A priori arguments
Chapter 3 from Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct: How the mind creates language. William Morrow & Co.: New York.
Slobin, D. I (1996). From "thought and language" to "thinking for speaking." In Gumperz, JJ., & Levinson, SC. (Eds.,) Rethinking linguistic relativity. Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, No. 17. (pp. 70-96).
Hunt, E., & Agnoli, F. (1991). The Whorfian hypothesis: A cognitive psychology perspective. Psychological Review. Vol 98(3): 377-389.
Language as selector vs. constructor
1. tight/loose
McDonough, L., Choi, S., & Mandler, J. (2003). Understanding spatial relations: Flexible Infants, Lexical Adults. Cognitive Psychology,46(3),229-59.
Hespos, S. J. & Spelke, E. S. (unpublished). Conceptual precursors to language.
2. directionality in reading
Yamada, R. A. & Tohkura, Y. (1992). The effects of experimental variables on the perception of American English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese listeners. Perception & Psychophysics, 52, 376-392.
Strange, W. & Dittman, S. (1984). Effects of discrimination training on the perception of /r-l/ by Japanese adults learning English. Perception & Psychophysics, 36, 131-145.
3. vowels
Kuhl, P. K. (2000). Language, mind & brain: Experience alters perception. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The New Cognitive Neurosciences. MIT Press.
Color & Shape
Rosch, E.H. (1973) Natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 4, 328-350.
Roberson, D., Davidoff, J., Shapiro, L. (in press). Squaring the circle: The cultural relativity of ‘good’ shape. To appear in Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Time
1. tense and temporal order
Guiora, A. (1983). Language and concept formation: A cross-lingual analysis. Behavior Science Research. Vol 18(3): 228-256.
2. time as distance and quantity
Mori, I. (1976). A cross-cultural study on children's conception of speed and duration: A comparison between Japanese and Thai children. Japanese Psychological Research. Vol 18(3): 105-112.
Casasanto, D. & Boroditsky, L. (in preparation). Time and language.
3. Writing direction
Tversky, B., Kugelmass, S., Winter, A. (1991). Cross-cultural and developmental trends in graphic productions. Cognitive-Psychology. Vol 23(4): 515-557
Morikawa, K, McBeath, M. (1992). Lateral motion bias associated with reading direction. Vision Research. Vol 32(6): 1137-1141.
Material Kind/Object Kind
Imai, M. and Mazuko, R. (in press). Re-evaluation of linguistic relativity: Language-specific categories and the role of universal ontological knowledge in the construal of individuals.
Lucy, J. (1992) Grammatical cagtegories and cognition: A case study of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. (pages 72-84).
Colunga, E. and Smith, L.B. (2000). Learning to learn words: A cross-linguistic study of the shape and material biases. Poster presented at the BU Language Acquisition Conference.
Yoshida, H. and Smith, L. B. (in press). Shifting Ontological Boundaries: How Japanese- and English Speaking Children Generalize Names for Animals and Artifacts.
Gender
Sera, M., Berge, C., & del Castillo, J. (1994) Grammatical and conceptual forces in the attribution of gender by English and Spanish speakers. Cognitive Development, 9, 3, 261-292.
Guiora, A. (1983). Language and concept formation: A cross-lingual analysis. Behavior Science Research. Vol 18(3): 228-256.
Foundalis, H. (2002). Evolution of gender in Indo-European languages. Proceedings of the 24th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Mulford, R. (1985). Comprehension of Icelandic pronoun gender: Semantic versus formal factors. Journal-of-Child-Language, 12(2): 443-453.
Perez-Pereira, M. (1991). The acquisition of gender: What Spanish children tell us. Journal-of-Child-Language, 18(3): 571-590.
Space
Li, P. & Gleitman, L. R. (2002). Turning the tables: Language and spatial reasoning. Cognition, 83, 265-294.
Levinson, S. C., Kita, S., Haun, D. B. M., Rasch, B. H. (2002). Returning the tables: Language affects spatial reasoning. Cognition, 84, 155-188.
Shusterman, A. & Spelke, E. unpublished paper on effects of spatial language training on children's navigation.
Events
1. manner/path
Gennari, S., Sloman, S., Malt, B., Fitch,W. (2002). Motion events in language and cognition. Cognition. Vol 83(1): 49-79.
Papafragou, A., Massey, C., Gleitman, L. (2002). Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of motion in language and cognition. Cognition. Vol 84(2): 189-219.
2. tense
Boroditsky, L., Ham, W. & Ramscar, M. (2002). What is universal about event perception? Comparing English and Indonesian speakers. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
3. aspect
Boroditsky, L., & Trusova, Z. (in preparation). Cross-linguistic differences in verb aspect and their effects on thought: Encoding completion in English and Russian.
Number 1
Giaquinto (in press). Mental number lines. In Carruthers, P. (ed). Culture and the Innate Mind.
Mix, K. S., Huttenlocher, J. and Levine, S. C. (1996) Do preschool children recognize auditory-visual correspondences? Child Development, 67, 1592, 1608.
Hermalin, B and O’Conner, N. (1990). Factors and primes: as specific numerical ability. Psychological Medicine, 20, 163-169.
Number 2
1. fMRI studies of exact vs. approximate number representations
Dehaene, S., Spelke, E., Pinel, P., Stanescu, R., & Tsivkin, S. (1999). Sources of mathematical thinking: Behavioral and brain-imaging evidence. Science, 284, 970-974.
Stanescu-Cosson, R., Pinel, P., van de Moortele, P.-F., Le Bihan, D., Cohen, L., & Dehaene, S. (2000). Understanding dissociations in dyscalculia: A brain imaging study of the impact of number size on the cerebral networks for exact and approximate calculation. Brain, 123, 2240-2255.
2. the phonological length effect and arithmetic calculation
Lemer, C. (2000). Chapter from her thesis (in French!) or unpublished manuscript in English: TBA
Gathercole & Baddeley on calculation speed and arithmetic learning by children who speak different languages: TBA.
3. number words in different languages
Miller, K., Major, S.M., Shu, H., & Zhang, H. (2000). Ordinal knowledge: number names and number concepts in Chinese and English. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 129-139.
Reasoning
1. counterfactuals
Lucy, J. (1992). Language diversity and thought: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England. (pages 208-256).
2. bilingualism and cognitive control
Bialystok, E. (1999). Cognitive complexity and attentional control in the bilingual mind. Child Development. Vol 70(3): 636-644.
3. causality
Theory of mind
Lohman, H. and Tomasello, M. (manuscript) The role of language in the development of false belief understanding.
de Villiers, J.G. & Pyers, J. (2002) Complements to Cognition: A longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding. Cognitive Development.
Siegal, M,. Varley, R., Want, S.C. (2001). Mind over grammar: reasoning in aphasia and development. Trends Cogn Sci, 296-301.
Bootstrapping and conceptual change
Smith, C. and Unger, C. (1997) What’s in dots-per-box? Conceptual boot-strapping with stripped-down visual analogs. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6, 143-181.
Gentner, D., Brem, S., Ferguson, R. W., Markman, A. B., Levidow, B. B., Wolff, P., & Forbus, K. D. (1997). Analogical reasoning and conceptual change: A case study of Johannes Kepler. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(1), 3-40.