Publications
In Preparation
Avelar, D., Weisleder, A., & Golinkoff, R. M. (In preparation). The development of the Spanish and English Reading Questionnaire (SER-Q).
Blinkoff, R., Bustamente, A., Burchinal, M., Gunersel, A. B., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (In preparation). Promoting 21st century skills in elementary education through a research-practice partnership: a mixed methods study.
Evans, N., Todaro, R., Schlesinger, M. A., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (In preparation). Building blocks of creativity: How guided play enhances divergent thinking. In R. Beghetto, & G. Jaeger (Eds.), Uncertainty: A catalyst for creativity, learning, and development.
Preston, M., Gaudreau, C. M., Neale, D., Alibali, M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (In preparation). Understanding the mechanisms behind embodiment in education.
In Press
Evans, N.S., Schlesinger, M.A., Hopkins, E.J., Jaeger, G.J., Golinkoff, R.M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press). Are preschoolers creative? A review of the literature. In S.W. Russ, J.D. Hoffmann, & J.C. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of lifespan development of creativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Masek, L., McMillan, B. T. M., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (In press). The roots of conversation: Measuring interactions between caregivers and infants. Developmental Review.
Masek, L. R., Scott, M. E., Dore, R., Luo, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (In press). Now you’re talking: Vocabulary development in the home context. In C. M. Cassano & S. M. Dougherty (Eds.), Pivotal research in early literacy. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Masters, A. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Levine, D., & Golinkoff, R. M. (In press). Parents matter: The cornerstone for children’s cognitive and language development. Cambridge handbook of parenting.
2022
2021
Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2021). Active learning in the community. Science, 374, 27.
2020
Levine, D., Avelar, D., Golinkoff, R. M., Houston, D., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2020). Foundations of language development in deaf and hard-of-hearing infants: Cognitive and social processes. In M. Marschark & H. Knoors (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of deaf studies in learning and cognition, pp. 21-32. NY: Oxford University Press.
Levine, D., Blinkoff, E., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2020). “Languagizing” the preschool classroom: Six principles. In M. Daszkiewicz & A. Dąbrowska (Eds.), In the search for language pedagogical paradigm (pp. 163-171). Krakow: Impuls.
Levine, D., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2020). Infant word learning and emerging syntax. In J. Lockman & C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of infant development.
2019
Dore, R.A., Hassinger-Das, B. Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M. (2019). Translating research into effective partnerships. IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
Hassinger-Das, B., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2019). Brain science and guided play. In M. L. Masterson & H. Bohart (Eds)., Serious fun: How guided play extends learning, (pp. 11-20). Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Hopkins, E., Toub, T. S., Hassinger-Das, B., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Playing for the future: redefining early childhood education. In D. Whitebread (Ed.),
Hopkins, E. J., Toub, T. S., Hassinger-Das, B., Golinkoff, R. M, & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Playing for the future: Redefining early childhood education. In D. Whitebread et al. (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of developmental psychology and early childhood education. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Zosh, J. M., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Leveraging the how and what of learning and app development to create truly educational apps and move science forward. IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
2018
Alper, R. M., Masek, L.R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2018). “Languagizing” the early childhood classroom: Supporting children’s language development. In C.T. Adger, C.E. Snow, & D. Christian (Eds.), What teachers need to know about language (2 nd Edition), (pp. 85-94). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Singh, L., Fu, C. S., Tay, Z. H., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2018). Effects of phonemic and non-phonemic variation on associative word learning in bilingual infants: Evidence for a bilingual advantage. Child Development.
Toub, T. S., Hassinger-Das, B., Nesbitt, K. T., Ilgaz, H., Weisberg, D. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Nicolopoulou, A., & Dickinson, D. (2018). The language of play: Developing preschool vocabulary through play following shared book-reading. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 1-17.
2017
Göksun, T., Aktan-Erciyes, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (2017). Event perception and language learning: Early interactions between language and thought. In N. Ketrez, A. C. Küntay, Ş. Özçalışkan, & A. Özyürek (Eds.), Social environment and cognition in language development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç (pp. 179-198). London: John Benjamins.
