Ruth A. Berman

Ruth Berman
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Ruth Berman
Born (1935-10-19) 19 October 1935 (age 89)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalityIsraeli
Occupation(s)Linguist, Professor Emerita
Known forResearch on Modern Hebrew, language acquisition, and text construction abilities
Awards
  • EMET Prize (2012)
  • Honorary doctorate from Haifa University (2013)
  • Israel Prize in Hebrew and General Linguistics (2022)
  • Honorary life member of the Linguistics Society of America (2011)

Ruth Berman (née Aronson, born 1935 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an Israeli linguist, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University, where she held the chair in “Language across the Lifespan.”[1] Berman's research deals with the morphology, syntax, and lexicon of Modern Hebrew, first language acquisition in cross-linguistic perspective, later language development, and development of narrative and text construction abilities from early childhood across adolescence and adulthood.[2]

  1. ^ "Prof. Ruth Berman". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  2. ^ "Ruth A. Berman". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-08-17.