Publications
In Press
Mervis, C. B. (in press). Language development in Williams syndrome. In J. Burack, R. Hodapp, & E. Zigler (Eds.) Handbook of mental retardation and development (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
2010
John, A. E., & Mervis, C. B. (2010). Comprehension of the communicative intent behind pointing and gazing gestures by young children with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 950-960.
Edgin, J. O., Mervis, C. B., & Pennington, B. F. (2010). Neuropsychological components of intellectual disability: the contributions of immediate, working and associative memory. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 406-417.
Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2010). Cognitive and behavioral characteristics of children with Williams syndrome: Implications for intervention approaches. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 229-248.
John, A. E., & Mervis, C. B. (2010). Sensory modulation impairments in children with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 266-276.
Marler, J. A., Sitcovsky, J. L., Mervis, C. B., Kistler, D. J., & Wightman, F. L. (2010). Auditory function and hearing loss in children and adults with Williams syndrome: Cochlear impairment in individuals with otherwise normal hearing. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 249-265.
Woodruff-Borden, J., Kistler, D. J., Henderson, D. R., Crawford, N. A., & Mervis, C. B. (2010). Longitudinal course of anxiety in children and adolescents with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 277-290.
Hobart, H. H., Morris, C. A., Mervis, C. B., Pani, A. M., Kistler, D. J., Rios, C. M., Kimberley, K. W., Gregg, R. G., & Bray-Ward, P. (2010). Inversion of the Williams syndrome region is a common polymorphism found more frequently in parents of children with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 220-228.
Morris, C. A., Pani, A. M., Mervis, C. B., Rios, C. M., Kistler, D. J., & Gregg, R. G. (2010). Alpha 1 antitrypsin heterozygosity is associated with joint dislocation and scoliosis in Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 299-306.
Farwig, K., Harmon, A. G., Fontana, K. M., Mervis, C. B., & Morris, C. A. (2010). Genetic counseling of adults with Williams syndrome: A first study. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C, 154C, 307-315.
Muñoz, K. E., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Hariri, A. R., Mervis, C. B., Venkata, S. M., Morris, C. A., & Berman, K. F. (2010). Abnormalities in neural processing of emotional stimuli in Williams syndrome vary according to social vs. non-social content. NeuroImage, 50, 340-346.
Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2010). Williams syndrome: Psychological characteristics. In B. Shapiro & P. Accardo (Eds.), Neurogenetic syndromes: Behavioral issues and their treatment (pp. 81-98). Baltimore: MD: Brookes.
Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2010). Intellectual disability syndromes. In K. O. Yeates, M. D. Ris, H. G. Taylor, & B. F. Pennington (Eds.). Pediatric neuropsychology: Research, theory, and practice, 2nd ed. (pp. 447-470). New York, NY: Guilford.2009
John, A. E., Rowe, M. L., & Mervis, C. B. (2009). Referential communication skills of children with Williams syndrome: Understanding when messages are not adequate. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 114, 85-99.
Olsen, R. K., Kippenhan, J. S., Japee, S., Kohn, P., Mervis, C. B., Saad, Z. S., Morris, C. A., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Berman, K. F. (2009). Retinotopically-defined primary visual cortex in Williams syndrome. Brain, 132, 635-644.
Leyfer, O., Woodruff-Borden, J., & Mervis, C. B. (2009). Anxiety disorders in children with Williams syndrome, their mothers, and their siblings: Implications for the etiology of anxiety disorders. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 1, 4-14.
Mervis, C. B. (2009). Language and literacy development of children with Williams syndrome. Topics in Language Disorders, 29, 149-169.
Klein-Tasman, B. P., Phillips, K. D., Lord, C. E., Mervis, C. B., & Gallo, F. (2009). Overlap with the autism spectrum in young children with Williams syndrome. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 30, 289-299.
2008
Mervis, C. B., & John, A. E. (2008). Vocabulary abilities of children with Williams syndrome: Strengths, weaknesses, and relation to visuospatial construction ability. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 967-982.
Tam, E., Young, E. J., Morris, C. A., Marshall, C. R., Loo, W., Scherer, S. W., Mervis, C. B., & Osborne, L. R. (2008). The common inversion of the Williams-Beuren syndrome region at 7q11.23 does not cause clinical symptoms. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 146A, 1797-1806.