Goksun, T., Erciyes, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M., (2017). Event perception and language learning: Early interactions between language and thought. In N. Ketrez, A. C. Küntay, Ş. Özçalışkan, & A. Özyürek (Eds.) Social environment and cognition in language development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç (pp. 179-198). New York: John Benjamins.
Grob, R., Schlesinger, M., Pace, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2017). Playing with Ideas: evaluating a collective experiential intervention designed to enrich perceptions of play. Child Development, 88, 1419-1434.
Hassinger-Das, B., Zosh, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2017). Toys. In K. Peppler (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of out-of-school learning (pp. 781-783). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Verdine, B., Bunger, A., Athanasopoulou, A., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2017). Preschool geometric knowledge: Low socio-economic status children are slower to find a target even when they know a shape’s name. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1869-1880.
2016
Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2016). The preschool paradox. A review of E. Christakis’, The importance of being little: What preschoolers really need from grownups. Science, 15, 1158.
Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2016). Two missions in search of a shared culture. In Sobel, D. M., & Jipson, J. (Eds.). Cognitive development in museum settings: Relating research to practice (pp. 222-230). New York: Psychology Press.
2015
Ilgaz, H., Hassinger-Das, B., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2014). Language for reading. In P. Brooks, V. Kempe, & G. J. Golson (Eds.) Encyclopedia of language development (pp. 323-326). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Newman, K., Dickinson, D., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2015). Using play to promote language comprehension in preschoolers. In A. DeBruin-Parecki, A., van Kleeck, & S. Gear (Eds.), Developing early comprehension: Laying the foundation for reading success (pp. 35- 52). MD: Brookes.
Zosh, J., Reed, J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2014). Play and its role in language development. In P. Brooks, V. Kempe, & G. J. Golson (Eds.) Encyclopedia of language development, (pp. 467-471). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2014
2013
Can, D. Deniz, Ginsburg-Block, M., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2013). Long-term predictive validity of the MCDI Short Forms: Early parental reports of language in relation to children’s language and literacy abilities four years later. Journal of Child Language, 40, 821-835.
Singh, L., Chan, C., Tam, J. H., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2013). Infants’ sensitivity to tone and vowel mispronunciations in novel word learning. Developmental Science, 1-16.
2012
Golinkoff, R. M. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2012). How do babies learn their mother tongue? In E. M. Rickerson & B. Hilton (Eds.), The 5-minute linguist (pp. 68-71). Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2nd edition.
Golinkoff, R. M. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2012). Methods for studying language in infants: Back to the future. In E. Hoff (Ed.), Research methods in child language: A practical guide (pp. 60-75). NY: Wiley-Blackwell.
2011
Ma, W., Golinkoff, R. M., Houston, D. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2011). Word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech. Language Learning and Development, 7, 209-225.
2010
Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, January). The Ultimate Block Party: Putting our science in the hands of families. Developments: Newsletter of SRCD, 54, 5-6.
2009
Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Parish-Morris, J., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Live action: Can young children learn verbs from video? Child Development, 80, 1360-1375.
2008
Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Gryfe, R. G. (2008). Conceptual split? Parents’and experts’ perceptions of play in the 21st century. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29, 305-316.
Pruden, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Shallcross, W. L., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008). Foundations of verb learning: Comparison helps infants abstract event components. In H. Chan, H. Jacob, & E. Kapia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32 st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 2, pp. 402- 414. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Sootsman Buresh, J. (2008). Manners matter: Infants’ attention to manner and path in non-linguistic dynamic events. Cognition, 108, 825-830.
2007
Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hennon, E. A., Maguire, M. J., & Sootsman, J. (2007). O modelo “emergenista” de colalizão da aprendizagem de palavaras: Uma nova maneira de se pensar na psicologia do desenvolvimento (The emergentist coalition model of word learning: A new mode of thinking in developmental psychology). In L. M. S. Corrê (Ed.), Aquisicão de linguagem e problemas do desenvolvimento lingüistico (Language development and problems in the development of language). Rio de Janeiro: Editora da PUC-Rio.
2006
Brandone, A., Salkind, S., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2006). Language development. In G. Bear & K. Minke (Eds.), Children’s needs: Development, prevention, and intervention, pp. 499-514. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.
Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2006). How do babies learn to talk? In E. M. Rickerson (Ed.), The five-minute linguist: Bite-sized essays on language and languages. London: Equinox Publishing.
Pulverman, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Pruden, S., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2006). Frühkindliche Voraussetzunger für das Erlenen von Verben (Precursors to verb learning: Infant attention to manner and path). Frühförderung interdisziplinar interdisziplinär. Journal of Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Interventions, 25, 3-14.
2005
2004
Pulverman, R. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2004). Seven-month-olds’ attention to potential verb referents in nonlinguistic events. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 473-481). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2003
2002
Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M. (2002). Language development. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Child development encyclopedia (pp. 228-232). NY: MacMillan Reference USA.
2001
Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Goroff, J. H., & Carpenter, Q. A. (2001). How do preschool children acquire superordinate words? In A. Do, L. Dominguez, & A. Johansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 446-457). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2000
Arnold, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Hollich, G., Driscoll, K., Rocroi, C., & et al., (2000).The whole is greater than the sum of the parts: Investigating the object scope principle of lexical acquisition. In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 68-79). Ithaca, NY: Cascadilla Press.
Hennon, B., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2000). The extraordinary journey from fetus to language-developing child. In H. Grimm (Ed.), German encyclopedia of psychology, series III:Language, volume 3: Language development 3 (pp. 41-103). Toronto: Hogrefe-Verlag.
1999
Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Hollich, G. (1999). Emerging cues for word learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The emergence of language (pp. 305-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1998
Hollich, G., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1998). Introducing the 3-D intermodal preferential looking paradigm. In C. Rovee-Collier (Ed.), Advances in infancy research Vol. 12, (pp. 355-373). Norwod, NJ: Ablex.
1996
Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1996). How children learn to talk. In W. R. Dell (Ed.), The world book health & medical annual (pp. 92-105). Chicago: World Book, Inc.
Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1996). The preferential looking paradigm reveals emerging language comprehension. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee, & H. Cairns (Eds.), Methods for assessing children’s syntax (pp. 105-124). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
1995
Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Mervis, C. B., Frawley, W., & Parillo, M. (1995). Lexical principles can be extended to the acquisition of verbs. In M. Tomasello & W. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things: Young children’s acquisition of verbs (pp. 185-222). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hermon, G., & Kaufman, D. (1995). Evidence from comprehension for the early knowledge of pronouns. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 53-59). Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
1994
Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Reeves, L. (1994). Constructivist explanations for language acquisition may be insufficient: The case for language-specific principles. In W. Overton & D. S. Palermo (Eds.), The nature and ontogenesis of meaning (pp. 237-254). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
1993
1992
1991
1990-1986
Cauley, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Gordon, L. (1989). Revealing hidden competencies: A new method for studying language comprehension in children with motor impairments. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 94, 53-63.
1984
Golinkoff, R. M. (1984). Causal development: Philosophical and psychological bases. (Part of symposium on causality in infancy organized by R. M. Golinkoff.) In L. P. Lipsitt (Ed.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 3, pp. 127-129). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Golinkoff, R. M., Harding, C. G., Carlson-Luden, V., & Sexton, M. E. (1984). The infant’s perception of causal events: The distinction between animate and inanimate objects. (Part of above symposium). In L. P. Lipsitt (Ed.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 3, pp. 145-151). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
1983
Golinkoff, R. M. (1983). The preverbal negotiation of failed messages: Insights into the transition period. In R. M. Golinkoff (Ed.), The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication (pp. 57-78). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Golinkoff, R. M., & Gordon, L. (1983). In the beginning was the word: A history of the study of language acquisition. In R. M. Golinkoff (Ed.), The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication (pp. 1-25). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
1981
Golinkoff, R. M. (1981). The influence of Piagetian theory on the study of the development of communication. In I. Sigel, D. Brodzinsky, & R. Golinkoff (Eds.), Piagetian theory and research: New directions and applications (pp. 127-142). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Golinkoff, R. M. (1978). Phonemic awareness and reading achievement. In F. B. Murray & J. Pikulski (Eds.), The acquisition of reading (pp. 23-41). Baltimore, MD: University Park Press.
Pace, A. M., & Golinkoff, R. M. (1976). The relationship between word difficulty and access of single-word meaning by skilled and unskilled readers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 760-767.