Dorit Ravid, Ph.D.

Professor, Constantiner School of Education / Department of Communications Disorders

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Constantiner School of Education

Chair, Literacy and Language (formerly Script)

 

 

 Personal data

Date and Place of birth:

Military Service:           

Marital Status:             

5 February, 1952, Israel

31.12.69-31.10.71

Married, 3 children

Home Address:

Telephones:     

 

63 Weizman, Yehud 56101, Israel

(H) 03-5364304          (W) 03-6406045

(Fax) 972-3-6405067       (Mob) 972-544-482401

 

Education

1971-1974 Tel Aviv University Linguistics English literature B.A. 1974
1974-1978 Tel Aviv University Linguistics cum laude M.A. 1978
1980-1988 Tel Aviv University Linguistics Ph.D. 1988
Master's thesis: Word-formation processes in Modern Hebrew nouns and adjectives (Supervisor: Ruth A. Berman)
Doctoral dissertation: Transient and fossilized phenomena in inflectional morphology: Varieties of spoken Hebrew (Supervisor: Ruth A. Berman)
1991-1993 Mofet Institute Pedagogy Teaching license 1993

 

Research interests

Language acquisition, the development of linguistic literacy.
Later language development, acquisition of spelling, the development of text production abilities.

 

שפה ושיח

עקרונות טיפולוגיים ברכישת העברית כלשון אם

מודלים תיאורטיים וסוגיות מרכזיות בראשית רכישת השפה

מבוא כללי לקורס "שפה ושיח"

התפתחות שפתית והתפתחות שיח בגילאי הגן (3-6)

מבדקי שפה לגילאי הגן וראשית ביה"ס

בניית תשתית לרכישת קריאה וכתיבה

מבוא להתפתחות לשונית מאוחרת

התפתחות תפיסת הכתיב בשנות בית הספר היסודי

רמות ניתוח בשיח הדבור והכתוב לסוגותיו

ממדים בניתוח השיח

המילון המנטאלי והתפתחותו

התפתחות מורפולוגית ומילונית בגילאי ביה"ס

 

Selected publications

    1990

  • Ravid, D. 1990. Internal structure constraints on new-word formation devices in Modern Hebrew. Folia Linguistica 24, 289-346.


    • 1995

  • Ravid, D. 1995. Language change in child and adult Hebrew: A psycholinguistic perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Ravid, D. 1995. Neutralization of gender distinctions in Modern Hebrew numerals. Language Variation and Change 7, 79-100.
  • Ravid. D. 1995. The acquisition of morphological junctions in Modern Hebrew. In H. Pishwa & K. Maroldt (eds.) The development of morphological systematicity: a crosslinguistic perspective. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 55-77.
  • Ravid, D. & Y. Shlesinger. 1995. Factors in the selection of compound-type in spoken and written Hebrew. Language Sciences 17, 147-179.


    • 1996

  • Ravid, D. 1996. Accessing the mental lexicon: evidence from incompatibility between representation of spoken and written morphology. Linguistics 34, 1219-1246.


    • 1998

  • Ravid, D. & A. Avidor. 1998. Acquisition of derived nominals in Hebrew: Developmental and linguistic principles. Journal of Child Language 25, 229-266.
  • Ravid, D. & D. Hanauer. 1998. A prototype theory of rhyme: evidence from Hebrew. Cognitive Linguistics 9, 79-106.
  • Ashkenazi, O. & D. Ravid. 1998. Children’s understanding of linguistic humor: an aspect of metalinguistic awareness. Current Psychology of Cognition 17, 367-387.


    • 1999

  • Ravid, D. & R. Farah. 1999. Learning about noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic. First Language 19, 187-206.
  • Ravid, D., G. Avivi-Ben Zvi & R. Levy. 1999. Derivational morphology in SLI children: structure and semantics of Hebrew nouns. In M. Perkins & S. Howard (eds.) New directions in language development and disorders. New York : Plenum, 39-49.
  • Ravid, D. & Y. Shlesinger. Modern Hebrew adverbials: Between syntactic class and lexical category. 1999. In E. Contini-Morava & Y. Tobin (eds.) Grammatical categories. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 333-351.


    • 2000

  • Berman, R.A. & D. Ravid. 2000. Acquisition of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic: a review of current research. Hebrew Studies 41, 7-22
  • Ravid, D. & M. Nir. 2000. On the development of the category of adjective in Hebrew. In M. Beers, B. van den Bogaerde, G. Bol, J. de Jong, & C. Rooijmans (eds.) From sound to sentence: Studies on first language acquisition. Groningen: Center for Language and Cognition, 113-124.
  • Cahana-Amitay, D. & D. Ravid. 2000. Optional bound morphology in the development of text production. In S.C. Howell, S.A. Fish & T. Keith-Lucas (eds.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. I. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 176-184.


