Curriculum Vitae
Jill G. de
Villiers (nee Dent) Date
of birth: 20th June, 1948.
Nationality: British;
permanent resident of U.S.
Degrees:
BSc in Psychology with first class honors, Reading
University, England, 1969.
PhD in Experimental Psychology, Harvard University,
1974.
Positions
Held:
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, l974-l979.
Associate Professor of Psychology and Philosophy,
Smith College, 1979-1986.
Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, Smith College,
1986-1995.
1995-present Sophia
and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and Philosophy.
NIH Human Development Study Section member, 1991-1995
Grant funding:
P.I.
A longitudinal study of the acquisition of language in oral deaf children March of Dimes $25,000 Mar87-Feb89
Renewal $20,000 Mar89-Feb 91
P.I. Language acquisition in oral
deaf children
NICHD $45,095
July 87-June 89.
co-PI Wh-acquisition:evidence from
converging methodologies
NSF Linguistics $150,000 Feb 1989-Jan
1992. With Tom Roeper.
Joint
-PI Psycholinguistics Training
Grant NIH, through U.Mass. $60,000/yr
1990-2004
co-P.I. Acquisition
of the language about mental events.
NIH $232,690 Sept '95-August '98.
With Tom Roeper.
co-PI Language
and theory of mind in deaf children.
NICHD $1,200,000. August '96 -July 2000.
With Peter de Villiers, Brenda
Schick, Robert Hoffmeister.
co-PI Development
and Validation of a Language test for children speaking non-standard English: a
study of children who
speak African American English.
NIH $2.7m March 98-Feb 2004
With Harry Seymour and Tom Roeper,
U.Mass.
Publications
Books:
de Villiers, J.G. and de Villiers, P.A. Language
Acquisition. Harvard University Press, 1978.
de Villiers, P.A. and de Villiers, J.G. Early
Language, The Developing Child Series, Harvard University Press, 1979.
Frazier, L. and de Villiers, J. G. (eds) Language
Processing and Acquisition. Kluwer, 1990.
Films:
"Out of the Mouths of Babes", Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, 1974.
"The Human Language", part II, Equinox
Films, 1994.
Papers and
Chapters:
1971
Millenson,J.R. & Dent, J.G. Habituation of
conditioned suppression. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971,23,126-134.
1972
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. Early
judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children. Journal
of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972,1,299-310.
1973
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. A cross
sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 1973,2,267-278.
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. Development
of the use of word order in comprehension. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 1973,2,331-341.
1974
de Villiers, J.G. & Naughton, J.M. Teaching a
symbol language to autistic children.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical psychology, 1974,42,111-117.
de Villiers,J.G. Quantitative aspects of agrammatism
in aphasia. Cortex, 1974,10,36-54.
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers,P.A. Competence
and performance in child language: are children really competent to judge? Journal of Child Language
,1974,1,11-22.
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. On this,
that and the other: non-egocentrism in very young children. Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology,1974,18,438-447.
1975
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. Instructors
Manual for Psychology, by Roger Brown and Richard Herrnstein,
Boston, Little-Brown,1975.
de Villiers, J.G. & Tager-Flusberg,H.B. Some
facts one simply cannot deny. Journal of Child Language,
1975,2,279-286.
1977
de Villiers, J.G. ,Tager-Flusberg, H.B. &Hakuta,
K. Deciding among theories of coordination in child speech. Papers
and Reports in Child Language Development, 1977,13,118-125.
de Villiers, J.G. Book review: Intelligence in Ape
and Man by David Premack.
Intelligence, 1977,1,401-410.
1978
de Villiers, J.G. Fourteen grammatical morphemes in
acquisition and aphasia. In A. Caramazza & E. Zurif (eds) Language Acquisition and Language
Breakdown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978.
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A., Syntax and
semantics in the first two years: the output of form and function and the form and function of the input. In
D. Minifie & L.L. Lloyd,(eds) Communicative and Cognitive
abilities: early behavioral assessment. Baltimore: University Park Press, l978.
1979
de Villiers, J.G. ,Tager-Flusberg,H.B.,Hakuta,K.
