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Ruth A. Berman

Ruth A. Berman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
9479
World Ranking
4100
National Ranking
26

Overview

Ruth A. Berman is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields including developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics and language, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several topics within these fields, notably language development and disorders, syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language, discourse, communication strategies, multilingual education and policy, and natural language processing techniques.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche' (2020, Cognition)
  • Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K'iche' (2021, Open Research Europe)
  • Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K'iche' (2022, Open Research Europe)
  • Acquisition and Development of Verb/Predicate Chaining in Hebrew (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Levels of Integration in Children's Early Clause Combining in Hebrew (2020, Language Learning and Development)

Their research results have appeared in various venues including Linguistics, Open Research Europe, Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, and Language Learning and Development.

Frequent collaborators include Patrícia Amaral, Matthew Baerman, Heike Behrens, Delia Bentley, and Tel Aviv.

Best Publications

  • Relating events in narrative: A crosslinguistic developmental study.

    Ruth A. Berman;Dan Isaac Slobin

  • Cross-linguistic perspectives on the development of text-production abilities: Speech and writing

    Ruth Aronson Berman;Ludo Th Verhoeven

  • Comparing Narrative and Expository Text Construction Across Adolescence: A Developmental Paradox

    Ruth A. Berman;Bracha Nir-sagiv

  • The psycholinguistics of developing text construction.

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Modern Hebrew structure

    Ruth Aronson Berman;Shmuel Bolozky

  • On the ability to relate events in narrative

    Ruth A. Berman

  • The acquisition of Hebrew.

    Ruth A. Berman

  • STRUCTURE AND USE IN THE ACQUISITION OF WORD FORMATION

    Eve V. Clark;Ruth A. Berman

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Becoming a Literate Language User: Oral and Written Text Construction across Adolescence

    Ruth A. Berman;Dorit Ravid

  • Language development across childhood and adolescence

    Ruth Aronson Berman

  • Between emergence and mastery: The long development route of language acquisition

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Discourse stance: Written and spoken language

    Ruth Berman;Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdóttir;Sven Strömqvist

  • Developing Noun Phrase Complexity at School Age: A Text-Embedded Cross-Linguistic Analysis

    Dorit Ravid;Ruth A. Berman

  • Narrative Competence and Storytelling Performance: How Children Tell Stories in Different Contexts

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Form and Function in Introducing Narrative and Expository Texts: A Developmental Perspective

    Ruth A. Berman;Irit Katzenberger

  • Information Density in the Development of Spoken and Written Narratives in English and Hebrew

    Dorit Ravid;Ruth A. Berman

  • Linguistic indicators of inter-genre differentiation in later language development.

    Ruth A. Berman;Bracha Nir-Sagiv

  • Types of linguistic knowledge: interpreting and producing compound nouns*

    Eve V. Clark;Ruth A. Berman

  • Introduction: Developing discourse stance in different text types and languages

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Verb-pattern alternation: the interface of morphology, syntax, and semantics in Hebrew child language.

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Linguistic theory and psychological reality: Morris Halle, Joan Bresnan, and George A. Miller (eds.) MIT Bicentennial Studies 3. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., (USA)/London, 1978. xvii+329 pp £12.25. Reviewed by Ruth A. Berman, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.

    Ruth A. Berman

  • Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use Across Adolescence

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Frequent Co-Authors

Dan I. Slobin
Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley
Dorit Ravid
Dorit Ravid Tel Aviv University
Eve V. Clark
Eve V. Clark Stanford University
Ben Ambridge
Ben Ambridge University of Liverpool
Ludo Verhoeven
Ludo Verhoeven Radboud University
Letitia R. Naigles
Letitia R. Naigles University of Connecticut
Edith L. Bavin
Edith L. Bavin La Trobe University

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