Marshall, C. R., Young E. J., Pani, A. M., Freckmann, M.-L., Lacassie, Y., Howald, C., Fitzgerald, K. K., Peippo, M., Morris, C. A., Shane K., Priolo, M., Morimoto, M., Kondo, I., Manguoglu, E., Merker-Karauzum, S., Edery, P., Hobart, H. H., Mervis, C. B., Zuffardi, O., Reymond, A., Kaplan, P., Tassabehji, M., Gregg, R. G., Scherer, S. W., & Osborne, L. R. (2008). Infantile spasms is associated with deletion of the MAGI2 gene on chromosome 7q11.23-7q21.11. American Journal of Human Genetics, 83, 106-111.
Sarpal, D., Buchsbaum, B. R., Kohn, P. D., Kippenhan, J. S., Mervis, C. B., Morris, C. A., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Berman, K. F. (2008). A genetic model for understanding higher-order visual processing: Functional interactions of the ventral visual stream in Williams syndrome. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2402-2409.
2007
Klein-Tasman, B. P., Mervis, C. B., Lord, C., & Phillips, K. D. (2007). Socio-communicative deficits in young children with Williams syndrome: Performance on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Child Neuropsychology, 13, 444-467.
Marenco, S., Siuta, M. A., Kippenhan, J. S., Grodofsky, S., Chang, W-L., Kohn, P., Mervis, C. B., Morris, C. A., Weinberger, D. R., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Pierpaoli, C., & Berman, K. F. (2007). Genetic contributions to white matter architecture revealed by diffusion tensor imaging in Williams syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 15117-15122.
Osborne, L. R., & Mervis, C. B. (2007). Rearrangements of the Williams-Beuren syndrome locus: molecular basis and implications for speech and language development. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, 9 (15), 1-16.
Mervis, C. B., & Morris, C. A. (2007). Williams syndrome. In M. M. M. Mazzocco & J. L. Ross, Neurogenetic developmental disorders: Variation of manifestation in childhood (pp. 199-262). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mervis, C. B., & Becerra, A. M. (2007). Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 13, 3-15.
2006
Leyfer, O. T., Woodruff-Borden, J., Klein-Tasman, B. P., Fricke, J. S., & Mervis, C. B. (2006). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in 4 – 16-year-olds with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B, 141B, 615-622.
Rowe, M. L., & Mervis, C. B. (2006). Working memory in Williams syndrome. In T. P. Alloway & S. E. Gathercole (Eds.), Working memory and neurodevelopmental conditions (pp. 267-293). Hove, England: Psychology Press.
Mehl, R. C., O’Brien, L. M., Jones, J. H., Dreisbach, J. K., Mervis, C. B., & Gozal, D. (2006). Correlates of sleep and pediatric bipolar disorder. Sleep, 29, 193-197.
Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mervis, C. B., & Berman, K. F. (2006). Neural mechanisms in Williams syndrome: a unique window to genetic influences on cognition and behavior. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 7, 380-393.
Mervis, C. B. (2006). Language abilities in Williams-Beuren syndrome. In C. A. Morris, H. M. Lenhoff, & P. P. Wang (Eds.), Williams-Beuren syndrome: Research, evaluation, and treatment (pp. 159-206). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2005
Somerville, M. J.*, Mervis, C. B.*, Young, E. J., Seo, E.-J., del Campo, M., Bamforth, S., Peregrine, E., Lilley, M., Pérez-Jurado, L., Morris, C. A., Scherer, S. W., & Osborne, L. R. (2005). Severe expressive language delay related to duplication of the Williams-Beuren locus. New England Journal of Medicine, 353, 1694-1701. (*: equal contributions)
Kippenhan, J. S., Olsen, R. K., Mervis, C. B., Morris, C. A., Kohn, P., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Genetic contributions to human gyrification: Sulcal morphometry in Williams syndrome. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 7840-7846.
Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Hariri, A. R., Munoz, K. E., Mervis, C. B., Mattay, V. S., Morris, C. A., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 991-993.
Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mervis, C. B., Sarpal, D., Koch, P., Steele, S., Kohn, P., Marenco, S., Morris, C. A., Das, S., Kippenhan, J. S., Mattay, V. S., Weinberger, D. R., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Functional, structural, and metabolic abnormalities of the hippocampal formation in Williams syndrome. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 115, 1888-1895.
Mervis, C. B., Becerra, A. M., Rowe, M. L., Hersh, J. H., & Morris, C. A. (2005). Intellectual abilities and adaptive behavior of children and adolescents with Kabuki syndrome: A preliminary study. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 132A, 248-255.
Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (2005). Designing measures for profiling and genotype/phenotype studies of individuals with genetic syndromes or developmental languagedisorders. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 41-64.
2004
Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Kohn, P., Mervis, C. B., Kippenhan, J. S., Olsen, R., Morris, C. A., & Berman, K. F. (2004). Neural basis of genetically determined visuospatial construction deficit in Williams syndrome. Neuron, 43, 623-631.
Mervis, C. B., Robinson, B. F., Rowe, M. L., Becerra, A. M., & Klein-Tasman, B. P. (2004). Relations between language and cognition in Williams syndrome. In S. Bartke & J.
Siegmüller (Eds.), Williams syndrome across languages (pp. 63-92). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing.
Mervis, C. B. (2004). Cross-etiology comparisons of cognitive and language development. In M. L. Rice & S. F. Warren (Eds.), Developmental language disorders: From phenotypes to etiologies (pp. 153-186). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Johnson, K. E., Scott, P., & Mervis, C. B. (2004). What are theories for? Concept use throughout the continuum of dinosaur expertise. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 87, 171-200.
Mervis, C.B., & Klein-Tasman, B.P. (2004). Methodological issues in group-matching designs: Alpha levels for control variable comparisons and measurement characteristics of control and target variables. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 7-17. (special issue on group-design methods)
O’Brien, L. M., Mervis, C. B., Holbrook, C. R., Bruner, J. L., Klaus, C. J., Rutherford, J., Raffield, T. J., & Gozal, D. (2004). Neurobehavioral implications of habitual snoring in
children. Pediatrics, 144, 44-49.
O'Brien, L. M., Mervis, C. B., Holbrook, C. R., Bruner, J. L., Smith, N. H., McNally, N., McClimment, M. C., & Gozal, D. (2004). Neurobehavioral correlates of sleep-disordered breathing in children. Journal of Sleep Research, 13, 165-172.
2003
O’Brien, L. M., Holbrook C. R., Mervis, C. B., Klaus, C. J., Bruner, J., Raffield, T. J., Rutherford, J., Mehl, R. C., Wang, M., Tuell, A., Hume, B. C., & Gozal, D. (2003). Sleep and
neurobehavioral characteristics of 5- to 7-year-old children with parentally reported symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Pediatrics, 111, 554-563.
Morris, C. A., Mervis, C. A., Hobart, H. H., Gregg, R. G., Bertrand, J., Ensing, G. J., Sommer, A., Moore, C. A., Hopkin, R. J., Spallone, P., Keating, M. T., Osborne, L., Kimberley, K. W., & Stock, A. D. (2003). GTF2I hemizygosity implicated in mental retardation in Williams syndrome: Genotype-phenotype analysis of 5 families with deletions in the Williams syndrome region. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 123A, 45-59.
Mervis, C. B., Robinson, B. F., Rowe, M. L., Becerra, A. M., & Klein-Tasman, B. P. (2003). Language abilities of people with Williams syndrome. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation (vol. 27, pp. 35-81). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Stock, A. D., Spallone, P. A., Dennis, T. R., Netski, D., Morris, C. A., Mervis, C. B., & Hobart, H. H. (2003). Heat shock protein 27 gene: Chromosomal and molecular location and relationship to Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 120A, 320-325.
Mervis, C. B., Pani, J. R., & Pani, A. M. (2003). Transaction of child cognitive-linguistic abilities and adult input in the acquisition of lexical categories at the basic and subordinate levels. In D. H. Rakison & L. M. Oakes (Eds.), Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion (pp. 242-274). New York: Oxford University Press.
