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  1. What can language creation tell us about language evolution?

    Article • American Psychologist, December 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  2. Do gestures really facilitate speech production?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, December 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Casasanto, Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  3. Personal narrative as a “breeding ground” for higher-order thinking talk in early parent–child interactions.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Rebecca Frausel, Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow, Susan Levine

  4. Crosslinguistic similarity and variation in the simultaneous morphology of sign languages

    Article • The Linguistic Review, November 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  5. Number gestures predict learning of number words

    Article • Developmental Science, February 2019, Wiley

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  6. Parents’ early book reading to children: Relation to children's later language and literacy outcomes controlling for other parent language input

    Article • Developmental Science, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  7. Occluding the face diminishes the conceptual accessibility of an animate agent

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  8. Taking a Hands-on Approach to Learning

    Article • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  9. The development of iconicity in children’s co-speech gesture and homesign

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow, Miriam Novack

  10. Prosody in a communication system developed without a language model

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  11. Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  12. In search of resilient and fragile properties of language

    Article • Journal of Child Language, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  13. How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign

    Article • Gesture, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  14. The two faces of gesture

    Article • Gesture, December 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  15. The two faces of gesture: Language and thought

    Article • Gesture, January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow

  16. Language and Environment

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, January 1993, John Benjamins

    Professor Susan Goldin-Meadow