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Douglas A. Behrend
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University Professor
Also affiliated: University of Minnesota (1988); University of Michigan (1989–1990)
17 h-index
32 pubs
1,250 cited
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Douglas A. Behrend's research focuses on child language development and cognitive processes. His work has investigated how children learn new words, particularly from speakers perceived as reliable or unreliable, and how they develop concepts for verbs and their use in labeling events. Behrend has also explored children's knowledge of semantic categories, such as animates and inanimates, and their understanding of color terms. Further research has examined children's private speech in relation to task difficulty and social context, as well as social preferences based on language background in preschool children. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 17, with 35 total publications and 1,250 citations. Behrend has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Lisa M. Bowers, Robert Beitle, and Christina M. Barnes.
Metrics
- h-index: 17
- Publications: 32
- Citations: 1,250
Positions
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University Professor publications 1990–2026University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Institution web page
Selected Publications
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Thinking caps and tin foil hats: Relations between intellectual humility and conspiracy beliefs in competitive quizzers and non-quizzers (2026)
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On a need‐to‐know basis: Young children distinguish conventional and privileged information (2024)
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The role of sharing and information type in children’s categorization of privileged and conventional information (2024)
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Child word learning in song and speech (2023)
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More than just accent? The role of dialect words in children’s language-based social judgments (2020)
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Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning (2019)
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Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers (2016)
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Clarifying the role of joint attention in early word learning (2011)
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Learning words from reliable and unreliable speakers (2008)
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Word learning in the absence of a speaker (2007)
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Two-year-olds differentially disambiguate novel words and facts (2007)
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Beyond fast mapping: Young children's extensions of novel words and novel facts. (2001)
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Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: evidence for early competence (1996)
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Morphological cues to verb meaning: verb inflections and the initial mapping of verb meanings (1995)
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M. Tomasello, First verbs: a case study of early grammatical development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. ix + 373. (1994)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Jason Scofield
5 shared publications
- Learning words from reliable and unreliable speakers
- Beyond fast mapping: Young children's extensions of novel words and novel facts.
- Two-year-olds differentially disambiguate novel words and facts
- Clarifying the role of joint attention in early word learning
- Word learning in the absence of a speaker
Helana Girgis
Stockton University (US)
3 shared publications
- Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers
- On a need‐to‐know basis: Young children distinguish conventional and privileged information
- The role of sharing and information type in children’s categorization of privileged and conventional information
Weiyi Ma
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
2 shared publications
- Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning
- Child word learning in song and speech
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Princeton University (US)
2 shared publications
- Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning
- Child word learning in song and speech
William Forde Thompson
Bond University (AU)
2 shared publications
- Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning
- Child word learning in song and speech
Amie Williams
University of Alabama (US)
1 shared publication
- Word learning in the absence of a speaker
Marilyn Shatz
University of Michigan (US)
1 shared publication
- Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: evidence for early competence
Susan A. Gelman
University of Michigan (US)
1 shared publication
- Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: evidence for early competence
Karen S. Ebeling
Marygrove College (US)
1 shared publication
- Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: evidence for early competence
Erica Kleinknecht
1 shared publication
- Beyond fast mapping: Young children's extensions of novel words and novel facts.
L. Lynn Harris
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
1 shared publication
In database
- Morphological cues to verb meaning: verb inflections and the initial mapping of verb meanings
Kelly B. Cartwright
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
1 shared publication
In database
- Morphological cues to verb meaning: verb inflections and the initial mapping of verb meanings
Krista Byers‐Heinlein
Concordia University (CA)
1 shared publication
- Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers
Lyakout Mohamed Said
Concordia University (CA)
1 shared publication
- Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers
Diane Poulin‐Dubois
Concordia University (CA)
1 shared publication
- Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers
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