Mervis, C. B., & Becerra, A. M. (2003). Lexical development and intervention. In J. A. Rondal & S. Buckley (Eds.), Speech and language intervention in Down syndrome (pp. 63-85). London: Whurr.
Klein-Tasman, B. P., & Mervis, C. B. (2003). Distinctive personality characteristics of 8-, 9-, and 10-year-old children with Williams syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 23, 271-292.
Mervis, C. B., Morris, C. A., Klein-Tasman, B. P., Bertrand, J., Kwitny, S., Appelbaum, L. G., & Rice, C. E. (2003). Attentional characteristics of infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome during triadic interactions. Developmental Neuropsychology, 23, 245-270.
Robinson, B. F., Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. W. (2003). The roles of verbal short-term memory and working memory in the acquisition of grammar by children with Williams syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 23, 13-32.
Mervis, C. B. (2003). Williams syndrome: 15 years of psychological research. Developmental Neuropsychology, 23, 1-12. (Introduction to special issue on Williams syndrome)
Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (2003). Methodological issues in cross-group comparisons of language and/or cognitive development. In Y. Levy & J. Schaeffer (Eds.), Language competence across populations: Toward a definition of SLI (pp. 233-258). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2001
Mervis, C. B. (2001). Mental retardation, cognitive aspects. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds. in Chief), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, vol. 21 Cognitive psychology and cognitive science, W. Kintsch, Ed. (pp. 9700-9704). Oxford: Pergamon.
Mervis, C. B., Klein-Tasman, B. P., & Mastin, M. E. (2001). Adaptive behavior of 4- through 8-year-old children with Williams syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 106, 82-93. (special issue on Behavioral Phenotypes).
2000
Mervis, C. B., Robinson, B. F., Bertrand, J., Morris, C. A., Klein-Tasman, B. P., & Armstrong, S. C. (2000). The Williams Syndrome Cognitive Profile. Brain and Cognition, 44, 604-628.
Morris, C. A., & Mervis, C. B. (2000). Williams syndrome and related disorders. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 1, 461-484.
Mervis, C. B., & Klein-Tasman, B. P. (2000). Williams syndrome: Cognition, personality, and adaptive behavior. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 6, 148-158.
Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (2000). Expressive vocabulary of toddlers with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome: A comparison. Developmental Neuropsychology, 17, 111-126.
1995-1999
Pani, J. R., Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (1999). Global spatial organization by individuals with Williams syndrome. Psychological Science, 10, 453-458.
Mervis, C. B., Robinson, B. F., & Pani, J. R. (1999). Visuospatial construction. American Journal of Human Genetics, 65, 1222-1229.
Klein, B. P., & Mervis, C. B. (1999). Cognitive strengths and weaknesses of 9- and 10-year-olds with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 16, 177-196.
Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (1999). Mental retardation. In R. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of cognitive sciences (pp. 529-531). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mervis, C. B., & Robinson, B. F. (1999). Methodological issues in cross-syndrome comparisons: Matching procedures, sensitivity (Se), and specificity (Sp). Commentary on M. Sigman & E. Ruskin, Continuity and change in the social competence of children with autism, Down syndrome, and developmental delays. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 64, Serial no. 256, pp. 115-130.
Morris, C. A., & Mervis, C. B. (1999). Williams syndrome. In S. Goldstein & C. Reynolds (Eds.), Handbook of neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders in children (pp. 555-590). New York: Guilford.
Mervis, C. B. (1999). The Williams syndrome cognitive profile: Strengths, weaknesses, and interrelations among auditory short term memory, language, and visuospatial constructive cognition. In E. Winograd, R. Fivush, & W. Hirst (Eds.), Ecological approaches to cognition: Essays in honor of Ulric Neisser (pp. 193-227). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Robinson, B. F., & Mervis, C. B. (1999). Comparing productive vocabulary measures from the CDI and a systematic diary study. Journal of Child Language, 26, 177-185.
Mervis, C. B., Morris, C. A., Bertrand, J., & Robinson, B. F. (1999). Williams syndrome: Findings from an integrated program of research. In H. Tager-Flusberg (Ed.),
Neurodevelopmental disorders (pp.65-110). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Johnson, K. E., & Mervis, C. B. (1998). Impact of intuitive theories on feature recruitment throughout the continuum of expertise. Memory & Cognition, 26, 382-401.
