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• Using metaphors as modifiers: childrenʼs production of metaphoric compoundsExperiment 1 was supported by a predoctoral fellowship and a dissertation/thesis grant from the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan and was presented at the 1995 Biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis. I thank Susan Gelman, Marilyn Shatz, Henry Wellman, and Karen Van Hoek for support and encouragement. I am also grateful to the U-M Language Lab, especially Gil Diesendruck, for helpful comments at various stages of the research. The studies presented here could not have been conducted without the assistance of the parents, the staff, and especially the children from the University of Michigan Childrenʼs Center and Center for Working Families, the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, Childrenʼs Playspace, Jack and Jill Preschool, the Ann Arbor YMCA Child Care Center, St Thomas Elementary School, Oak Trails Montessori and Childrenʼs House, the Washtenaw County Jewish Community Center, the U-M Hospitals Child Care Center, the Occidental College Child Development Center, the Childrenʼs Center at Caltech, and the Bʼnai Simcha Preschool. I also thank Stacy Taranto, Leslie Moore, Amanda Filkin and John Kauffman for assistance with data collection and coding and Bill Merriman for suggesting Experiment 2.

  GOTTFRIED, GAIL M.; GOTTFRIED GAIL M.; Occidental College; Occidental College (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Singular or plural? Childrenʼs knowledge of the factors that determine the appropriate form of count nounsWe thank the parents, teachers, and children at the Dartmouth Child Care Center and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical-Center-Day Care Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, and also The Day Care Center Inc. in Norwich, Vermont. This research was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant SBR-9618712.

  FERENZ, KRAG S.; PRASADA, SANDEEP; FERENZ KRAG S.; Dartmouth College; PRASADA SANDEEP; Dartmouth College; (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• When is a “center” not a “center”? When it's “anatomically distributed”: Prospects for a “diffuse REM center” (“generator”)

  Morgane, Peter J.; Morgane Peter J.; Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Mass. 01545 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)