Dedre Gentner

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education

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Nouns and Verbs

Gentner, D. (1982). Why nouns are learned before verbs: Linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning. Language, 2, 301-334.

Gentner, D., & Boroditsky, L. (2001). Individuation, relativity and early word learning. In M. Bowerman & S. Levinson (Eds.), Language acquisition and conceptual development (pp. 215-256). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Gentner, D. (2006). Why verbs are hard to learn. In K. Hirsh-Pasek, & R. Golinkoff, (Eds.) Action meets word: How children learn verbs (pp. 544-564). Oxford University Press.

Gentner, D. (1981). Some interesting differences between nouns and verbs. Cognition and Brain Theory, 4(2), 161-178.

King, D., & Gentner, D. (2022). Verb metaphoric extension under semantic strain. Cognitive Science, 46(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13141

Cifuentes Férez, P., & Gentner, D. (2006) Naming motion events in Spanish and English. Cognitive Linguistics, 17(4), 443-452.

King, D. C, & Gentner, D. (2023). Verb Metaphors are Processed as Analogies. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rd1d809

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