William E. Merriman

2.1k total citations
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

William E. Merriman is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Merriman has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in William E. Merriman's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Language Development and Disorders (21 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (17 papers). William E. Merriman is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Language Development and Disorders (21 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (17 papers). William E. Merriman collaborates with scholars based in United States. William E. Merriman's co-authors include Laura L. Bowman, Brian MacWhinney, Michael Tomasello, John Dunlosky, Amanda R. Lipko, Lorna Hernandez Jarvis, Vesna Kutlesic, Daniel P. Keating, Paul Scott and Margarita Azmitia and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

In The Last Decade

William E. Merriman

62 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Merriman United States 19 1.3k 358 282 144 133 64 1.4k
Lisa Gershkoff‐Stowe United States 15 931 0.7× 303 0.8× 263 0.9× 91 0.6× 94 0.7× 20 1.1k
D. Geoffrey Hall Canada 23 1.4k 1.1× 327 0.9× 356 1.3× 94 0.7× 176 1.3× 58 1.6k
Amy E. Booth United States 20 1.2k 1.0× 306 0.9× 282 1.0× 199 1.4× 67 0.5× 39 1.5k
Hanako Yoshida United States 17 827 0.6× 412 1.2× 270 1.0× 119 0.8× 50 0.4× 50 1.1k
Roberta Corrigan United States 17 534 0.4× 189 0.5× 145 0.5× 96 0.7× 146 1.1× 38 723
Catharine H. Echols United States 12 846 0.7× 222 0.6× 376 1.3× 152 1.1× 112 0.8× 26 1.0k
George Hollich United States 14 984 0.8× 368 1.0× 283 1.0× 78 0.5× 65 0.5× 32 1.2k
Laura Wagner United States 20 625 0.5× 249 0.7× 309 1.1× 81 0.6× 302 2.3× 63 1.0k
Lynn K. Perry United States 19 729 0.6× 320 0.9× 461 1.6× 138 1.0× 53 0.4× 64 1.2k
Christine L. Stager Canada 8 1.5k 1.2× 359 1.0× 769 2.7× 66 0.5× 54 0.4× 15 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (2015). Young children’s disambiguation across the senses. Cognitive Development. 35. 163–177. 4 indexed citations
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Tomasello, Michael & William E. Merriman. (2014). Verbs of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Information in the Structure of Maternal Speech. 283–304. 2 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (2012). Preschoolers can make highly accurate judgments of learning.. Developmental Psychology. 49(8). 1505–1516. 44 indexed citations
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Lipko, Amanda R., John Dunlosky, & William E. Merriman. (2008). Persistent overconfidence despite practice: The role of task experience in preschoolers’ recall predictions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 103(2). 152–166. 91 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (2005). The Nominal Passover Effect Depends on Addressee Age, Speaker Goal, and Object Similarity. Child Development. 76(6). 1185–1201. 3 indexed citations
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Momen, Nausheen & William E. Merriman. (2002). Two-year-olds' expectation that lexical gaps will be filled. First Language. 22(3). 225–247. 6 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1998). The prevalence and the weakness of an early name mapping preference. Journal of Child Language. 25(1). 121–147. 26 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1996). Young Two-Year-Olds’ Tendency to Map Novel Verbs onto Novel Actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 63(3). 466–498. 17 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1995). How shall a deceptive thing be called?. Journal of Child Language. 22(1). 129–149. 9 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1995). What Can Be Learned from Something's Not Being Named. Child Development. 66(6). 1890–1890. 5 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1995). The effect of hearing similar-sounding words on young 2-year-olds' disambiguation of novel reference.. Developmental Psychology. 31(6). 973–984. 31 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1993). An appearance-function shift in children's object naming. Journal of Child Language. 20(1). 101–118. 34 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1993). Four-Year-Olds′ Disambiguation of Action and Object Word Reference. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 56(3). 412–430. 30 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1991). Are names ever mapped onto preexisting categories?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 120(3). 288–300. 12 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1991). Young Children's Disambiguation of Object Name Reference. Child Development. 62(6). 1288–1288. 54 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E.. (1991). Categorization and naming in children: Problems of induction. Ellen Markman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Pp. 250.. Applied Psycholinguistics. 12(3). 385–392. 5 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., et al.. (1991). Are names ever mapped onto preexisting categories?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 120(3). 288–300. 9 indexed citations
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Merriman, William E., Laura L. Bowman, & Brian MacWhinney. (1989). The Mutual Exclusivity Bias in Children's Word Learning. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 54(3/4). i–i. 316 indexed citations
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Azmitia, Margarita, William E. Merriman, & Marion Perlmutter. (1987). A Life-Span Study of the Interaction of Selectivity and Knowledge in Memory. Child Development. 58(1). 276–276. 6 indexed citations
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Keating, Daniel P., et al.. (1985). Differences in Memory Retrieval: A Construct Validity Investigation. Child Development. 56(1). 138–138. 7 indexed citations

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