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receiving a copy of any of the papers not presently downloadable, please send
me an email to: msninio@mscc.huji.ac.il,
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address.
Hershberg, U. & Ninio, A.
(2002). Cognitive systems and the
special order of their environment.
Res-Systemica : European Systems Science Journal, 2,
Special Issue: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Systems Science,
October 2002,
Hershberg, U. & Ninio, A. (2002,
January). Optimal exemplar learning in
cognitive systems. Paper
presented at the Special Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning,
European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems (ESSCS).
Hershberg, U., Efroni, S, Ninio, A.
& Cohen,
Hershberg,
U. & 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. (2006). Language and the
learning curve: A new theory of syntactic development.
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
Ninio, A. (2006, April). Syntactic development: Lessons from complexity
theory. Invited talk at the Eight Annual
Gregynog/Nant Gwrtheyrn Conference on Child Language, Nant Gwrtheyrn,
Ninio, A. (2006, July). Language
development as linking to the network of speakers. Paper presented at The
Second Language Culture and Mind conference (LCM 2) - Integrating Perspectives
and Methodologies in the Study of Language,
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,
Ninio, A. (2008, September). Self-Organized Criticality and the properties of English.
Paper presented at the 5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2008),
Selected
publications on syntactic development:
If you're interested in receiving a copy of any of the papers not presently
downloadable, please send me an email to: msninio@mscc.huji.ac.il, including
your regular mailing address.
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).
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. (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). Expression of communicative intents in the single-word period
and the vocabulary spurt. In K. Nelson & Z. Reger (Eds.), Children's
language (Vol. 8, pp. 103-124.
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,
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).
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. (1999). ). Pathbreaking verbs in
syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity. Journal
of Child Language, 26, 619-653. Also in PDF
format or postscipt or compressed postscript or as HTML
Ninio, A. (1999). Model learning in syntactic development: Intransitive verbs.
Invited article for a special issue on Cross-linguistic Studies of Early Grammar,
edited by M. M. Vihman. International Journal of Bilingualism, 3,
111-131. Full text: PDF or postscipt or compressed postscript
Ninio, A. (1999). Learning from examples in syntactic
development. Keynote address at the 11th Australasian Human
Development Conference,
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. Full
text: in text format
Ninio, A. (2003).
Review of Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee
(eds.). Trends in Bilingual Acquisition.
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 K. Duvignau, O. Gasquet &
B. Gaume, 17, 813-821.
Ninio, A. (2003).
No verb is an island: Negative
evidence on the Verb Island hypothesis. Psychology of Language and Communication, 7, 3-21.
Hershberg, U. & 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.
Ninio, A. (2004).
Young children's difficulty with adjectives modifying
nouns. Journal of Child Language, 31, 255-285.
Ninio, A. (2005). Testing
the role of semantic similarity in syntactic development. Journal of Child Language, 32,
35-61.
Ninio, A. (2005). Accelerated learning
without semantic similarity: indirect objects. Cognitive
Linguistics, 16, 531–556. Prefinal version, also in PDF format.
Ninio, A. (2005). Adult-type
grammatical relations in children's early language.. In B. Bokus
(Ed.), Studies in the psychology
of child language: In honor of Grace Wales Shugar (pp. 71-83).Warsaw:
Matrix.
Ninio, A. (2006). Language and the learning curve: A new theory of syntactic
development.
Ninio, A. (2006). Kernel
vocabulary and Zipf's Law in maternal input to syntactic development. BUCLD 30: Proceedings of the 30th annual
Ninio, A. (2006, April). Syntactic development: Lessons from complexity
theory. Invited talk at the Eight Annual
Gregynog/Nant Gwrtheyrn Conference on Child Language, Nant Gwrtheyrn,
Hershberg, U. & Ninio, A. (in press). Cognitive systems and the special order
of their environment. Journal of
Applied Systems Studies.
Ninio,
A. (in press). Review of What is language development? Rationalist, empiricist, and pragmatist
approaches to the acquisition of syntax by James Russell.
Selected
publications on language acquisition in an interactive context:
If you're interested in receiving a copy of any of the papers not presently
downloadable, please send me an email to: msninio@mscc.huji.ac.il, including
your regular mailing address.