    • 2001

  • Gillis, S. and D. Ravid. 2001. Language-specific effects on the development of written morphology. In S. Bendjaballah and W. U. Dressler (eds.) Morphology 2000. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001, 129-136.
  • Ravid, D. & D. Malenky. 2001. Awareness of linear and nonlinear morphology in Hebrew: a developmental study. First Language 21, 25-56.
  • Ravid, D. 2001. Learning to spell in Hebrew: Phonological and morphological factors. Reading and Writing 14, 459-485.
  • Levin, I., D. Ravid & S. Rapaport. 2001. Morphology and spelling among Hebrew-speaking children: from kindergarten to first grade. Journal of Child language 28, 741-769.
  • Ravid, D. & Y. Shlesinger. 2001. Vowel reduction in Modern Hebrew: Traces of the past and current variation. Folia Linguistica 35, 3—4, 371-397, 2001.


    • 2002

  • Ravid, D., J. van Hell, E. Rosado & A. Zamora. 2002. Subject NP patterning in the development of text production: Speech and writing. Written Language and Literacy 5,1, 69-94.
  • Strömqvist, S., V. Johansson, S. Kriz, H. Ragnarsdףttir, R. Aisenman & D. Ravid. 2002; Toward a cross-linguistic comparison of lexical quanta in speech and writing. Written Language and Literacy 5,1, 45-68.
  • Ravid, D. & L. Tolchinsky. 2002. Developing linguistic literacy: a comprehensive model. Journal of Child Language 29, 419-448.
  • Ravid, D., R. Levie & G. Avivi Ben-Zvi. 2002. The role of language typology in linguistic development: Implications for the study of language disorders. In Y. Levy & J. Schaeffer (eds.) Language competence across populations: Toward a definition of SLI. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 183-207.
  • Ravid, D. & S. Gillis. 2002. Teachers' perception of spelling patterns and children's spelling errors: A cross-linguistic perspective. In M. Neef, A. Neijt and R. Sproat (eds.). Consistency in writing systems. Tübingen:Niemeyer Verlag, 71-95.
  • Ravid, D. 2002. A developmental perspective on root perception in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. In Y. Shimron (ed.) The processing and acquisition of root-based morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.


    • 2003

  • Ravid, D. & L. Hayek. 2003. Learning about different ways of expressing number in the development of Palestinian Arabic. First Language, 23, 41-63.
  • Ravid, D. & E. Kubi. 2003. What is a spelling error? The discrepancy between perception and reality. Faits de Langue, special issue, 22, 87-98.
  • Ravid, D., E. Olshtain & R. Ze’elon. 2003. Gradeschoolers’ linguistic and pragmatic speech adaptation to native and non-native interlocution. Journal of Pragmatics 35, 71-99.
  • Ravid, D. & S. Zilberbuch. 2003a. Morpho-syntactic constructs in the development of spoken and written Hebrew text production. Journal of Child Language 30, 1-24.
  • Ravid, D. & S. Zilberbuch. 2003b. The development of complex nominals in expert and non-expert writing: A comparative study. Cognition and Pragmatics 11.2, 267-297.
  • Ravid, D., R. Levie & G. Avivi-Ben Zvi. 2003. Morphological disorders. In L. Verhoeven and Hans van Balkom (eds.) Classification of developmental language disorders: Theoretical issues and clinical implications. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 235-260.
  • Gillis, D. & D. Ravid. 2003. Language acquisition. In J. Verschueren, J.-O. Östman J. Blommaert, and C.E. Bulcaen (Eds.), Handbook of pragmatics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995-2003.
  • Gillis, S., & Ravid, D. 2003. Fonologie, morfologie en leren spellen:  Een crosslinguïstisch psycholinguïstisch onderzoek. In G. De Schutter &  S. Gillis (Eds.), Fonologische kruispunten. Gent: KANTL, 199-231.
  • Ravid, D. & R. Schiff. 2004. Learning to represent vowels in written Hebrew: Different factors across development. First Language, 24, 185-208.


