Article

Schafer, G., Williams, T. and Smith, P. (2013) Which words are hard for autistic children to learn? Mind and Language. ISSN 1468-0017 (In Press)

Baker, M., Schafer, G., Alcock, K. J. and Bartlett, S. (2013) A parentally-administered cognitive development assessment for children from 10 to 24 months. Infant Behavior and Development. ISSN 0163-6383 doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.007 (In Press)

Zammit, M. and Schafer, G. (2011) Maternal label and gesture use affects acquisition of specific object names. Journal of Child Language, 38 (1). pp. 201-221. ISSN 0305-0009 doi: 10.1017/S0305000909990328

Mather, E., Schafer, G. and Houston-Price, C. (2011) The impact of novel labels on visual processing during infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (4). pp. 783-805. ISSN 0261-510X doi: 10.1348/2044-835X.002008

Cheng, X., Schafer, G. and Akyurek, E. G. (2010) Name agreement in picture naming: An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 76 (3). pp. 130-141. ISSN 0167-8760 doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.03.003

Schafer, G. (2005) Infants Can Learn Decontextualized Words Before Their First Birthday. Child Development, 76 (1). pp. 87-96. ISSN 0009-3920 doi: DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00831.x

Mills , D. L., Plunkett, K., Prat, C. and Schafer, G. (2005) Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive Development, 20 (1). pp. 19-31. ISSN 0885-2014 doi: DOI:10.1016/j.cogdev.2004.07.001

Tan, S. H. and Schafer, G. (2005) Toddlers' novel word learning: Effects of phonological representation, vocabulary size, and parents' ostensive behaviour. First Language, 25 (2). pp. 131-155. ISSN 0142-7237 doi: DOI:10.1177/0142723705050338

Schafer, G. (2001) Intersensory origins of word comprehension: but what's the mechanism? Developmental Science, 4 (1). pp. 23-26. ISSN 1363-755X

Schafer, G. and Mareschal, D. (2001) Modeling infant speech sound discrimination using simple associative networks. Infancy, 2 (1). pp. 7-28. ISSN 1525-0008 doi: 10.1207/S15327078IN0201_2

Hamilton, A., Plunkett, K. and Schafer, G. (2000) Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory. Journal of Child Language, 27 (3). pp. 689-705. ISSN 0305-0009 doi: 10.1017/S0305000900004414

Schafer, G., Plunkett, K. and Harris, P. L. (1999) What's in a name? Lexical knowledge drives infants' visual preferences in the absence of referential input. Developmental Science, 2 (2). pp. 187-194. ISSN 1363-755X doi: DOI:10.1111/1467-7687.00067

Schafer, G. and Plunkett, K. (1998) Rapid word learning by 15-month-olds under tightly-controlled conditions. Child Development, 69 (2). pp. 309-320. ISSN 0009-3920 doi: DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06190.x

Conference or Workshop Item

Schafer, G. (2005) Are words special? How could we know? In: Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Houston-Price, C., Plunkett, K., Duffy, H., Mather, E. and Schafer, G. (2005) Co-variation as a cue to words' meanings. In: International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.

Baker, M.A.M. and Schafer, G. (2005) Cognitive abilities and contrastive responding [poster]. In: Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Mather, E. and Schafer, G. (2005) Familiarity and novelty preferences for visual stimuli in the second year of life: initial findings and new directions [poster]. In: Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

O'Neill, M. and Schafer, G. (2005) The importance of maternal speech and gesture during labelling contexts to subsequent word learning [poster]. In: Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.