Anat Ninio
Joseph H. and
Belle R. Braun Professor in Psychology
Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University Jerusalem
Last date updated November 20,
2009
Telephone at
work:
972-2-5883045
FAX: 972-2-5881159
E-mail: msninio@mscc.huji.ac.il
Research interests:
Syntactic development and complexity theory; Communicative functions of speech
and the interactive context of language acquisition; The interface of pragmatic
and syntactic development; Parental cognition and environmental effects
on development.
Publications on
language acquisition in the perspective of Complexity Theory
Selected
publications on syntactic development
Selected publications on language
acquisition in an interactive context
Selected publications on theoretical issues
Selected publications on parental
cognition
New Book:
Ninio, A. (in press). Syntactic
development: Its input and output.
Ninio,
A. (2006). Language
and the learning curve: A new theory of syntactic development.
Reviews:
The Times Higher Education Supplement
IASCL
- Child Language Bulletin
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
Studies
in Second Language Acquisition
Natural Genesis: A Sourcebook for the Worldwide Discovery of a Creative Organic Universe
Warning:
Incorrect statements in the review in First Language
Teaching:
University
of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies
University of Edinburgh, Linguistics and English Language
Universidad
de Navarra, Spain, Psychology of Language
Ninio,
A. and Snow, E. C. (1996). Pragmatic
development.
Reviews:
Papers online:
Ninio, A. (in
press). Review of Routes to language: Studies in honor of
Melissa Bowerman, Edited
by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole. Psychology Press, 2008. First Language.
Ninio, A. (2009, April). Input-output
relations in syntactic development reflected in large corpora. Poster presented at the 2009 Biennial
Meeting of SRCD,
Ninio, A. (2008, September). Self-Organized
Criticality and the properties of English. Paper presented at the
5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2008),
Spharim, G. and Ninio, A. (2008, July).
Aspect is not first: Children do not mistakenly map inherent lexical aspect to
tense morphology. Poster presented at the 11th International Congress for the Study of Child
Language (IASCL), Edinburgh, 2008. [PPT]
Ninio, A. (2008, March). The past was just a moment ago: Past morphology in the speech of young children and their mothers. Poster presented at the XVIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada, March 27-29. [PPT]
Ninio, A. (2007, March). Complex Systems' approach to the development of a
morphological formclass. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March
29 - April 1. [PPT]
Ninio, A. (2006). Kernel
vocabulary and Zipf's Law in maternal input to syntactic development.
In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia
& C. Zaller (eds.), BUCLD 30:
Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development. (pp. 423-431).
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
[PDF
].
Ninio, A. (2005). Syntactic
development: Lessons from complexity theory.
Paper presented at the Eight Annual
Gregynog/Nant Gwrtheyrn Conference on Child Language, 6-8 April, 2006. (Based
on Chapter 5 of Ninio, A. (2006). Language and the Learning Curve: The
acquisition of syntax. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.)
Ninio, A. (2005). Adult-type grammatical relations in children's early
language. In B. Bokus (Ed.),
(2005). Studies in the psychology of child language (pp. 71-83).
Warsaw: Matrix.
Ninio, A. (2005, November). Kernel vocabulary and Zipf's Law in maternal input to
syntactic development. Paper presented at the 30th annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 2005.
Ninio, A. (2005). Accelerated
learning without semantic similarity: indirect objects. Cognitive
Linguistics, 16, 531-556.
Prefinal version; also [PDF ].
Ninio, A. (2005). Testing the role of
semantic similarity in syntactic development. Journal of
Child Language, 32, 35-61.
Ninio, A. (2004). Young children's difficulty with
adjectives modifying nouns. Journal of Child Language,
31, 255-285.
Hershberg, U. and Ninio, A. (2004). Optimal
exemplar learning in cognitive systems. Invited article for a special issue
of Cognitive Systems (ESSCS) on Multidisciplinary Aspects of
Learning, edited by G. Dalenoort & M. Pichat, 6, 181-188. [PDF
].
Ninio,
A. (2003). No verb is an island: Negative
evidence on the Verb Island hypothesis. Psychology of Language
and Communication, 7, 3-21. [PDF
].
Ninio, A. (2003). Analogy and transfer of learning in syntactic development.
Invited article for a special issue of Revue d'Intelligence
Artificielle (RIA): Regards Croisés sur l'Analogie, edited by Karine Duvignau, Olivier Gasquet & Bruno Gaume.
17, 813-821.
Ninio, A. (2001). Pragmatic
keywords and the first combining verbs in children's speech. Invited
article for a special issue on Pragmatic Development, edited by Haydee Marcos. First Language, 21,
433-460. [text]
Ninio, A. (1999). Learning
from examples in syntactic development. Keynote address at the 11th
Australasian Human Development Conference, Sydney University, Sydney,
Australia, July 9, 1999. [text]
Ninio, A. (1999). Model learning in
syntactic development: Intransitive verbs.