& Cohen, M. Children's comprehension of relative clauses. Journal
of Psycholinguistic Research, 1979,17,57-64.
de Villiers,P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. Form and
function in the development of sentence negation. Papers and Reports in Child Language Development,
1979,17,57-64.
1980
de Villiers, J.G. The process of rule-learning in
child speech- a new look. In K. Nelson (ed) Child Language
Volume 2. New York, Gardner Press,
1980.
1982
Tager-Flusberg,H.B.,
de Villiers, J.G. & Hakuta,K. The development of coordination.
In S.A. Kuczaj (ed) Language Development: Syntax and Semantics. Hillsdale: N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1982.
Hakuta,K.,
de Villiers, J.G. & Tager-Flusberg,H.B. Sentence coordination in Japanese and English. Journal of Child
Language, 1982,9, 193-207.
de
Villiers, J.G. Functional categories in early language. In D. Bricker,(ed) Applications
of Research Findings to Intervention
with Handicapped and At-Risk Infants. Baltimore:University
Park Press, 1982.
de
Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. Methods for the study of language acquisition. In R. Vasta (ed) Strategies
and Techniques of Child Study. N.Y.: Academic
press, 1982.
Danly,M.,
de Villiers,J.G. & Cooper,W.E. Control of prosody in Broca's aphasia.In
J. J. Wolf & D. Klatt (eds) Speech communication papers presented at the 97th meeting of the
Acoustical Association of America,N.Y.: Acoustical Association of America, 1982,259-263.
de
Villiers, J.G. Book Review: P. Fletcher & M. Garman, (eds) Language Acquisition.
Journal of Child Language, 1982,9,255-258.
1983
de Villiers,J.G. Phinney,M. & Avery, A. Understanding
passives with non-action verbs. ERIC data-base on Languages and Linguistics,
1983.
de
Villiers, J.G. Patterns of verb use in mother and child. Papers and Reports
on Child Language Development, 1983,22,43-48.
1984
de
Villiers, J.G. Form and force interactions: the development of negatives and
questions. In R. L.
Schiefelbusch & J. Pickar (eds) The Acquisition of Communicative Competence. Baltimore:
University Park Press,1984.
de
Villiers, J.G. Limited input? Limited structure. Commentary. In Monographs
of the Society for Research in
Child Development, 1984,49, Serial #207.
1985
de
Villiers, J.G. Learning how to use verbs. Journal of Child Language,
1985,12, 587- 595.
1986
de
Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. The acquisition of English. In D. Slobin (ed) Cross- linguistic
Studies of Language Acquisition.
Hillsdale,N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,1986.
1987
de
Villiers,P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. Perspective on communication: research
and remediation. In Cohen,D.J.
& Donellan,A.M. (eds) Handbook of Autism and Atypical
Development. New York: Wiley, 1987.
1988
de
Villiers, J.G. Faith, doubt and meaning. In F. Kessel, (ed) Development of
Language and Language Researchers. Hillsdale,N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.
1990
de
Villiers, J.G.,Roeper,T. & Vainikka,A. The acquisition of long distance rules. In L. Frazier and J. G. de Villiers (ed) Language
Processing and Acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer,
1990.
Frazier,L.
and de Villiers,J.G. Introduction. In L. Frazier and J. G. de Villiers (ed) Language Processing and
Acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.
1991
Roeper,
T. & de Villiers, J. G. Ordered decisions in the acquisition of
wh-questions. In H. Goodluck,
J. Weissenborn & T. Roeper (eds)Theoretical issues in language development. Hillsdale,
N.J.:Erlbaum, 1991.
de
Villiers, J.G. and Roeper,T. Introduction: the acquisition of wh- questions. In B. Plunkett and T. Maxfield (eds) The
Acquisition of wh. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics,1991
de
Villiers, J.G. Why questions? In B.
Plunkett and T. Maxfield (eds)The Acquisition of wh.University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in
Linguistics,1991.
Weissenborn,
J; Roeper, T & de Villiers, J.G. The acquisition of wh- movement in French and German.In B. Plunkett and T. Maxfield (eds)The Acquisition of wh.University of
Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics,1991.
de Villiers, J.G.
(1991) Syntactic parameter hunting: little scavengers might get lost.
Commentary on Crain. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 1991,14, 616-617.
