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Virginia Valian

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Bachelors Psychology Barnard College

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According to Wikipedia, Virginia Valian is an American psycholinguist, cognitive scientist, and theorist of male-female differences in professional achievement. Vallen is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College as well as a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs the Language Acquisition Research Center and the Gender Equity Project , both at Hunter College. For her work on gender equity, Valian received the 2006 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN . She became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.

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Why so slow? : the advancement of women (1998) (607)
Syntactic subjects in the early speech of American and Italian children (1991) (540)
Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia (2005) (219)
Syntactic categories in the speech of young children. (1986) (194)
Bilingualism and cognition (2014) (190)
Null subjects: A problem for parameter-setting models of language acquisition (1990) (161)
Abstract sentence representations in 3-year-olds: Evidence from language production and comprehension (2008) (149)
Gender disparities in colloquium speakers at top universities (2017) (131)
Anchor points in language learning: The role of marker frequency ☆ (1988) (115)
A study of relative clauses in Williams syndrome (2002) (102)
Abstract categories or limited-scope formulae? The case of children's determiners* (2009) (86)
An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence (2018) (85)
Logical and Psychological Constraints on the Acquisition of Syntax (1990) (78)
Young children's acquisition of wh-questions: the role of structured input (2003) (72)
Beyond Gender Schemas: Improving the Advancement of Women in Academia (2004) (71)
The development of syntactic subjects in Portuguese-speaking children (1996) (66)
Transformations, basic operations and language acquisition (1978) (52)
Representation of a sentence and its pragmatic implications: Verbal, imagistic, or abstract?* (1977) (51)
Women at the Top in Science--And Elsewhere. (2007) (49)
Young Children's Understanding of Present and Past Tense (2006) (49)
Increasing gender diversity in the STEM research workforce (2019) (46)
When opportunity knocks twice: two-year-olds' repetition of sentence subjects (2005) (37)
Young children's imitation of sentence subjects: Evidence of processing limitations. (1996) (33)
Bilingualism and cognition: A focus on mechanisms* (2014) (31)
The Cognitive Bases of Gender Bias (1999) (31)
PROSODY AND ADULTS' LEARNING OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE (1996) (30)
Sex, Schemas, and Success: What's Keeping Women Back?. (1998) (28)
Interests, Gender, and Science (2014) (27)
Laboratory life: Scientists of the world speak up for equality (2013) (25)
Direct object predictability: effects on young children's imitation of sentences (2006) (24)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language: Innateness and learnability (2009) (24)
Aspects of a theory of language acquisition (1980) (22)
Arguing about innateness* (2014) (21)
What's what: talkers help listeners hear and understand by clarifying sentential relations (1976) (20)
Children ' s Imitation of Sentence Subjects : Evidence of Processing Limitations (2004) (18)
Categories of First Syntax: Be, Be+ing, and Nothingness (1992) (18)
Children's internal organization of locative categories. (1979) (18)
Raise Your Hand if You're a Woman in Science (2005) (14)
Gender, Modern Sexism, and the 2016 election (2019) (13)
Language-specific effects in Alzheimer’s disease: Subject omission in Italian and English (2011) (12)
Asking questions in child English: Evidence for early abstract representations (2017) (11)
Sex, Sex Differences, and Social Behavior (2000) (10)
Putting together bilingualism and executive function (2016) (10)
9. Abstract linguistic representations and innateness: The development of determiners (2009) (10)
Gender Disparities in Awards to Neuroscience Researchers. (2019) (9)
Born to Parse How Children Select Their Languages (2020) (7)
Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: Questions and insights (2019) (7)
The Role of Cross-Linguistic Variationin the Acquisition of Auxiliary Inversion in Wh-questions (2009) (6)
Linguistic knowledge and language acquisition (1981) (5)
Running in Place (1998) (5)
What works and what doesn’t: How to increase the representation of women in academia and business (2010) (5)
Two Nobels for women — why so slow? (2018) (5)
Parser failure and grammar change (1993) (5)
LINGUISTIC CAPACITY OF VERY YOUNG CHILDREN. BY BEVER, THOMAS G. AND OTHERS (2007) (4)
Women in Science – and Elsewhere (2008) (4)
Variability: Definitions of language and language learning (2019) (3)
Language acquisition hypotheses: A reply to Goodluck & Solan (1979) (3)
Determiners: An empirical argument for innateness1 (2013) (3)
What children say when asked "what?": a study of the use of syntactic knowledge. (1979) (3)
Inclusion of auxiliaries: Competence and performance differences in early learners (2008) (3)
The advancement of women: Why so slow? (2000) (2)
Recruitment and Retention: Guidelines for Chairs (2007) (2)
Listening and clarity of syntactic structure (1980) (2)
When Children Don’t Say What They Know (2016) (1)
A Richer and More Diverse Future for Cell Biology (2010) (1)
Psycholinguistic Experiment and Linguistic Intuition 1 (2019) (1)
MEMORY FOR FRENCH NEGATION BY STUDENTS OF FRENCH (1985) (1)
We are all complicit in harassment and abuse (2019) (1)
Who do you like? Who will you vote for? Political ideology and person perception in the 2020 U.S. presidential election (2022) (1)
The Tense Puzzle in Second Language Acquisition (2021) (1)
How science fails women – and men (2004) (1)
Advancing Gender Equity: How Campus Leaders Can Help (2005) (1)
Women, science, and academia (2006) (1)
Alter Egos and Their Names 531 * I Have Benefited in the Writing of This Paper from Conversations with Alter Egos and Their Names (2005) (0)
English Valian Corpus (2004) (0)
Five Questions about Language Learning (2021) (0)
Psychology: More alike than different (2011) (0)
Recruitment and Retention Guidelines for Chairs, Heads, and Deans (2008) (0)
Supporting women’s research in predominantly undergraduate institutions: Experiences with a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award (2022) (0)
Subject drop in Italian Alzheimer’s disease (2005) (0)
Rethinking learning: comments on Rethinking innateness (1999) (0)
Chapter 1. Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond (2019) (0)
Chapter 15. Putting together bilingualism and executive function (2019) (0)
Developmental biology: Splitting the sexes (2014) (0)
Clustering in the Acquisition of English by Thai Students (2001) (0)
Schemas and Inequality. (2000) (0)
Summer books (2013) (0)
Understanding Biases and Overcoming Barriers for Promoting Gender Inclusive Organizations (2019) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language: Theoretical and methodological approaches (2009) (0)
Do bilinguals get the joke? Humor comprehension in mono- and bilinguals (2022) (0)
How infants' utterances grow: A probabilistic account of early language development (2022) (0)
Who's to Blame? (1991) (0)
Advancing Women: Annotated Bibliography (2000) (0)
Abstract Syntactic Knowledge or Limited-Scope Formulae: A Computational Study of Children's Early Utterances (2019) (0)
How Gender Works at Work (Part 1) (2011) (0)
Power, Effectiveness, and Gender (2006) (0)
Learning Pronoun Case from Distributional Cues: Flexible Frames for Case Acquisition (2020) (0)
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (Part 1) (2011) (0)
All-male line-up yet again (2011) (0)
Individuals and Institutions : How to Advance Women in Science (2015) (0)
Two Nobels for women — why so slow? (2018) (0)
Solving a Work Problem (2019) (0)
From Molehills to Mountains (1998) (0)
Saying What We Mean, More or Less. (1985) (0)
Who Belongs at Harvard (2010) (0)
Children’s Postulation of Null Subjects: Parameter Setting and Language Acquisition (2018) (0)

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Why so slow?: the advancement of women