[PDF] [postscipt]
or [compressed postscript]
Ninio, A. (1999). Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic
development and the question of prototypical transitivity. Journal
of Child Language, 26, 619- 653. Also [PDF] [postscipt] [compressed
postscript] or [HTML]
Ninio, A. and Snow, C. (1999). The development of
pragmatics: Learning to use language appropriately. Invited
chapter, in T. K. Bhatia & W. C. Ritchie (Eds.), Handbook of language
acquisition (pp. 347-383). New York: Academic Press. Prefinal version.
Ninio, A. (1998). Acquiring a dependency grammar: The
first three stages in the acquisition of multiword combinations in
Hebrew-speaking children. In G. Makiello-Jarza,
J. Kaiser & M. Smolczynska (Eds.), Language
acquisition and developmental psychology.
Ninio, A. (1996). A proposal for the adoption of
dependency grammar as the framework for the study of language acquisition. In G. Ben Shakhar & A. Lieblich (Eds.), Volume in Honor of Shlomo Kugelmass (pp.
85-103). Jerusalem: Magnes.
Ninio, A. (1996, July). Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development.
Paper presented at the Seventh International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ninio, A. (1994). Predicting the order of
acquisition of three-word constructions by the complexity of their dependency
structure. First Language, 14, 119-152.
Ninio, A. (1994, January). Words
with holes: The acquisition of the predicateness
of predicates. Paper presented at the Emory Conference on Cognitive and
Functional Approaches to Grammatical Development, Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Ninio, A. (1993). On the fringes of the system: Children's acquisition of syntactically isolated forms at the onset of speech. First Language, 13, 291-313.
Ninio,
A. (1993). Is early speech situational? An examination
of some current theories about the relation of early utterances to the context.
In D. Messer & G. Turner (Eds.), Critical influences on language
acquisition and development (pp. 23-39).
Ninio, A. and Goren, H. (1993). PICA-100: Parental Interview on 100 Communicative Acts.
Coding manual distributed by the Department of Psychology, The Hebrew
University,
Ninio, A. (1992). The social bases of Cognitive/Functional Grammar:
Commentary on Tomasello, M. (1992), The social bases of language acquisition.
Social Development, 1, 155-158.
Ninio, A. (1992). The relation of children's single word utterances to
single word utterances in the input. Journal of Child Language,
19, 87-110.
Ninio, A. (1991, April). Introduction to the Ninio and Wheeler taxonomy of
verbal communicative acts and to the INCA abridged version. Paper
presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Seattle, Washington, April, 1991.
Ninio, A. (1990). The genome might as well store the entire language in
the environment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13,
746-747.
Ninio, A. (1988). On formal grammatical categories in early
child language. In Y. Levy, I. Schlesinger, & M. D. S. Braine
(Eds.), Categories and processes in language acquisition
(pp. 99-119). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Also [PDF]
Ninio, A. and Snow, C.
(1988). Language acquisition
through language use: The functional sources of children's early utterances.
In Y. Levy, I. Schlesinger, and M. D. S. Braine (Eds.), Categories
and processes in language acquisition (pp. 11-30). Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Ninio, A. (1988). The roots of
narrative: Discussing recent events with very young children. Invited article
for a special issue on Child Language Acquisition, edited by B. G. Blount. Language
Sciences, 10, 35-52. [PDF]
Ninio, A. and Rinott, N. (1988). Fathers'
involvement in the care of their infants and their attributions of cognitive
competence to infants. Child Development, 59, 652-664. [PDF]
Ninio, A. and Wheeler, P.
(1987). A manual for classifying verbal
communicative acts in mother-infant interaction – Revised.
Working Papers in Developmental Psychology, No. 1. Jerusalem: The Martin and
Vivian Levin Center, Hebrew University.
Ninio, A. (1986). The direct mapping of function to form in children's
early language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 15,
559 (Abstract).
Ninio, A. (1985). The meaning of
children's first words: Evidence from the input. Invited article for a
special issue on Pragmatic Aspects of Lexical Acquisition and Development,
edited by J. Streeck. Journal of Pragmatics, 9,
527-546. [PDF]
Ninio, A. and Wheeler, P.
(1984). Functions of speech in mother-infant interaction. In
L. Feagans, G.J. Garvey, & R. Golinkoff (Eds.), The
origins and growth of communication (pp. 196-207). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. [PDF]
Ninio, A. (1983). Joint bookreading as a multiple
vocabulary acquisition device. Developmental Psychology,
19, 445-451. [PDF]
Ninio, A. (1980). Picture-book
reading in mother-infant dyads belonging to two subgroups in
Ninio, A. (1979). The naive
theory of the infant and other maternal attitudes in two subgroups in Israel.
Child Development, 50, 976-980. [PDF]
Ninio,
A. and Bruner, J. (1978). The achievement and antecedents of labelling. Journal of Child Language, 5,
1-15. [PDF]
Ninio, A. and Lieblich,
A. (1976). "The grammar of action":
"Phrase-structure" in children's copying. Child Development,
47, 846-849. [PDF]
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