Selected Publications
Wagner, L., A. Yocom, M. Greene-Havas (in press) Children’s Understanding of Directed Motion Events in an Imitation Choice Task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Wagner, L. (in press) I’ll Never Grow Up: Continuity in Aspectual Representations. Linguistics.
Barner, D., Wagner, L., & Snedeker, J. (2008) Events and the ontology of individuals: Verbs as a source of individuating nouns. Cognition 105, 805 - 832.
Lakusta, L., L. Wagner, K. O’Hearn, B. Landau (2007) Conceptual Foundations of Spatial Language: Evidence for a Goal Bias in Infants. Language Learning and Development 3(3), 1 - 19.
Wagner, L. (2006) Aspectual Bootstrapping in Language Acquisition: Telicity and Transitivity. Language Learning and Development 2(1), 51 - 76.
Wagner, L., E. Kako, E. Amick, E. Carrigan, and K. Liu (2005) Children's Use of Pointing to Anchor Reference during Story-telling. In Brugos, A., M. R. Clark-Cotton, and S. Ha (eds) Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville: Cascadilla Press. 639-650.
Wagner, L. and S. Carey (2005) 12-month-olds Represent Probable Endings of Motion Events. Infancy 7 (1), 73 - 83.
Wagner, L. and S. Carey (2003) Individuation of Objects & Events: A Developmental Study. Cognition 90 (2), 163 - 191.
Wagner, L. (2002) Understanding Completion Entailments in the Absence of Agency Cues. Journal of Child Language 29, 109 - 125.
Kako, E. & L. Wagner (2001) The Semantics of Syntactic Structures. Trends in Cognitive Science, Vol 5 no. 3, 102 - 108.
Wagner, L. (2001) Aspectual Influences on Early Tense Interpretation. Journal of Child Language 28, 661 - 681.