Computing the Sentence A Relevance-Theoretical Model of Syntactic Development

Anat Ninio, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Anat Ninio is the Joseph and Belle Braun Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her BA in Statistics and English Linguistics in 1965, BA in Psychology in 1969, MA in Psychology in 1970, and PhD in Psychology in 1974, with both graduate theses supervised by Daniel Kahneman. She pursued postdoctoral studies at Oxford University before joining the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, initially as a Lecturer. She formally retired in 2012 but remains active in research. Her previous books include Language and the Learning Curve: A New Theory of Syntactic Development (2006) and Syntactic Development, its Input and Output (2011), both with OUP.