbal Clutter and Statistical Word-Referent Learning [Flash talk presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States
      • MacDonald, S., Kinnie, B., Logan, A. E., Green, Z., Johnson, S. C., & Suanda, S. H. (2021, April 7-9). Information sources for word meaning in children’s picture books [Poster Presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.