Jill de Villiers
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American developmental psychologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jill G. de Villiers is a developmental psychologist known for her work in the field of language acquisition. She holds the position of Professor of Philosophy and Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology at Smith College. de Villiers is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 2018, she was elected as a Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jill de Villiers's Published Works
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- Complements to cognition: a longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding (2002) (513)
- Linguistic determinism and the understanding of false beliefs. (2000) (403)
- Language Processing and Language Acquisition (1990) (188)
- Language and theory of mind: What are the developmental relationships? (2000) (170)
- The interface of language and Theory of Mind (2007) (164)
- Development of the use of word order in comprehension (1973) (161)
- The Acquisition of Long-Distance Rules (1990) (140)
- Early judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children (1972) (128)
- Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (2011) (99)
- The emergence of bound variable structures (1991) (84)
- Competence and performance in child language: are children really competent to judge? (1974) (84)
- Using Scientific Knowledge to Inform Preschool Assessment: Making the Case for "Empirical Validity" (2005) (79)
- The Role of Language in Theory of Mind Development. (2014) (76)
- Imagining Articles: What a and the Can Tell Us About the Emergence of DP (2000) (74)
- Some facts one simply cannot deny (1975) (74)
- On this, that, and the other: Nonegocentrism in very young children ☆ (1974) (64)
- Language for thought: Coming to understand false beliefs (2003) (63)
- Direct evidentials, case, tense and aspect in Tibetan: evidence for a general theory of the semantics of evidential (2013) (58)
- Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs (2010) (54)
- Learning how to use verbs: lexical coding and the influence of the input (1985) (53)
- Answering hard questions: Wh-movement across dialects and disorder (2008) (48)
- Complementing Cognition: The Relationship between Language and Theory of Mind (1997) (48)
- Complements Enable Representation of the Contents of False Beliefs: The Evolution of a Theory of Theory of Mind (2009) (44)
- Deception dissociates from false belief reasoning in deaf children: Implications for the implicit versus explicit theory of mind distinction (2012) (38)
- Barriers, Binding, and Acquisition of the DP-NP Distinction (1995) (38)
- ‘We don’t talk Gypsy here’: Minority language policies in Europe (2017) (38)
- Quantitative Aspects of Agrammatism in Aphasia (1974) (35)
- Second order embedding and second order false belief (2008) (34)
- The Acquisition Path for Wh-Questions (2011) (32)
- Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008) (2007) (29)
- Recursive Complements and Propositional Attitudes (2014) (27)
- Gestural communication in oral deaf mother-child pairs: Language with a helping hand? (1993) (24)
- Theory of Mind: Language and Cognition in Deaf Children (2002) (20)
- Children's Insensitivity toInformation from the Target of Agreement: The Case of Xhosa (2009) (19)
- Getting Complements on your Mental State (Verbs) (2004) (16)
- What kind of concepts need language (2014) (15)
- Cultural and linguistic fairness in the assessment of semantics. (2004) (15)
- Questions after stories: Supplying context and removing it as a variable. (1996) (13)
- Number Agreement in English and Xhosa (2007) (12)
- Control of speech prosody in Broca's aphasia (1979) (12)
- Evidentiality and Narrative (2009) (11)
- On the Acquisition of Functional Categories: A General Commentary (1992) (11)
- The Emergence of Barriers to Wh-movement, Negative Concord, and Quantification (2004) (11)
- Taking Account of Both Languages in the Assessment of Dual Language Learners (2015) (10)
- Deciding among Theories of the Development of Coordination in Child Speech. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13. (1977) (9)
- Children’s quantification with every over time (2017) (9)