Robinson, B. F., & Mervis, C. B. (1998). Modeling lexical and grammatical acquisition using an extension of case study methodology. Developmental Psychology, 34, 363-375.
Johnson, K. E., & Mervis, C. B. (1997). Effects of varying levels of expertise on the basic level of categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 248-277.
Johnson, K. E., Scott, P., & Mervis, C. B. (1997). Development of children’s understanding of basic-superordinate inclusion relations. Developmental Psychology, 33, 745-763.
Johnson, K. E., & Mervis, C. B. (1997). First steps in the emergence of verbal humor: A case study. Infant Behavior & Development, 20, 187-196.
Mervis, C. B., & Bertrand, J. (1997). Developmental relations between cognition and language: Evidence from Williams syndrome. In L. B. Adamson & M. A. Romski (Eds.),
Communication and language acquisition: Discoveries from atypical development (pp. 75-106). New York: Brookes.
Bertrand, J., Mervis, C. B., & Eisenberg, J. D. (1997). Drawing by children with Williams syndrome: A developmental perspective. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13, 41-67.
Bertrand, J., & Mervis, C. B. (1996). Longitudinal analysis of drawings by children with Williams syndrome: Preliminary Results. Visual Arts Research, 22, 19-34 (special issue on Drawings of Children with Disabilities).
Frangiskakis, J. M., Ewart, A. K., Morris, C. A., Mervis, C. B., Bertrand, J., Robinson, B. F., Klein, B. P., Ensing, G. J., Everett, L. A., Green, E. D., Proschel, C., Gutowski, N., Noble, M., Atkinson, D. L., Odelberg, S. J., & Keating, M. T. (1996). LIM-Kinase1 hemizygosity implicated in impaired visuospatial constructive cognition. Cell, 86, 59-69.
Robinson, B. F., & Mervis, C. B., (1996). Extrapolated raw scores for the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Second Edition). American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100, 666-671.
Romski, M. A., Sevcik, R. A., Robinson, B. F., Mervis, C. B., & Bertrand, J. (1996). Mapping the meanings of novel visual symbols by youth with moderate or severe mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100, 391-402.
Mervis, C. B., & Bertrand, J. (1995). Early lexical acquisition and the vocabulary spurt: a response to Goldfield & Reznick. Journal of Child Language , 22, 461-468.
Scott, P. Mervis, C. B., Bertrand, J., Klein, B. P., Armstrong, S. C., & Ford, A. L. (1995). Semantic organization and word fluency in 9- and 10-year-old children with Williams syndrome. Genetic Counseling, 6, 172-173.
Bertrand, J., Mervis, C. B., Armstrong, S. C., & Hutchins, S. S. (1995). Metamemory in adults with Williams syndrome. Genetic Counseling, 6, 174-175.
Bertrand, J., Mervis, C. B., Armstrong, S. C., & Ayres, J. (1995). Figurative language and cognitive abilities of adults with Williams syndrome. Genetic Counseling, 6, 135-137.
Mervis, C. B. , Bertrand, J., Robinson, B. F., Klein, B. P., Armstrong, S. C., Baker, D. E., Turner, N. D., & Reinberg, J. (1995). Early language development of children with Williams syndrome. Genetic Counseling, 6, 170-172.
Mervis, C. B. & Bertrand, J. (1995). Early lexical development of children with Williams syndrome. Genetic Counseling, 6,134-135.
Mervis, C. B., & Bertrand, J. (1995). Acquisition of the Novel Name -- Nameless Category (N3C) principle by children who have Down syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100, 231-243.
Mervis, C. B., Bertrand, J. & Pani, J. R. (1995). Transaction of cognitive-linguistic abilities and adult input: Acquisition of colour terms and colour-based subordinate object categories. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13, 285-302.
Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Mervis, C. B., Frawley, W., & Parillo, M. (1995). Lexical principles can be extended to the acquisition of verbs. In M. Tomasello & W. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things: Young children's acquisition of verbs (pp. 185-221). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
1990-1994
Tomasello. M., & Mervis, C. B. (1994). The instrument is great, but measuring comprehension is still a problem. Commentary on Fenson et al., Variability in early communicative development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59, Serial no. 242, pp. 174-179.
