Anat Ninio is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
11 Facts About Anat Ninio
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Anat Ninio specializes in the interactive context of language acquisition, the communicative functions of speech, pragmatic development, and syntactic development.
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Anat Ninio has published three books, and over a hundred peer-referenced papers, book chapters and conference presentations.
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Anat Ninio was appointed a lecturer in Psychology at the Hebrew University in 1976, was promoted to senior lecturer in 1982, to associate professor in 1989, and to full professor in 1994.
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Anat Ninio held the endowed chair of Joseph H and Belle R Braun Professor in Psychology at Hebrew University.
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Anat Ninio served in various administrative capacities at the Hebrew University, among them as the Chair of the Graduate Developmental Program, Chair of the Department of Psychology, Chair of the Sturman Human Development Center, and Director of the Martin and Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychopathological Development of the Child and Adolescent.
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Anat Ninio served as a visiting professor at Duke University, New York University, the New School for Social Research, New York, the University of Quebec at Montreal, Harvard University, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Anat Ninio served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.
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Anat Ninio published two Hebrew language poetry books, one under the pseudonym 'Ada Shimon.
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Unexpectedly for an empiricist who emphasizes learning and the interactive context of acquisition, Anat Ninio uses as her linguistic framework Chomsky's Minimalist Program alongside the formally analogous Dependency Grammar.
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In describing the development of language in children, Anat Ninio adopts the concepts and methods of Complexity Science describing the process of acquisition as one in which young children join a complex network of speakers and speech as new participants in the network.