Faculty
David Barner
Assistant Professor
Dr.Barner is interested in language and conceptual development in
children and the interface between language structure and meaning. In
his lab, these questions are investigated by comparing speakers of
different languages, and comparing pre-linguistic infants to older
children and adults.
Representative Publications
Barner, D., & Snedeker, J. (2008). Compositionality and statistics in
adjective acquisition: 4-year-olds interpret tall and short based on
the size distributions of novel noun referents. Child Development, 79,
594-608.
Barner, D., & Wagner, L., & Snedeker, J. (2008). Events and the
ontology of individuals: Verbs as a source of individuating mass and
count nouns. Cognition, 106, 805-832.
Barner, D., & Snedeker, J. (2005). Quantity judgments and
individuation: Evidence that mass nouns count. Cognition, 97, 41-66.
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