Children's comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. - Melissa Kline; Jesse Snedeker; Laura Schulz (CogSci, 2011)

Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. - Melissa Kline; Paul J. Muentener; Laura Schulz (CogSci, 2013)

2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational-action paradigm. - Melissa Kline; Jesse Snedeker (CogSci, 2015)

Learning to Talk about Events: Grounding Language Acquisition in Intuitive Theories and Event Cognition. - Eva Wittenberg; Melissa Kline; Joshua K. Hartshorne (CogSci, 2016)

Preschoolers' sensitivity to abstract correlations in the properties of sets and functions. - Nicole Coates; Max H. Siegel; Junyi Chu; Melissa Kline; Josh Tenenbaum 001; Laura Schulz (CogSci, 2022)