{"id":436,"date":"2025-02-03T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/childlab\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T01:14:14","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/childlab\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h4>Dr. Sandy LaTourrette&#8217;s Publications:<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LaTourrette, A. S., Gomes, V., Tangen, K., &amp; Trueswell, J. (2025). The development of polyseme learning under uncertainty. <em>Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Ferguson*, B., LaTourrette*, A., &amp; Waxman, S. R. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-78801-9\">Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>,\u00a0<em>14<\/em>(1), 27859.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., Blanco, C., Atik, N.D., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/childlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/462\/2025\/06\/LaTourrette-et-al.-2024-Navigating-accent-variability-24-month-olds-recognize-known-words-spoken-in-an-unfamiliar-accent-bu.pdf\">Navigating accent variability 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words. <\/a><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Infant Behavior and Development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Atik, N.D., LaTourrette, A., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2024).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/desc.13508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar- and unfamiliar-accented speech.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Developmental Science<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Chen, Y., LaTourrette, A. S., &amp; Trueswell, J. (2024). <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/273713xm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Role of Syntactic and Referential Evidence in Verb Learning across Exposures<\/a><\/span>. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., Chan, D., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2023) <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-41538-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A principled link between object naming and representationis available to infants by seven months of age. <\/a><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Scientific Reports.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., Novack, M., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2023)\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jecp.2023.105754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Longer looks for language: Novel labels lengthen fixation duration for 2-year-old children<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 236,<\/span> 105754.<\/li>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., Waxman, S.R., Wakschlag, L., Norton, E., &amp; Weisleder, A. (2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/childlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/462\/2025\/06\/LaTourrette_Waxman_Wakschlag_Norton_Weisleder_JSLHR_preprint.docx\">From Recognizing Known Words to Learning New Ones: <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Comparing online speech processing in typically developing and late talking 2-year-olds<\/span><\/a><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, \u00a066<\/span>(5), 1658-1677.<\/li>\n<li>Yue, C.S., LaTourrette, A., Yang, C., &amp; Trueswell, J. (2023). <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/26c2339w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memory as a computational constraint in cross-situational word learning.<\/a><\/span> Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.<\/li>\n<li>Chen, Y., LaTourrette, A., &amp; Trueswell, J. (2023). <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/17h4456z#:~:text=Volume%2045-,Evidence%20for%20Cross%2Dsituational%20Syntactic%20Bootstrapping%3A%20Three%2Dyear%20olds,Meaning%20across%20Different%20Syntactic%20Frames&amp;text=Previous%20research%20suggests%20that%20a,syntactic%20frames%20associated%20with%20it.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evidence for cross-situational syntactic bootstrapping:\u200b\u200b Three-year olds generalize verb meaning across different syntactic frames<\/a><\/span>. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">LaTourrette, A. &amp; Waxman, S. (2022). <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DSsC4WSpwJuaiufa6mOe-m2uy68u4hqL\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sparse labels, no problems: Infant categorization under<\/a><\/span><\/span> <a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/srcd-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.upenn.edu\/share\/9FXFDTB6Z84UYSE6UWWA?target=10.1111\/cdev.13818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">challenging conditions<\/a>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Child Development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\">LaTourrette, A., Yang, C., &amp; Trueswell, J. (2022).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/0fr8353p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When close isn\u2019t enough: Semantic similarity does not facilitate cross-situational word-learning.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2021<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LaTourrette, A. &amp; Waxman, S. (2021). <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34326711\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Object Lesson: Objects, Non-Objects, and the Power of Conceptual Construal in Adjective Extension.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Language Learning and Development, 1<\/span>\u201314.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2020<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>LaTourrette,\u00a0A. &amp; Waxman, S. (2020).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2006608117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/span>, 202006608.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2019 and prior<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">LaTourrette, A. &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2019).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30799862\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defining the role of language in infants\u2019 object categorization with eye-tracking paradigms<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Journal of Visualized Experiments.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">LaTourrette, A. &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2019).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.northwestern.edu\/icdc\/files\/2018\/09\/LaTourretteWaxman2018DevelopmentalScience-26k1tdn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A little labeling goes a long way: Semi-supervised learning in infancy<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Developmental Science. 22<\/span>(1), e12736.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">Syrett, K., LaTourrette, A., Ferguson, B., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2019).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sandy-latourrette.com\/_files\/ugd\/f4fd08_359259d359394a47b46bd6725264cfa2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crying helps, but being sad doesn\u2019t: Infants constrain nominal reference using known verbs, not known adjectives<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Cognition, 193,<\/span>\u00a0104033.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., Myers, M., &amp; Rips, L. (2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1yQUCIuXtCsA-H91owFSLVEnkNMMfvZ2d\/view?usp=sharing\">Exclusivity in Causal Reasoning.<\/a> Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 665 \u2013 670.<\/li>\n<li>LaTourrette, A., &amp; Waxman, S.R. (2017).\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">A conceptual account of children\u2019s difficulties extending adjectives across basic-level kinds.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":852,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Publications - Child Learning and Development Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/childlab\/publications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Publications - 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