- Children’s Acquisition of Subject Markers in isiXhosa (2012) (8)
- Assessment of language acquisition. (2010) (8)
- The Acquisition of Complements (2016) (8)
- Continuity and modularity in language acquisition and research (2001) (8)
- The Acquisition of English (2017) (7)
- Why Roma Children Need Language Asessments in Romani (2017) (7)
- To be or not to be: Examining the role of language in a concept of negation (2019) (6)
- Understanding Passives with Non-Action Verbs. (1982) (6)
- Unbiased Language Assessment: Contributions of Linguistic Theory (2017) (6)
- Coherence as an explanation for theory of mind task failure in autism (2002) (6)
- Are conservative quantifiers easier to learn ? : Evidence from novel quantifier experiments (2019) (6)
- Why not LF for false belief reasoning? (2002) (5)
- Chapter 10. Perspectives on truth: The case of language and false belief reasoning (2018) (5)
- The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates: A comparison between adults and infants (2021) (5)
- Negative Islands in Language Acquisition (1998) (5)
- The Role(s) of Language in Theory of Mind (2021) (4)
- Form and Function in the Development of Sentence Negation. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 17. (1979) (4)
- Control of article use in SAE and AAE-speaking children (2000) (4)
- Chapter 8. Evidentiality, questions and the reflection principle in Tibetan: What do children learn when they learn about evidentiality? (2017) (4)
- Speech and Gestural Communication between Oral Deaf Children and Oral Deaf Mothers. (1989) (3)
- Comprehension and production of definite and indefinite noun phrases in English preschoolers (2009) (3)
- ON THE ACQUISITION OF FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES (1992) (3)
- Language, Inhibitory Control, and Explicit False Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Structural Equation Model (2015) (3)
- Patterns of Verb Use in Mother and Child. (1983) (3)
- Parsing and Grammar: On filling in the gaps (2015) (2)
- Assessing dual language learners of Spanish and English: Development of the QUILS: ES (2021) (2)
- Implicit alternatives insufficient for children ’ s implicatures with some * (2015) (2)
- 8 Constraints on Learning (1979) (1)
- Language and Reasoning About Beliefs (2013) (1)
- P. Fletcher and M. Garman. (eds), Language acquisition . Cambridge: C.U.P., 1979. Pp. xi + 507. (1982) (1)
- Assessing What Every 5-Year-Old Should Know (2001) (1)
- Number agreement in the acquisition of English and Xhosa (2009) (1)
- Implications of New Vocabulary Assessments for Minority Children (2021) (1)
- Deficit or difference: African American children's linguistic paths towards a Theory of Mind (2001) (1)
- 7 Crucial Experiences (1979) (0)
- Why Roma Children Need Testing in Romani (2019) (0)
- 1 Three Questions (1979) (0)
- DECIDING khIONG 'THEORIES OF THE DEVELO??IEYT OF COORDINATION IN CHILD SPEECH (1977) (0)
- Assessing Language Pragmatics: Who, What and How (2004) (0)
- What Every 3-year-old Should Know (2001) (0)
- Lexical Contrast as a Diagnostic Measure of Verb Lexical Organization (2007) (0)
- Syntactic parameter hunting: Little scavengers might get lost (1991) (0)
- 6 Freedom of Speech (1979) (0)
- Language Acquisition (2019) (0)
- The challenge of history (1985) (0)
- Language complexity, narratives and theory of mind of Romani speaking children (2018) (0)
- A Touchy Subject: Optimality and Coreference (2021) (0)
- Children's Sensitivity to Prosody and Ostension in Answers to Wh- Questions (2021) (0)
- The Acquisition of Subject Agreementin Xhosa (2007) (0)
- What Every 5-year-old Should Know: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. (1999) (0)
- Finding Signatures of Linguistic Reasoning (2017) (0)
- Intelligence in ape and man: by David Premack. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1976. xiv + 370 pp. $16.50☆ (1977) (0)
- From Evidence to Belief: Developmental Precursors for False Belief Ascriptions (2000) (0)
- When Must Children Acquire Long Distance Wh-Extraction ? (2019) (0)
- The use of neural networks to predict share prices (2012) (0)
- The characteristics of spontaneous language in young children identified as language delayed in Mandarin. (2022) (0)
- Masthead Logo (2019) (0)
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