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Melissa Bowerman

Melissa Bowerman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
10709
World Ranking
4320
National Ranking
115

Overview

Melissa Bowerman was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany during their academic career. They contributed to the scientific community through research work associated with this institution.

There are no recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work listed for Melissa Bowerman in the available data. Additionally, no awards or honors have been recorded in the source information.

The absence of these details limits a more detailed insight into their scientific contributions and specialization areas. However, the association with the Max Planck Society indicates involvement in a prominent European research environment.

Best Publications

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: the influence of language-specific lexicalization patterns.

    Soonja Choi;Melissa Bowerman

  • Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

    Melissa Bowerman;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Structure and variation in child language.

    Lois Bloom;Patsy Lightbown;Lois Hood;Melissa Bowerman

  • Shaping meanings for language: Universal and language-specific in the acquisition of semantic categories

    Melissa Bowerman;Soonja Choi

  • Learning how to structure space for language: A crosslinguistic perspective

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Early Syntactic Development: A Cross-Linguistic Study with Special Reference to Finnish

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Reorganizational processes in lexical and syntactic development

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Early Sensitivity to Language-Specific Spatial Categories in English and Korean

    Soonja Choi;Laraine McDonough;Melissa Bowerman;Jean M Mandler

  • The 'no negative evidence' problem: How do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?

    Melissa Bowerman

  • The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking

    Asifa Majid;James S. Boster;Melissa Bowerman

  • The origins of children's spatial semantic categories: Cognitive vs. linguistic determinants

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Mapping thematic roles onto syntactic functions: Are children helped by innate linking rules?

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Space under construction: Language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition

    Melissa Bowerman;Soonja Choi

  • The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Miriam Van Staden;James S. Boster

  • Learning the structure of causative verbs: A study in the relationship of cognitive, semantic, and syntactic development

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Starting to talk worse: Clues to language acquisition from children's late speech errors

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Evaluating competing linguistic models with language acquisition data: Implications of developmental errors with causative verbs.

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Semantic factors in the acquisition of rules for word use and sentence construction

    Melissa Bowerman

  • The acquisition of word meaning: An investigation into some current conflicts

    Melissa Bowerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne Gullberg Lund University
Dan I. Slobin
Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Jean M. Mandler
Jean M. Mandler University of California, San Diego
Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig Max Planck Society
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Eve V. Clark
Eve V. Clark Stanford University
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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