1992
de Villiers, P.A. and de Villiers, J.G. (1992)
Language Development. In M. Bornstein and M. Lamb (eds) Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook. Lawrence
Erlbaum.
de Villiers, J.G. (1992) On the acquisition of functional categories: a general
commentary. In Meisel, J. (ed) The
acquisition of verb placement: functional categories and V2 phenomena in
language development. Dordrecht:Kluwer.
Philip,W. & de Villiers, J.G. (1992) Monotonicity and the acquisition of
weak islands. In Clark,E. (ed) Proceedings of the twenty-fourth Stanford
Child Language Conference, Stanford University CSLI.
1993
de Villiers, J.G. & Roeper,T. (1993)The emergence
of bound variable structures. In E. Reuland & W. Abraham (eds) Knowledge
and Language: Orwell's Problem and Plato's Problem.
de Villiers, J.G., Bibeau,L., Ramos, E. & Gatty,
J. (1993) Gestural communication in
oral deaf mother-child pairs. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics,14,
319-347.
1994
de Villiers, J.G.; de Villiers, P.A. and Hoban, E.
(1994) The central problem of functional categories in the English syntax of
oral deaf children. In H. Tager-Flusberg (ed) Theoretical approaches to
atypical language. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Roeper,T. & de Villiers, J.G. (1994) Lexical
links in the Wh-chain. In B.Lust, G.Hermon & J. Kornfilt (eds) Syntactic
Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives Volume II:
Binding, dependencies and learnability. Lawrence Erlbaum.
1995
de Villiers, J.G. (1995) Empty categories and complex sentences: the case of
wh-questions. In P. Fletcher and B. MacWhinney (eds) Handbook of Language
Acquisition. Blackwells.
de Villiers, J. G. (1995) Questioning minds and
answering machines. In D. MacLaughlin and Susan McEwen (eds) Proceedings of
the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla press.
Weissenborn,J., Roeper,T., & de Villiers, J.G.
(1995) Wh-acquisition in French and German: connections between
case,wh-features and unique triggers. Recherches Linguistiques
24,125-155.
de Villiers, J.G. (1995) (editor) Special issue on the acquisition of
wh-questions. Language Acquisition 4.
de Villiers, J.G. (1995) Introduction to the special issue on the acquisition of
wh-questions. Language Acquisition 4, 1-4.
de Villiers, J.G. & Roeper,T. (1995) Barriers,
binding and acquisition of the DP/NP distinction. Language Acquisition 4, 73-104.
de Villiers, J.G. & Roeper,T. (1995) Relative
clauses are barriers to Wh-movement for young children. Journal of Child
Language, 22, 389-404.
1996
de Villiers, J.G. (1996) Defining the open and closed
program for acquisition: the case of wh-questions. In M. Rice (ed) Towards a
genetics of language. Hillsdale,N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
de Villiers, J.G. (1996) Is politeness innate?
Commentary on Snow's chapter. In M. Rice (ed) Towards a genetics of
language. Hillsdale,N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Johnson, K., Bateman, S.,
Moore, D., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J.G. (1996),On the acquisition of word order in
nominals. in A. Stringfellow, D.
Cahana-Amitay,
E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (eds.),
Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Volume 1, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Gale, E., de
Villiers, P., de Villiers, J. & Pyers, J. (1996) Language and theory of
mind in oral deaf children. in A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes,
and A. Zukowski (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, Volume 1, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press.
de Villiers, J.G. & Roeper, T. (1996) Questions
after stories: supplying context and removing it as a variable. In D. McDaniel,
H. Cairns and C. McKee (eds) Methodology in child language research.
Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
1997
de Villiers, J.G. & Pyers, J. (1997)
Complementing cognition: the relationship between language and theory of mind.
In Proceedings of the 21st annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
1998
de Villiers, J.G. (1998) Mind Matters. In Peter Rose
(ed) Professorial Passions.
de Villiers, J.G., Curran, L., Philip, W. &
DeMunn, H. (1998). Acquisition of the quantificational properties of mental
predicates. In: Proceedings of the 22nd annual Boston University conference
on Language development. Cascadilla press.