Bruner, J., Caudill, E., & Ninio, A. (1977). Language and experience. In
R.S. Peters (Ed.), John Dewey reconsidered. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Ninio, A., & Bruner, J. (1978). The achievement and antecedents of
labelling. Journal of Child Language, 5, 1-15. . [PDF]
Ninio, A. (1980). Picture-book reading in mother-infant dyads belonging to two
subgroups in
Ninio, A. (1980). The ostensive definition in vocabulary teaching. Journal
of Child Language, 7, 565-573.
Ninio, A. (1983). Joint bookreading as a multiple vocabulary acquisition
device. Developmental Psychology, 19, 445-451. [PDF]
Ninio, A., & 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).
Ninio, A. & Wheeler, P. (1984). A manual for
classifying verbal communicative acts in mother-infant interaction –
Revised. Working Papers in Developmental Psychology, No.
1.
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. (1986). The direct mapping of
function to form in children's early language. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 15, 559 (Abstract).
Ninio, A., & Snow, C. (1988). ). Language acquisition through language use:
The functional sources of children's early utterances. In Y.
Levy, I. Schlesinger, & M.D.S. Braine (Eds.), Categories and processes
in language acquisition (pp. 11-30).
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. (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. (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. (1992). Predicting risk for school learning problems from maternal
attitudes at two years. In C. W. Greenbaum & J. G. Auerbach (Eds.), Longitudinal
studies of children at risk: Cross-national perspectives (pp. 221-232).
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. (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., & Snow, E. C.
(1996). Pragmatic development.
Ninio, A. (1998). The meaning of children's first words: Evidence from the
input. (Reprint of article from Journal of Pragmatics, 1985 9, 527-546,
with a Postscript). In A. Kasher (Ed.), Pragmatics: Critical assessment.
Ninio, A. and Snow, C. (1999). ). The development
of pragmatics: Learning to use language appropriately. In T. K.
Bhatia & W. C. Ritchie (Eds.), Handbook of language acquisition (pp.
347-383).
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]
For the following
publications, please contact Prof. Catherine Snow at
Snow, C., & Ninio, A. (1985). The contracts of literacy:
Learning how to learn from reading books. Invited chapter. In W. Teale (Ed.), Emergent
literacy: writing and reading (pp. 116-138).
Ninio, A, Wheeler, P, Snow, C. E.,
Pan, B. A., and Rollins, P. R. (1991). INCA-A: Inventory of Communicative
Acts - Abridged. Coding manual distributed by Harvard Graduate School of
Education.
Ninio, A, Snow, C. E., Pan, B. A., and Rollins, P. R. (1994).
Classifying communicative acts in children's interactions. Journal of
Communication Disorders, 27, 158-187.
Selected publications on theoretical issues:
Ninio, A. (1990). ).
The genome might as well store the entire
language in the environment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 746-747.
Ninio, A. (1995). Compiler Grammar: A
dependency-oriented minimalist approach. Theoretical Linguistics, 21,
159-195.
If you're interested in receiving a copy of any of the papers not presently
downloadable, please send me an email to: msninio@mscc.huji.ac.il, including
your regular mailing address.
Ninio, A. (1979). The naive theory of the infant and other maternal attitudes
in two subgroups in
Ninio, A. (1987). A comparison of mothers' and fathers' beliefs concerning the
timetable of cognitive development in infancy. Invited article for a special
issue on Women in
Ninio, A., & Rinott, N. (1988). Fathers' involvement in the care of their
infants and their attributions of cognitive competence to infants. Child
Development, 59, 652-
Ninio, A. (1988). The effects of cultural background, sex and parenthood on
beliefs concerning the timetable of cognitive development in infancy. Merrill-Palmer
Quarterly, 34, 369-388.
Ninio, A. (1990). When should the first book be bought for a child? An
exploration of maternal decision making. In K. Benyamini, M. Amir, A. Dolev, R.
Cohen, & I. M. Schlesinger (Eds.), Theory and application in psychology.
Volume in memory of Israel Lieblich (pp. 202-211).
Ninio, A. (1990). Early environmental experiences and school achievement in the
second grade: An Israeli study. International Journal of Behavioral
Development, 13, 1-22.
Ninio, A. (1992). Predicting risk for school learning problems from maternal
attitudes at two years. In C. W. Greenbaum & J. G. Auerbach (Eds.), Longitudinal
studies of children at risk: Cross-national perspectives (pp. 221-232).