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  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Elizabeth Bates was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research focused extensively on social sciences, with particular attention to health, sociology and political science, and gender studies. Their work incorporated a range of subfields including demography and clinical psychology.

The main topics covered in their publications included intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault and victimization studies, sex work and related issues, family dynamics and relationships, child abuse and trauma, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, and child welfare and adoption.

Elizabeth Bates contributed to several academic venues throughout their career. Frequent publication venues included:

  • Partner Abuse
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Social Sciences
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • JAMA Network Open

Their recent papers demonstrated a focus on domestic violence, victim support, and the consequences of violence on quality of life. Selected recent publications included:

  • "Barriers to Men's Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence," 2021, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "The impact of epilepsy on quality of life: Findings from a European survey," 2023, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • ""I Have Guys Call Me and Say 'I Can't Be the Victim of Domestic Abuse'": Exploring the Experiences of Telephone Support Providers for Male Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse," 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "But, Who Is the Victim Here? Exploring Judgments Toward Hypothetical Bidirectional Domestic Violence Scenarios," 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "Services for Domestic Violence Victims in the United Kingdom and United States: Where Are We Today?," 2020, Partner Abuse

Collaborative work was notable with frequent co-authors who contributed to the breadth of their research. These collaborators included:

  • Benjamin A. Hine
  • Julie Taylor
  • Nicola Graham-Kevan
  • Eilish Mairi Roy
  • Ching-Yu Huang

Elizabeth Bates' work was recognized in part by an award as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Variability in Early Communicative Development

    L Fenson;P S Dale;J S Reznick;E Bates

  • The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.

    Elizabeth Bates

  • The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy

    Elizabeth Bates;Laura Benigni

  • From First Words to Grammar: Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

    Elizabeth Bates;Inge Bretherton;Lynn S. Snyder;Marjorie Beeghly

  • Voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping

    Elizabeth Bates;Stephen M. Wilson;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Frederic Dick

  • Functionalism and the competition model

    Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

  • Competition, variation, and language learning.

    Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

  • Language and context: The acquisition of pragmatics

    Elizabeth Bates

  • The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing.

    Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

  • Developmental and Stylistic Variation in the Composition of Early Vocabulary.

    Elizabeth Bates;Virginia A. Marchman;Donna Thal;Larry Fenson

  • Continuity in lexical and morphological development: a test of the critical mass hypothesis.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Elizabeth Bates

  • On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition, Aphasia and Real-Time Processing.

    Elizabeth Bates;Judith C. Goodman

  • Cue validity and sentence interpretation in English, German, and Italian

    Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates;Reinhold Kliegl

  • Language, gesture, and the developing brain.

    Elizabeth Bates;Frederic Dick

  • A cross-linguistic study of early lexical development

    Maria Cristina Caselli;Elizabeth Bates;Paola Casadio;Judi Fenson

  • Timed picture naming in seven languages

    Elizabeth Bates;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Thomas Jacobsen;Anna Székely

  • A new on-line resource for psycholinguistic studies

    Anna Szekely;Thomas Jacobsen;Simona D'Amico;Simona D'Amico;Antonella Devescovi

  • The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months.

    Philip S. Dale;Elizabeth Bates;J. Steven Reznick;Colleen Morisset

  • Point-Light Biological Motion Perception Activates Human Premotor Cortex

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Stephen M. Wilson;Donald J. Hagler;Elizabeth Bates

  • Functional constraints on sentence processing: a cross-linguistic study.

    Elizabeth Bates;Sandra McNew;Brian MacWhinney;Antonella Devescovi

  • Language and Context

    Elizabeth Bates

  • On the inseparability of grammar and the lexicon: Evidence from acquisition.

    Elizabeth Bates;Judith C. Goodman

  • The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing

    Michael Harrington;Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University
Beverly Wulfeck
Beverly Wulfeck San Diego State University
Frederic Dick
Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Ayse Pinar Saygin
Ayse Pinar Saygin University of California, San Diego
Inge Bretherton
Inge Bretherton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Virginia A. Marchman
Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University
Arturo E. Hernandez
Arturo E. Hernandez University of Houston
Ovid J.L. Tzeng
Ovid J.L. Tzeng Academia Sinica
Luigi Pizzamiglio
Luigi Pizzamiglio Sapienza University of Rome

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