1999
de Villiers. J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. (1999)
Language development. Chapter in M. Bornstein and M. Lamb (eds) Developmental
Psychology: An Advanced
Textbook. (second edition) Lawrence Erlbaum.
de Villiers, J.G. (1999) On
acquiring the structural representations for false complements. In B. Hollebrandse (ed) New
perspectives on language acquisition, UMOP.
Abdulkarim, L., Roeper, T.
& de Villiers, J. G. (1999) Negative islands in language acquisition.In B. Hollebrandse (ed) New
perspectives on language acquisition, UMOP.
2000
de Villiers. J.G. (2000)
Language and Theory of mind: what are the developmental relationships? In Baron-Cohen, S., Tager-Flusberg, H.
& Cohen, D. (eds) Understanding
other minds: perspectives from autism and developmental cognitive neuroscience. Cambridge University press.pp83-123.
de Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. (2000)
Linguistic determinism and false belief. In P. Mitchell & K. Riggs (eds) Children's
Reasoning and the Mind. Hove,U.K.: Psychology Press.
Schafer, R. & de
Villiers, J. (2000) Imagining Articles: What a and the can tell us
about the
Emergence
of DP. In Proceedings of the Boston
University Language Development conference, Somerville: Cascadilla press
2001
de Villiers, J.G. (2001) Language acquisition, point of view and possible worlds. Introduction to symposium. In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal,& B. MacWhinney (eds) Research in Child Language Acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Association for the study of child language. Somerville, Ma: Cascadilla press.
de Villiers, J.G. (2001) Extension, intension and other minds. In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal,& B. MacWhinney (eds) Research in Child Language Acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Association for the study of child language. Somerville, Ma: Cascadilla press.
Allen, B.A., de Villiers, J.G. & François, S. (2001) Deficit or difference: African American children’s linguistic paths towards a theory of mind. In M. Almgren, A. Barrena, M-J. Ezeizabarrena, I. Idiazabal,& B. MacWhinney (eds) Research in Child Language Acquisition: Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Association for the study of child language. Somerville, Ma: Cascadilla press.
de Villiers, J.G. (2001) Continuity and modularity in language acquisition and research.
In F. Wijnen, M. Verrips & L. Santelmann (eds) Annual
Review of Language
Acquisition.
2002
de Villiers, J.G. & Pyers, J. (2002) Complements to Cognition:
A longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-
understanding. Cognitive Development.
Kamawar, D., Garfield, J. & de Villiers, J.G. (2002) Difficulties with
a computational model of weak coherence as an explanation of autism.
Mind and Language.17,3, 266-272.
Schick, B., de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. (2002) Theory of Mind: Language
and Cognition in Deaf Children. Invited piece, ASHA leader.
de Villiers, J.G. (2002) Defining SLI: A linguistic perspective. In J. Schaeffer & Y. Levy
(eds) Towards a theory of SLI. Hillsdale,NJ: Erlbaum.
2003
de Villiers,J.G. and de Villiers, P.A. 2003) Language for Thought:
coming
to understand False Beliefs. In D Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow, (eds) Language in Mind: Advances in the Study
of Language and Cognition MIT press.
Seymour, H., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. (2003) The DELV-SC.(screener) The Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio.
Seymour, H., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. (2003) The DELV-CT.(Criterion-referenced version) The Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio.
de Villiers, J. G. & de Villiers, P.A. (2003) Why
not LF for false belief reasoning? A response to Carruthers, P. The cognitive functions of language. Brain and
Behavioral Sciences.
language
variation: distinguishing development and dialect from disorder. Seminars
in Speech and language (Feb 2004)
Submitted
de Villiers, J.G. (in press) Can language acquisition give children a point of view?
Chapter prepared for Proceedings of Toronto conference on Language and Theory
of Mind.
Recent presentations (last ten years):
1994
The acquisition of wh-movement out of complex NP's. Colloquium, University of Kansas, February 1994.
The acquisition of wh-movement out of complex NP's. Paper presented at GLOW workshop on theoretical
syntax and acquisition, Vienna, April 1994.
Questioning
minds and answering machines Invited
Plenary address, Boston University Conference on Language Development, November
1994.
Experimental
philosophy: why children think opaque containers are referentially transparent.
Sigma Xi luncheon talk, Smith College, November 1994
Panelist,
Genes, Intelligence and Social Policy. Smith College Forum, December
1994.