Mervis, C. B. & Bertrand, J. (1994). Acquisition of the Novel Name - Nameless Category (N3C) principle. Child Development, 65, 1646-1662.
Mervis, C. B., Golinkoff, R. M., & Bertrand, J. (1994). Two-year-olds readily learn multiple labels for the same basic level category. Child Development, 65, 1163-1177.
Johnson, K. E. & Mervis, C. B. (1994). Microgenetic analysis of first steps in children's acquisition of expertise on shorebirds. Developmental Psychology, 30, 418-435.
Golinkoff, R. M., Mervis, C. B., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1994). Early object labels: the case for a developmental lexical principles framework. Journal of Child Language, 21, 125-155.
Mervis, C. B., Johnson, K. E., & Mervis C. A., (1994). Acquisition of subordinate categories by three-year olds: The roles of attribute salience, linguistic input, and child characteristics. Cognitive Development, 9, 211-234.
Mervis, C. B., Johnson, K. E., & Scott, P. (1993). Perceptual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, and expertise: Comment on Jones and Smith. Cognitive Development, 8, 149-155.
Mervis, C. B., & Bertrand, J. (1993). Acquisition of early object labels: The roles of operating principles and input. In A. Kaiser & D.B. Gray, Enhancing children's communication: Research foundations for intervention (pp. 287-316). Baltimore: Brookes.
Johnson, K. E., Mervis, C. B., & Boster, J. S. (1992). Developmental changes within the structure of the mammal domain. Developmental Psychology, 28, 74-83.
Mervis, C. B., Mervis, C. A., Johnson, K. E., & Bertrand, J. (1992). Studying early lexical development: The value of the systematic diary method. In C. Rovee-Collier & L. Lipsitt (Eds.), Advances in infancy research (vol. 7, pp. 291-378). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Mervis, C. B., & Johnson, K. E. (1991). Acquisition of the plural morpheme: A case study. Developmental Psychology, 27, 222-235.
Cardoso-Martins, C., & Mervis, C. B. (1990). Maternal use of substantive deixis and nouns to children with Down syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 94, 633-637.
Mervis, C. B. (1990). Operating principles, input, and early lexical development. Comunicazioni Scientifiche di Psicologia Generale (special issue on Categorization and Recognition), 4, 7-25.
Mervis, C. B. (1990). Early conceptual development by children with Down syndrome. In D. Cicchetti & M. Beeghly (Eds.), Children with Down syndrome: The developmental perspective (pp. 252-301). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1985-1989
Chapman, K. L., & Mervis, C. B. (1989). Patterns of object-name extensions in production. Journal of Child Language, 16, 561-571.
Myers, N. A., & Mervis, C. B. (1989). A case study in early event representation development. Cognitive Development, 4, 31-48.
Mervis, C. B. (1988). Early lexical development: Theory and application. In L. Nadel (Ed.), The psychobiology of Down syndrome (pp. 101-145). Cambridge, MA: Bradford/MIT.
Banigan, R. L., & Mervis, C. B. (1988). Role of adult input in young children's category evolution: II. An experimental study. Journal of Child Language, 15, 493-504.
Mervis, C. B., & Mervis, C. A. (1988). Role of adult input in young children's category evolution: I. An observational study. Journal of Child Language, 15, 257-272.
Mervis, C. B. (1987). Child-basic object categories and early lexical development. In U. Neisser (Ed.), Concepts and conceptual development: Ecological and intellectual factors in categorization (pp. 201-233). New York: Cambridge University Press. [Excerpted in R.H. Wozniak (Ed.), 1993, Worlds of Childhood. New York: Harper Collins]
Mervis, C. B. (1986). Operating principles and personal theories: An outline of their roles in early lexical development. In C. E. Clifton (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting (pp. 734-740). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Beeghly, M., Bretherton, I., & Mervis, C. B. (1986). Mother's internal states language to toddlers: The socialization of psychological understanding. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 247-261.