    • 2004

  • Schiff, R. & D. Ravid. Vowel representation in written Hebrew: phonological, orthographic and morphological contexts. Reading and Writing, 17, 245-265.
  • Ravid, D. & R. Schiff. 2004. Learning to represent vowels in written Hebrew: Different factors across development. First Language, 24, 185-208.
  • Schiff, R. & D. Ravid. Representing written vowels in university students with dyslexia compared with normal Hebrew readers. Annals of Dyslexia, 54, 39-64.
  • Haim, O., S. Strauss & D. Ravid. Relations between EFL teachers' formal knowledge of grammar and their in-action mental models of children's minds and learning. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20, 8.
  • Ravid, D. Later lexical development in Hebrew: derivational morphology revisited. In R.A. Berman (ed.) Language development across childhood and adolescence: Psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 53-82.


    • 2005

  • Ravid, D. & D. Cahana-Amitay. Verbal and nominal expression in narrating conflict situations in Hebrew. Journal of Pragmatics, 37, 157-183.
  • Ravid, D. & A. Bar-On. Manipulating written Hebrew roots across development: The interface of semantic, phonological and orthographic factors. Reading & Writing, 18, 231-256.
  • Ravid, D. Emergence of linguistic complexity in written expository texts: Evidence from later language acquisition. In D. Ravid & H. Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (eds.) Perspectives on language and language development. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 337-355.
  • Ravid, D. & H. Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Eds.), Perspectives on language and language development. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Ravid, D. Hebrew orthography and literacy. In R.M. Joshi & P.G. Aaron (Eds.), Handbook of orthography and literacy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 339-363.


    • 2006

  • Ravid, D. & S. Haimowitz. The vowel path: Learning about vowel representation in written Hebrew. Written Language and Literacy, 9, 67-93.
  • Ravid, D. & R. A. Berman. Information density in the development of spoken and written narratives in English and Hebrew. Discourse Processes, 41, 117-149
  • Laaha, S., D. Ravid, K. Korecky-Kroll, G. Laaha, and W.U. Dressler. Early noun plurals in German: Regularity, productivity, or default? Journal of Child Language, 33, 271-302.
  • Gillis, S. & D. Ravid.. Typological effects on spelling development: a crosslinguistic study of Hebrew and Dutch. Journal of Child Language, 33 (3), 621-659.
  • Ravid, D. Word-level morphology: A psycholinguistic perspective on linear formation in Hebrew nominals. Morphology, 16, 127-148.
  • Ravid, D. & R. Schiff. Roots and patterns in Hebrew language development: evidence from written morphological analogies. Reading and Writing, 19, 789-818.
  • Ravid, D., T. Vered-Leybovitch & A. Gino-Rodin. NPs in children's books: a developmental psycholinguistic perspective. Chelkat Lashon, 37-38 (R. Borstein & D. Ravid, eds. Festschrift Issue for Yitzhak Shlesinger). 187-203 [in Hebrew]
  • Hora, A., G. Avivi-Ben Zvi, R. Levie & D. Ravid. Acquiring diminutive structures and meanings in Hebrew: an experimental study. In I. Savickiene & W.U. Dressler, eds. The acquisition of diminutives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 295-317.
  • Ravid, D. Semantic development in textual contexts during the school years: Noun Scale analyses. Journal of Child Language, 33, 791-821, 2006.
  • Ravid, D. & R. Schiff. Morphological abilities in Hebrew-speaking gradeschoolers from two socio-economic backgrounds: An analogy task. First Language, 26, 381-402.
  • Tannenbaum, M., Abugov, N., & D. Ravid. Bonding in narratives of ultra-orthodox Jewish girls. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27, 472-490.


    • In Press

  • Ravid, D. & Doron-Geller, D. Development of conditional sentences in Hebrew child language: an experimental study. Literacy and Language (Oryanut Ve-Safa) [in Hebrew]
  • Ravid, D. & R. Schiff. Morpho-phonological categories of noun plurals in Hebrew: A developmental study. Linguistics.
  • Ravid, D. & Y. Epel Mashraki. Prosodic reading, reading comprehension and language skills in Hebrew-speaking 4th graders. Journal of Research in Reading.
  • Ravid, D. & V. Geiger. Promoting morphological awareness in Hebrew-speaking gradeschoolers: An intervention study using linguistic humor. Special issue of First language on Intervention and Metalanguage.
  • Schiff, R. & D. Ravid. Morphological analogies in Hebrew-speaking university students with dyslexia compared with typically developing gradeschoolers. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
  • Berman, R.A. & D. Ravid. Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing. In A. Tyler, Y. Kim, & M. Takada, eds. Language in the context of use: Cognitive approaches to language and language learning. Mouton de Gruyter: The Hague.
  • Ravid, D., & R. Saban. Syntactic and meta-syntactic skills in the school years: A developmental study in Hebrew. In I. Kupferberg & A. Stavans, eds. Language education in Israel: Papers in Honor of Elite Olshtain. Jerusalem: Magnes Press



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