1995
Steps
in the mastery of sentence complements.
Symposium on Language and Theory of Mind, SRCD, Indianapolis, April, 1995.
Book
reading strategies in deaf mother-child dyads. Poster presented with Eliane Ramos,
16th
SRCLD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1995.
Language, reference and
truth: the child's developing consciousness of other minds. With Stanka Fitneva. Presented at Conference on
Language and Consciousness, Varna, Bulgaria, Sept 1995.
Mind Matters. Invited lecture in series Professorial Passions,
Smith College, October 1995.
Acquisition of word order
in NPs. With Kyle Johnson, Sarah
Bateman, Deanna Moore and Tom Roeper. Paper presented at the Boston University
Conference on language development, November 1995.
Language and Theory of
mind in ASL. With Elaine Gale, Jenny
Pyers and Peter de Villiers. Paper presented at the Boston University
Conference on language development, November 1995.
1996
Language for thought. Invited address, Lehigh Valley Undergraduate
conference in psychology, Lehigh University, PA. April 1996.
On the role of language
in the development of propositional attitudes. With Stanka Fitneva. In workshop,"The role of
language in event understanding", VIIth International Congress for the
Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-20 July 1996.
Language and theory of
mind. With Peter de Villiers.
Colloquium, Ontario Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, September
1996.
Language and theory of
mind. With Peter de Villiers.
Colloquium, Institute of Child development, University of Minnesota, October,
1996.
Complementing cognition:
the relationship between language and theory of mind. With Jennie Pyers. Paper presented at the 21st
annual Boston University conference on language development, November, 1996.
1997
Language for thought. Colloquium at the Psychology Department, Clark
University, Worcester, Ma. February 1997.
On reading minds and
predicting action. With Jennie
Pyers. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development,
Washington D.C, April 1997.
Linguistic determinism
and theory of mind. With Peter de
Villiers. Paper presented in symposium on Theoretical approaches to language
acquisition, at the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C, April 1997.
On acquiring the
structural representations for false complements. U.Mass conference on New Perspectives on
Acquisition, June 1997.
Do complements open
possible worlds? The view from language acquisition. Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, Durban, SA,
July 1997.
Beyond vocabulary: syntax
and discourse. Paper presented with
Peter de Villiers at Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Asilomar,
Pacific Grove, CA. August 1997.
A
longitudinal study of referential opacity.
Paper presented at 22nd
annual Boston University conference on Language development, November 1997
(With Jennie Pyers and Kimberly Broderick).
Acquisition of the quantificational properties of
mental predicates.Boston University
conference on Language development, Boston, November, 1997 (With Heather
deMunn, Laramie Curran and Bill Philip).
Complex sentence acquisition: implications for
assessment and intervention.
American Speech and Hearing Association Boston, November 21st, 1997.
Seymour, H. N., Roeper, T.,
de Villiers, J., Jackson, J., Coles, D., Ramos, E.,
Abdulkarim,
L., Johnson, V., Hall, F., and Garrett, D.
A proposed test of African
American
English syntax. Special session
presented at the Annual Convention
of American Speech- Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA, November
1997.
1998
Linguistic determinism and theory of mind .Colloquium, Cognitive Sciences, U.Mass, February 19,
1998.
Linguistic determinism and theory of mind. Colloquium, Cognitive Sciences, U. Penn., February
27, 1998.
Language for thought: false complements and false
beliefs.Whither Whorf conference,
With
Peter de Villiers, Northwestern University, June 29,1998
What’s opaque to children? Paper presented at the
U.Conn/Umass mini-conference
on Language Acquisition, October 1998, U.Mass, Amherst.
de Villiers,J.G. (October 1998) Getting at
children’s know-how: complex syntax assessment. Principal speaker, 13th annual conference on
Issues in Language and Deafness, Boystown, Omaha,NB.
de Villiers,J.G. (October 1998) Breakout session:
language and theory of mind. 13th
annual
conference on Issues in Language and Deafness, Boystown, Omaha,NB.
Johnson, V. E., de Villiers,
J. G., Seymour, H. N. Comprehension of
third person
singular
/s/ in children. Poster
session presented at the Annual Convention
of
the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association, San Antonio, TX,
November
1998.
