Anat Ninio

Anat Ninio
BornAugust 10, 1944
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationPsychologist

Anat Ninio (Hebrew: ענת ניניו; born August 10, 1944) is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in the interactive context of language acquisition, the communicative functions of speech, pragmatic development, and syntactic development.

Ninio is best known for her work on joint picture-book reading of parents and young children;[1] for developing the widely used Ninio and Wheeler[2] and INCA-A[3] taxonomies of communicative acts; and for her work on syntactic development, combining learning theory with the Chomskyan Minimalist Program.[4] She has published three books,[4][5][6] and over a hundred peer-referenced papers, book chapters and conference presentations.[7] Her Erdős number is 4.

  1. ^ Ninio, A. and Bruner, J. (1978). The achievement and antecedents of labelling. Journal of Child Language, 5, 1-15. Reprinted in M. B. Franklin and S. S. Barton (eds). (1988). Child language: a reader (pp. 36-49). Oxford: Oxford University Press. This article is the second most cited paper published in the Journal of Child Language, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), according to the Web of Science and Google Scholar.
  2. ^ Ninio, A. and Wheeler, P. (1984). A manual for classifying verbal communicative acts in mother-infant interaction. Working Papers in Developmental Psychology, No. 1. Jerusalem: The Martin and Vivian Levin Center, Hebrew University. Reprinted as Transcript Analysis, 1986, 3, 1-82, [revised version (1987) http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msninio/CDBK-wd.doc].
  3. ^ 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. See also a description of INCA-A in 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, 157–187. Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Ninio, A. (2006). Language and the learning curve: A new theory of syntactic development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929982-9, 978-0-19-929981-2.
  5. ^ Ninio, A. and Snow, E. C. (1996). Pragmatic development. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2471-5
  6. ^ Ninio, A. (2011). Syntactic development, its input and output. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956596-2
  7. ^ Anat Ninio’s Curriculum Vitae[permanent dead link] including her list of publications.