Biography:Jill de Villiers
Jill de Villiers | |
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| Occupation | Professor Emerita of Psychology and Philosophy |
| Awards | Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018) |
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| Alma mater | University of Reading; Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Smith College |
Jill G. de Villiers (born 1948) is a developmental psychologist known for her work in the field of language acquisition.[1] She is the Sophia and Austin Smith Professor Emerita of Psychology and Philosophy at Smith College.[2] 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.[1]
de Villiers and her colleagues have developed critical tools for language assessment including the Quick Interactive Language Screener (QUILS),[3] which is a computerized preschool language assessment, and the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (DELV), which aims to provide assessment for speakers of English dialects such as African-American English.[4][5]
Biography
de Villiers completed her B.S. degree in psychology from the University of Reading in 1969.[2] She attended graduate school at Harvard University where she obtained her Ph.D in experimental psychology at 1974 under the supervision of Roger Brown.[6] After graduating, she taught at Harvard University for 8 years before moving to Smith College in 1971. At Smith, she received the Honored Professor award in 2003 and the Faculty Teaching award in 2002.[2]
de Villiers work focuses on language acquisition, with a specific focus on young children's ability to use words and sentences to communicate with others. Her many contributions include studies of language acquisition in oral deaf children[7] and relationships between language development and theory of mind.[8][9] de Villiers' research has been funded by the March of Dimes,[10] National Science Foundation,[11] the Institute of Education Sciences,[12] and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.[13]
Books
- de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (1978). Language acquisitions . Harvard University Press.
- de Villiers, J., & Roeper, T. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of generative approaches to language acquisition. Springer Science & Business Media.
Representative publications
- de Villiers, J. G. (2007). The interface of language and theory of mind. Lingua , 117 (11), 1858–1878.
- de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (1973). A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2(3), 267–278.
- de Villiers, J. G., & de Villiers, P. A. (1973). Development of the use of word order in comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2(4), 331–341.
- de Villiers, J. G., Flusberg, H. B. T., Hakuta, K., & Cohen, M. (1979). Children's comprehension of relative clauses. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 8(5), 499–518.
- de Villiers, J. G., & Pyers, J. E. (2002). Complements to cognition: A longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding. Cognitive Development , 17 (1), 1037–1060.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jill G. de Villiers" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/jill-g-de-villiers.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Jill de Villiers" (in en). https://www.smith.edu/people/jill-de-villiers.
- ↑ Reighard, Jessica. "Learn more about the team of experts behind QUILS" (in en-US). https://quilscreener.com/authors/.
- ↑ Learning, Ventris. "DELV™" (in en-US). https://www.ventrislearning.com/delv/.
- ↑ de Villiers, Jill (2003). Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Criterion Referenced: Record Forms, 25. ISBN 978-0158092034.
- ↑ The Development of language and language researchers : essays in honor of Roger Brown. Brown, Roger, 1925–1997., Kessel, Frank S.. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates. 1988. ISBN 0-89859-906-7. OCLC 16682085. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16682085.
- ↑ Schick, Brenda; Villiers, Peter De; Villiers, Jill De; Hoffmeister, Robert (2007). "Language and Theory of Mind: A Study of Deaf Children" (in en). Child Development 78 (2): 376–396. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01004.x. ISSN 1467-8624. PMID 17381779. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01004.x.
- ↑ de Villiers, Jill G.; de Villiers, Peter A. (2014). "The Role of Language in Theory of Mind Development" (in en). Topics in Language Disorders 34 (4): 313–328. doi:10.1097/TLD.0000000000000037. ISSN 0271-8294. http://journals.lww.com/00011363-201410000-00005.
- ↑ "Can Language Acquisition Give Children a Point of View? - Oxford Scholarship". doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159912.003.0010. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com//mobile/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159912.001.0001/acprof-9780195159912-chapter-10.
- ↑ de Villiers, Jill; Bibeau, Lynne; Ramos, Eliane; Gatty, Janice (1993). "Gestural communication in oral deaf mother-child pairs: Language with a helping hand?" (in en). Applied Psycholinguistics 14 (3): 319–347. doi:10.1017/S0142716400010821. ISSN 1469-1817. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/gestural-communication-in-oral-deaf-motherchild-pairs-language-with-a-helping-hand/BE2202C2A742FF364E7474782D2FCE7E.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#0527509 - Epistemology and Indexicality in English, Tibetan and Navajo". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0527509.
- ↑ "Inside IES Research | Computerized Preschool Language Assessment Extends to Toddlers". https://ies.ed.gov/blogs/research/post/computerized-preschool-language-assessment-extends-to-toddlers.
- ↑ Schick, Brenda; de Villiers, Peter; de Villiers, Jill; Hoffmeister, Robert (2007). "Language and Theory of Mind: A Study of Deaf Children" (in en). Child Development 78 (2): 376–396. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01004.x. ISSN 0009-3920. PMID 17381779. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01004.x.
External links
- Faculty Homepage
- Jill de Villiers publications indexed by Google Scholar
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