Heidi Waterfall

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Heidi Waterfall is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heidi Waterfall has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Heidi Waterfall's work include Language Development and Disorders (14 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Heidi Waterfall is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (14 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Heidi Waterfall collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Israel. Heidi Waterfall's co-authors include Janellen Huttenlocher, Marina Vasilyeva, Jack L. Vevea, Larry V. Hedges, Shimon Edelman, Luca Onnis, Marina J. Vasilyeva, Priya Mariana Shimpi, Perla B. Gámez and Jennifer A. Schwade and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Developmental Psychology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Heidi Waterfall

16 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Sources of variability in children’s language growth 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sources of variability in children’s language growth
    2010 652 citations Janellen Huttenlocher, Heidi Waterfall et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heidi Waterfall United States 12 1.2k 340 333 217 189 16 1.4k
Jill de Villiers United States 22 1.3k 1.1× 318 0.9× 473 1.4× 410 1.9× 208 1.1× 75 1.8k
Judith R. Johnston Canada 26 1.5k 1.3× 274 0.8× 565 1.7× 218 1.0× 271 1.4× 45 2.0k
Mélanie Söderström Canada 20 1.5k 1.3× 232 0.7× 357 1.1× 199 0.9× 165 0.9× 61 1.9k
Elika Bergelson United States 20 1.6k 1.4× 228 0.7× 400 1.2× 142 0.7× 112 0.6× 63 2.0k
Danielle Matthews United Kingdom 20 1.3k 1.1× 164 0.5× 504 1.5× 408 1.9× 133 0.7× 53 1.7k
Lynn S. Snyder United States 13 1.0k 0.9× 177 0.5× 327 1.0× 190 0.9× 178 0.9× 22 1.3k
Erika Hoff‐Ginsberg United States 16 1.8k 1.6× 728 2.1× 267 0.8× 322 1.5× 402 2.1× 25 2.2k
Pamela Rosenthal Rollins United States 17 625 0.5× 179 0.5× 364 1.1× 174 0.8× 240 1.3× 36 1.0k
Beverly A. Goldfield United States 10 911 0.8× 230 0.7× 210 0.6× 128 0.6× 87 0.5× 16 1.1k
Karin Lifter United States 11 694 0.6× 191 0.6× 361 1.1× 238 1.1× 277 1.5× 28 1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heidi Waterfall

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Shimpi, Priya Mariana & Heidi Waterfall. (2019). Spatial Terms: The Acquisition of Multiple Referential and Syntactic Mappings. Frontiers in Communication. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Onnis, Luca, et al.. (2011). Local statistical learning under cross-situational uncertainty.. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 5 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina & Heidi Waterfall. (2011). Beyond syntactic priming: Evidence for activation of alternative syntactic structures. Journal of Child Language. 39(2). 258–283. 29 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Michael H., Heidi Waterfall, Arnon Lotem, et al.. (2010). General cognitive principles for learning structure in time and space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(6). 249–258. 63 indexed citations
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Waterfall, Heidi, et al.. (2010). An empirical generative framework for computational modeling of language acquisition. Journal of Child Language. 37(3). 671–703. 34 indexed citations
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Huttenlocher, Janellen, Heidi Waterfall, Marina Vasilyeva, Jack L. Vevea, & Larry V. Hedges. (2010). Sources of variability in children’s language growth. Cognitive Psychology. 61(4). 343–365. 652 indexed citations breakdown →
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Waterfall, Heidi & Shimon Edelman. (2009). The neglected universals: Learnability constraints and discourse cues. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32(5). 471–472. 2 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2009). Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in bilingual children. Journal of Child Language. 37(5). 1047–1064. 47 indexed citations
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Onnis, Luca, Heidi Waterfall, & Shimon Edelman. (2008). Variation Sets Facilitate Artificial Language Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 6 indexed citations
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Gámez, Perla B., Priya Mariana Shimpi, Heidi Waterfall, & Janellen Huttenlocher. (2008). Priming a perspective in Spanish monolingual children: The use of syntactic alternatives. Journal of Child Language. 36(2). 269–290. 18 indexed citations
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Onnis, Luca, Heidi Waterfall, & Shimon Edelman. (2008). Learn locally, act globally: Learning language from variation set cues. Cognition. 109(3). 423–430. 90 indexed citations
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Waterfall, Heidi, et al.. (2007). Characterizing Motherese: On the Computational Structure of Child-Directed Language. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 30 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Heidi Waterfall, & Janellen Huttenlocher. (2007). Emergence of syntax: commonalities and differences across children. Developmental Science. 11(1). 84–97. 130 indexed citations
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Huttenlocher, Janellen, Marina J. Vasilyeva, Heidi Waterfall, Jack L. Vevea, & Larry V. Hedges. (2007). The varieties of speech to young children.. Developmental Psychology. 43(5). 1062–1083. 214 indexed citations
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Edelman, Shimon & Heidi Waterfall. (2007). Behavioral and computational aspects of language and its acquisition. Physics of Life Reviews. 4(4). 253–277. 26 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Janellen Huttenlocher, & Heidi Waterfall. (2006). Effects of language intervention on syntactic skill levels in preschoolers.. Developmental Psychology. 42(1). 164–174. 98 indexed citations

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