Seymour, H. N., de Villiers,
J., Roeper, T., Jackson, J., Coles, D., Abdulkarim, L., and
Johnson,
V. Theory and practice in the study of
African American English. Seminar presented at the Annual Convention of the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Antonio, TX, November 1998.
1999
de Villiers, J.G. (March 1999) Language for thought.
Colloquium, Department of
Psychology, Berkeley, CA.
Johnson, V. E., de Villiers,
J. G., Seymour, H. N. Comprehension of
third person /s/ in
AAE and SAE speaking children. Poster Session presented at the Annual Student Day Sponsored by the School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 1999.
de Villiers, J.G. (April 1999) Symposium organizer
and discussant, Can language drive
conceptual change? Society for Research
in Child Development,
Albuquerque,N.M.
de Villiers. J. G., Segal, G.,Broderick, K. &
Feldman, J. (April 1999) A developmental
study of the referential opacity of desire
versus belief. Poster presented at the
Society
for Research in Child Development,
Albuquerque,N.M.
de Villiers, J.G. (April 1999) Developmental Psychology lunchbag talk: How
children
figure
out what’s in people’s minds. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Hollebrandse, B., Roeper, T & de Villiers, J.G. (1999) Extraction from quotation. Poster presented at IASCL, San Sebastian, Spain, July.
de Villiers,J.G., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, P.A. (1999) What every 5-year old should know: syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Presentation at ASHA, San Francisco, November.
2000
de Villiers.
J.G., de Villiers, P.A., Friedman, J., Freedman, S. and Goodrich, J. (2000)
de Villiers. P.A., de
Villiers, J.G., Friedman, J., Church, J., Gutowski, A., & Shlasko,
G. (2000) Painting the landscape of
consciousness: theory of mind and
narrative
skills in oral deaf children. Poster presentation at 21st Annual symposium on
Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
de
Villiers, J.G. and de Villiers P.A. False belief understanding: does language
help
computation or representation? Paper presented in symposium
organized by Josef
Perner, “Theory of Mind and its
detractors; what develops at 4?” XXVIIth
International Congress of psychology
Stockholm, Sweden, July, 2000.
de Villiers, P.A., de Villiers, J., Hoffmeister, R., & Schick, B.
(2000). "Theory of mind
development in signing and non-signing deaf children: the impact of
sign language on social cognition." Amsterdam, The Netherlands.7th
International Conference on
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research.July.
Schick, B.,
Hoffmeister, R., de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J. ( 2000). "ASL and theory
of mind in deaf children with deaf or hearing
parents."Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 7th International Conference on
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. July.
de Villiers, J.G. (2000) Organizer of symposium and presenter: Language and
Possible
Worlds. In Conference Language in the Mind, University of Singapore,
Singapore,
September 3-6.
de Villiers, J.G. and de Villiers, P.A. (2000), What
every child has to know: pragmatics,
semantics and syntax. Invited colloquium
University of Hong Kong, Monday,
September
11th.
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. (2000)
Language and theory of mind in signing and
non-signing
deaf children. Invited colloquium,
Chinese University, Hong Kong,
Tuesday
September 12th.
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G. (2000)
Complementing cognition: language as a
causal
variable in theory of mind development. Distinguished Speakers in Science
series,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 4th.
de Villiers, J.G. (2000) Effects of a mature theory
of mind on the acquisition of Point of
View
in language. Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand, October 3rd.
in
SAE- & AAE-Speaking Children American Speech and Hearing Association,
Washington,
D.C. November 15-21.
Jackson, J., de Villiers,
J., Green, L. & Roeper ,T. (2000) Difference Versus Disorder in
AAE:
The Role of Linguistic Theory. American Speech and Hearing Association,
Washington,
D.C. November 15-21.
de Villiers,P., de Villiers,
J., Seymour, H., Burns, F. & Pearson,B. (2000) Elicited
Production
of Critical Pragmatic Functions at Age 5. American Speech and Hearing
Association, Washington, D.C. November 15-21.
Screener.
American Speech and Hearing Association,
Washington, D.C.
