Anat Ninio
Joseph H. and
Belle R. Braun Professor in Psychology
Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University Jerusalem
Last date updated December 1,
2011
Telephone at
work:
972-2-5883045
FAX: 972-2-5881159
E-mail: msninio at 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. (2011). Syntactic
development, its input and output.
Endorsements: Albert-László
Barabási, Patricia J. Brooks, Aliyah Morgenstein, Keith
Nelson, Twila Tardif
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
Endorsements: Anna Stetsenko, Ruth A. Berman, Patricia J. Brooks, Liu Haitao, Erika
Hoff, Elena Lieven, Katherine Nelson, Julian Pine, Caroline Rowland, Albert-László
Barabási
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:
The
Year's Work in English Studies
Endorsements:
John Dore, Michael Tomasello
Papers online:
Ninio, A. (in press). Dependency grammar and
Hebrew. In Geoffrey Khan
(ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (EHLL),
Brill, USA. [PDF]
Ninio, A. (2011, July). Convergence of output to input in
Stage I syntax of English-speaking children. Paper presented at
a symposium on Close Matching of Adult Input and Child Output in Morpho-Syntactic
Development, chaired by P. Brooks. The 12th International Congress for the
Study of Child Language,
Ninio, A. (2011, March). When the output does not match the input:
accumulation of uses for the verb have by young English-speaking children. Paper presented at a symposium on Slow Mapping in the
Acquisition of Vocabulary and Syntax, chaired by A. Ninio. The Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Ninio, A. (2010). Predicate and argument. In P. C. Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge
encyclopedia of the language sciences (p. 659). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Ninio, A. (2010). Two-word stage. In P. C. Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge
encyclopedia of the language sciences (pp. 877-878). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Advance reviews: Akeel Bilgrami, Seymour Chatman, Noam Chomsky
Ninio, A. (2010, April). Young children learn a native English syntax. Poster
presented at the Conference on Human Development, Fordham University, New York
City, NY, April 9-11, 2010. [PPT]
Ninio, A. (2010). Review of Routes to language: Studies in honor of Melissa
Bowerman,
Edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole. Psychology Press, 2008. First
Language, 30, 131-134.
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. Invited 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.
Invited 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,
Ninio, A. (1995). Compiler Grammar: A dependency-oriented minimalist approach.
Theoretical Linguistics, 21, 159-195.
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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