Anat Ninio

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Anat Ninio is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Anat Ninio has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 13 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Anat Ninio's work include Language Development and Disorders (32 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (21 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). Anat Ninio is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (32 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (21 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). Anat Ninio collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and United States. Anat Ninio's co-authors include Jerome S. Bruner, Catherine E. Snow, Amia Lieblich, Barbara Alexander Pan, Pamela Rosenthal Rollins, Daniel Kahneman, Sol Kugelmass and Israel Lieblich and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Anat Ninio

56 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The achievement and antecedents of labelling 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The achievement and antecedents of labelling
    1978 726 citations Anat Ninio et al. Journal of Child Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anat Ninio Israel 24 1.8k 989 457 300 241 57 2.5k
Erika Hoff‐Ginsberg United States 16 1.8k 1.0× 728 0.7× 322 0.7× 267 0.9× 402 1.7× 25 2.2k
Edward J. Kameenui United States 31 2.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.8× 286 0.6× 260 0.9× 198 0.8× 95 3.3k
Catherine Garvey United States 18 1.5k 0.9× 570 0.6× 890 1.9× 466 1.6× 461 1.9× 46 2.5k
Marilyn Shatz United States 23 2.3k 1.3× 690 0.7× 926 2.0× 405 1.4× 342 1.4× 54 3.3k
Bonnie Wing‐Yin Chow Hong Kong 24 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 187 0.4× 350 1.2× 304 1.3× 60 2.4k
Carol S. Lidz United States 16 1.8k 1.0× 663 0.7× 148 0.3× 192 0.6× 431 1.8× 41 2.3k
Jean Berko Gleason United States 24 918 0.5× 284 0.3× 622 1.4× 800 2.7× 180 0.7× 43 2.0k
Stephanie Al Otaiba United States 35 3.2k 1.8× 2.4k 2.5× 314 0.7× 423 1.4× 238 1.0× 133 3.9k
David J. Chard United States 31 3.4k 1.9× 2.7k 2.8× 189 0.4× 523 1.7× 346 1.4× 66 4.5k
Marina Vasilyeva United States 24 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 160 0.4× 431 1.4× 192 0.8× 60 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anat Ninio

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ninio, Anat. (2017). Projectivity is the mathematical code of syntax. Physics of Life Reviews. 21. 215–217. 3 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2015). Learning transitive verbs from single-word verbs in the input by young children acquiring English. Journal of Child Language. 43(5). 1103–1130. 6 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2015). Bids for joint attention by parent–child dyads and by dyads of young peers in interaction. Journal of Child Language. 43(1). 135–156. 7 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2014). Variables and Values in Children’s Early Word-Combinations. Psychology of Language and Communication. 18(2). 106–125. 2 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2013). Learning a generative syntax from transparent syntactic atoms in the linguistic input. Journal of Child Language. 41(6). 1249–1275. 5 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2005). Testing the role of semantic similarity in syntactic development. Journal of Child Language. 32(1). 35–61. 12 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2004). Young children's difficulty with adjectives modifying nouns. Journal of Child Language. 31(2). 255–285. 23 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (2003). NO VERB IS AN ISLAND: NEGATIVE EVIDENCE ON THE VERB ISLAND HYPOTHESIS *. 54(2). 141–3. 6 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1999). Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity. Journal of Child Language. 26(3). 619–653. 123 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat, Catherine E. Snow, Barbara Alexander Pan, & Pamela Rosenthal Rollins. (1994). Classifying communicative acts in children's interactions. Journal of Communication Disorders. 27(2). 157–187. 110 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1993). On the fringes of the system: children's acquisition of syntactically isolated forms at the onset of speech. First Language. 13(39). 291–312. 15 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1992). The relation of children's single word utterances to single word utterances in the input. Journal of Child Language. 19(1). 87–110. 38 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1991). Is Early Speech Situational? The Relation of Early Utterances to the Context.. 58(3). 180–6. 1 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat, et al.. (1988). Fathers' Involvement in the Care of Their Infants and Their Attributions of Cognitive Competence to Infants. Child Development. 59(3). 652–652. 39 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1988). The Effects of Cultural Background, Sex, and Parenthood on Beliefs About the Timetable of Cognitive Development in Infancy.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 34(4). 301–3. 29 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1986). The illocutionary aspect of utterances∗. Discourse Processes. 9(2). 127–147. 7 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1980). Picture-Book Reading in Mother-Infant Dyads Belonging to Two Subgroups in Israel. Child Development. 51(2). 587–587. 195 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat. (1979). The Naive Theory of the Infant and Other Maternal Attitudes in Two Subgroups in Israel. Child Development. 50(4). 976–980. 3 indexed citations
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Ninio, Anat & Amia Lieblich. (1976). The Grammar of Action: "Phrase Structure" in Children's Copying. Child Development. 47(3). 846–846. 25 indexed citations

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