November
15-21.
de Villiers, J.G. & Kamawar, D. (2000)
Acquisition of articles in SAE and AAE. Paper
presented
at the U.Mass/U.Conn workshop, Storrs CT, December 2nd.
at
Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April.
de Villiers, P.A., de Villiers, J. G., Schick,B.
& Hoffmeister, R. (2001)Language and
theory of
mind in oral and signing deaf children. Poster at Society for Research
in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April.
de Villiers, J.G., de Villiers, P.A. & Roeper, T.
(2001) Getting to the heart of what five
years
olds know about language. Massachusetts Speech and Hearing Association,
Danvers,
Ma. April 28th.
de Villiers, J.G. (2001) The case of 3rd
person /s/ in SAE and AAE. Paper
presented
at the U.Mass/U.Conn workshop, U.Mass,Amherst, May 10th.
Pearson, B., Asplin, K.,Wagner, L. & de Villiers,
J. (2001)Organization is the key:
alternative
measures of the verb lexicon. Poster presented at Wisconsin conference
on language disorders, Madison, June.
Seymour, H., de Villiers, P.A., de
Villiers, J.G. & Roeper, T. (2001) The Dialect Sensitive Language Test.
Connecticut Speech and Hearing Association, Farmington, CT. Nov 2nd
de Villiers, J.G. & Johnson, V. (2001)
The case of the disappearing 3rd person /s/. Paper
presented at the Boston University
conference on language development, Boston,
November 2-4.
Seymour,H.,
de Villiers,J.G., de Villiers, P.A., Roeper, T. Profiles from the Dialect-
Sensitive Language Screener.
Extended seminar, ASHA, New Orleans, November
15-18, 2001.
de
Villiers,J.G., de Villiers, P.A., Roeper, T.& Seymour,H., Assessing what every five-
year-old needs to know. Extended
seminar, ASHA, New Orleans, November 15-
18, 2001.
de
Villiers, J.G. & Roeper, T. What every three year old needs to know.
Extended
seminar, ASHA, New Orleans, November
15-18, 2001.
2002
de
Villiers, J.G. & de Villiers, P.A. Language for thought: coming to
understand false
beliefs. Paper in symposium Language
and Thought, AAAS meetings, Boston,
Ma. Feb. 17, 2002.
de
Villiers, J.G. Can language acquisition give children a point of view? Paper
presented
at University of Toronto
conference on Language and Theory of Mind, April,
2002.
give
you complements? Poster presented at Madison IASCL/SCRLD, July 2002
children’s concept of BE-ing. Paper in symposium on
the special features of African-American English, presented at Madison IASCL/SCRLD, July 2002
de
Villiers, J., Burns, F. & Bland-Stewart, L. Specificity constraints on
negative concord.
Paper in symposium on the special features of
African-American English. presented at
Madison IASCL/SCRLD, July 2002
concord in African-American English.
Paper in symposium on the special features
of African-American English, presented at Madison IASCL/SCRLD, July 2002
de
Villiers, J.G. The opacity of opacity. Discussion of symposium, How opaque is
opacity? presented at Madison
IASCL/SCRLD, July 2002
every five year old should know.
Rhode Island speech and Language Association,
September 2002;
de Villiers, J. G. & de Villiers,
P.A. Adventures in the assessment of African-American English. Brown University
Cognitive Science Lunchbag, October 2002.
de Villiers, J. G. Can language acquisition give children a point-of-view?
Colloquium, Linguistics department, U. Mass, Amherst. October 2002.
de Villiers, J.G. Adventures in the assessment of
African-American English. Paper presented in the UMass/UConn workshop on Language Acquisition, November 2002.
Seymour, H., Roeper, T., de Villiers, J. &
de Villiers, P. Profiles of children on
the DELV. Seminar, ASHA, Atlanta November 2002
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J. G,
Pearson, B. & Burns, F. Pragmatics
and syntax between ages 4 and 9- elicited production. Short course, ASHA,
Atlanta November 2002.
de Villiers, P.A. & de Villiers, J.G.
Language and theory of Mind: key factors in narrative development. Short
course, ASHA, Atlanta, November 2002.
de Villiers, J.G. & Roeper, T. Wh-question and quantifier results from the DELV testing. Invited participants, SLI international cooperation meeting,
Groningen, 14-15 December 2002 the
Netherlands.
2003