Hupp, S. C., Mervis, C. B., Able, H., & Conroy, M. (1986). Effect of receptive and expressive training on generalized learning by severely retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90, 558-565.
Chapman, K. L., Leonard, L. B., & Mervis, C. B. (1986). The effects of feedback on young children's inappropriate word usage. Journal of Child Language, 13, 101-117.
Mervis, C. B. (1985). On the existence of prelinguistic categories: A case study. Journal of Infant Behavior and Development, 8, 293-300.
Cardoso-Martins, C., Mervis, C. B., & Mervis, C. A. (1985). Early vocabulary acquisition by children with Down syndrome. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90, 177-184.
Cardoso-Martins, C., & Mervis, C. B. (1985). Maternal speech to prelinguistic children with Down syndrome. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 89, 451-458.
1980-1984
Koenig, M. A., & Mervis, C. B. (1984). The interactive basis of severely handicapped and normal children's initial language development. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 27, 534-542.
Mervis, C. B., & Cardoso-Martins, C. (1984). Transition from sensorimotor stage 5 to stage 6 by Down syndrome children: A response to Gibson. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 89, 99-102.
Mervis, C. B. (1984). Early lexical development: The contributions of mother and child. In C. Sophian (Ed.), Origins of cognitive skills (pp. 339-370). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mervis, C. B., & Greco, C. (1984). The role of parts in early conceptual development: Comment on Tversky and Hemmenway. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113, 194-197.
Roth, E. M., & Mervis, C. B. (1983). Fuzzy set theory and class inclusion relations in semantic categories. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 509-525.
Mervis, C. B. (1983). Acquisition of a lexicon. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 8, 210-236.
Mervis, C. B., & Canada, K. (1983). On the existence of competence errors in early comprehension: A reply to Fremgen & Fay and Chapman & Thomson. Journal of Child
Language, 10, 431-440.
Hupp, S. C., & Mervis, C. B. (1982). Acquisition of basic object categories by severely handicapped children. Child Development, 53, 760-767.
Mervis, C. B., & Mervis, C. A. (1982). Leopards are kitty-cats: Object labeling by mothers for their 13 month olds. Child Development, 53, 267-273.
Mervis, C. B., & Crisafi, M. A. (1982). Order of acquisition of subordinate, basic, and superordinate categories. Child development, 53, 258-266. [ Reprinted in K. Richardson & S. Sheldon (Eds.), Cognitive development to adolescence: An Open University reader. London: Erlbaum (1987).]
Hupp, S. C., & Mervis, C. B. (1981). Acquisition of generalized concepts by severely handicapped students. Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped, 6, 14-21.
Mervis, C. B., & Roth, E. M. (1981). The internal structure of basic and nonbasic color categories. Language, 57, 384-405.
Mervis, C. B., & Rosch, E. (1981). Categorization of natural objects. Annual Review of Psychology, 32, 89-115.
Mervis, C. B. (1980). Category structure and the development of categorization. In R. Spiro, B. C. Bruce, & W. F. Brewer (Eds.), Theoretical issues in reading comprehension (pp. 279-307). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mervis, C. B., & Pani, J. R. (1980). The acquisition of basic object categories. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 496-522.
1970s
Judd, S. A., & Mervis, C. B. (1979). Learning to solve class-inclusion problems: The roles of quantification and recognition of a contradiction. Child Development, 50, 163-169.
Rosch, E., & Mervis, C. B. (1977). Children's sorting: A reinterpretation based on the nature of abstraction in natural categories. In R. C. Smart & M. S. Smart (Eds.), Readings in child development and relationships (2nd ed., pp. 140-148). New York: Macmillan.
Rosch, E., Mervis, C. B., Gray, W. D., Johnson, D. M., & Boyes-Braem, P. (1976). Basic objects in natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 8, 382-439.
Mervis, C. B., Catlin, J., & Rosch, E. (1976). Relationships among goodness-of-example, category norms, and word frequency. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 7, 283-284.
Rosch, E., & Mervis, C. B. (1975). Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 573-605.
Mervis, C. B., Catlin, J., & Rosch, E. (1975). Development of the structure of color categories. Developmental Psychology, 11, 54-60.
