Publications

 Wall, J. L., & Merriman, W. E. (2020). The pragmatics of discovery constrains children’s tendency to map novel labels onto novel objects. First Language. Full Text

Hartin, T. L., & Merriman, W. E. (2019). Grouping affects children’s interpretation of a label for an animal, but not for an artifact. First Language, 39(5), 571–590. Full Text

Henning, K. J., & Merriman, W. E. (2019). The disambiguation prediction effect. Journal of Cognition & Development, 20, 334-353. Full Text

Lipko-Speed, A. R., Buchert, S., & Merriman, W. E. (2018). Observing an adult model can cause immediate improvement in preschoolers’ knowledge judgments. Cognitive Development, 48, 225-234. Full Text

Scofield, J., Merriman, W. E., & Wall, J. L. (2018). The effect of a tactile-to-visual shift on young children’s tendency to map novel labels onto novel objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 1–12. Full Text

Slocum, J. Y., & Merriman, W. E. (2018). The metacognitive disambiguation effect. Journal of Cognition & Development, 19, 87-106. Full Text

Wall, J. L., Thompson, C., Dunlosky, J., & Merriman, W. E. (2016). Children can accurately monitor and control their number-line estimation performance. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1493-1502. Full Text

Hartin, T.L., & Merriman, W. E. (2016). Children's interpretation of a label for an individuated object: Dependence on age and ontological kind. First Language, 36, 428-447. Full Text

Hartin, T. L., Stevenson, C. M., & Merriman, W. E. (2016). Pre-exposure to objects that contrast in familiarity improves young children's lexical knowledge judgment. Language Learning & Development, 12, 311-327. Full Text

Wall, J. L., Merriman, W. E., & Scofield, J. (2015). Young children's disambiguation across the senses. Cognitive Development, 35, 163-177. Full Text

Merriman, W. E. (2014). Lexical Development. In P. Brooks, V. Kempe, & J.G. Golson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development. SAGE: New York. Full Text

Lipowski, S. L., Merriman, W. E., & Dunlosky, J. (2013). Preschoolers can make highly accurate judgments of learning. Developmental Psychology, 49(8), 1505-1516. Full Text

Lipowski, S. L., & Merriman, W. E. (2011). Knowledge judgments and object memory processes in early childhood: Support for the dual criterion account of object namability judgment. Journal of Cognition & Development, 12, 481-501. Full Text

Marazita, J. M., & Merriman, W. E. (2011). Verifying one's knowledge of a name without retrieving it: A U-shaped relation to vocabulary size in early childhood. Language Learning & Development, 7(1), 40-54. Full Text

Merriman, W. E., & Lipko, A. R. (2008). A dual criterion account of the development of linguistic judgment in early childhood. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(4), 1012-1031. Full Text

Merriman, W. E., Lipko, A. R., & Evey, J. A. (2008). How young children judge whether a word is one they know: A dual criterion account. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101(2), 83-98. Full Text

Merriman, W. E., & Marazita, J. M. (2004). Young children’s awareness of their own lexical ignorance: Relations to word mapping, memory processes, and beliefs about change detection. Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children, 57-74. Full Text

• LAB ADDRESS
  Department of Psychology
  Kent State University
  186 Kent Hall
  Ph. 330-672-2059
   

• PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
  William Merriman
  Professor of Psychology 
  201 Kent Hall
  Ph. 330-672-2059
  wmerrim@kent.edu