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Jean Berko Gleason Curriculum Vitae Jean Berko Gleason Curriculum Vitae Biographical Summary Jean Berko Gleason is one of the world’s leading experts on children’s language. She currently is professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and is also a faculty member and former director of BU's Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Harvard, and the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard/Radcliffe. She has been president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and is the author and editor of leading textbooks on language development and psycholinguistics. She created the Wug Test, the best known experimental study of children’s language acquisition. She has published more than 125 articles on aphasia, language attrition, language development in children, gender differences in parents' speech, and cross-cultural differences. Her work is frequently cited in the professional literature, and has been featured in the popular press and on television. She is currently featured in the PBS award-winning online Nova Science Now series “The Secret Life of Scientists” as well as on the Web at the World Science Festival. Office: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 64 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215 http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/ Contact: Phone: (617) 864-5095 Email preferred: [email protected] Education: A.B. History and Literature, cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1953 A.M. Linguistics, Radcliffe College, 1955 Ph.D. Linguistics and Social Psychology, Radcliffe-Harvard, 1958 Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 1958-59 Occupation: 2005- Professor Emerita, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University 1975-2005: Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston University Department Chair 1985-89; Acting Chair, spring 1997 1975- Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, BU: Progam Director 1982-85 Other Professional Experience 1994-2005: Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, BU 1997-2001: Director, Graduate Program in Human Development, Department of Psychology 1961-2000: Research Associate, Goodglass Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, USVA Medical Center, Boston 1991, 1999: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education 1987-94: Board of Trustees, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. 1981-85: Member, Mental Retardation Research Committee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Washington Spring '81, '83, 1 Winter '88: Research Scholar in Residence, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1982-1985: Director, Graduate Program for the Study of Language Behavior, Boston University 1975-78, 1983-85: Director, Graduate Program in Developmental Psychology, Boston University 1973-1974: Visiting Scholar, Linguistics Department, Stanford University 1972-1975: Visiting Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston University 1970-1972: Principal Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 1969-1970: Research Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Education Boston University Committees: (various years) Chair, Academic Policy Committee; University Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; College of Liberal Arts Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee; University Fellowships Committee; University Committee on Patents and Inventions; University Lecturer Committee; College of Liberal Arts Executive Committee; Nominating Committee; Administrative & faculty search committees. Honors and Biographical Listings Academy of Aphasia, elected member American Psychological Association, elected Fellow 1978 American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected Fellow 1982 Phi Beta Kappa, (President, Radcliffe's Iota of Massachusetts, 1965-68) Editor's Award, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1970. Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, elected 1991 University Lecturer, Boston University, 1992 Featured in S. Griffiths (Ed.) Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World. Manchester University Press, 1996, 110-116. Featured in J. H. Keith. The Inside Word. Bostonia, summer 1999, 24-27. Festschrift: L. Menn & N. Bernstein Ratner, (Eds.). Methods for Studying Language Production, Erlbaum, 1999 Women in Linguistics: Celebrating 25 Years of COSWL, 2000. One of 5 linguists honored at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics. Who's Who in America 2014 Cleveland Heights High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Award 2013 Professional Society Membership and Service American Association for the Advancement of Science (Elected Fellow 1982) Council Delegate from the section on Linguistics and Language Science, 2002-2005 International Association for the Study of Child Language (President 1990-1993) American Psychological Association (Elected Fellow 1978) Linguistic Society of America (Chair, Program Committee 1979-81) (Delegate to the Section on Neurosciences, AAAS 1997-1999) Rules Committee Chair for the 2004 meeting. Academy of Aphasia (Membership Committee 1977-87) Invited luncheon speaker, annual meeting 2002 Society for Research in Child Development Radcliffe Graduate Society (President 1971-73) (Chair Society Medal Committee 1992) Gypsy Lore Society (Executive Board 1982-87; 1991-02; 2003-2006 ) (President 1996-1999) Editorial work: 2 Discourse Processes, Editorial Board, 1982-2002 Multilingual Matters, Editorial Board, 2000-present TILAR Topics in Language Acquisition Research, Board 2002-2006, 2009-present Language, Associate Editor, 1997-1999 Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, Editorial Board 1972-74 Child Development, Editorial Board 1971-77 Applied Psycholinguistics, Editorial Board, 1982-2002 Consulting Reviews: Psychological Bulletin; Cognitive Psychology; American Psychologist; Language; Developmental Psychology; Language and Speech; Journal of Speech and Hearing Research; Journal of Child Language; Harvard University Press; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Little, Brown & Company; Allyn & Bacon; Random House, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, York Press, and many others. Grant Reviews: Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Council of Canada; Binational Foundation (Israel); National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Health; Radcliffe Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH), Marsden Fund (New Zealand), and others. Grant support; Fellowships Graduate Fellowships from: Radcliffe College; The Ford Foundation; The Social Sciences Research Council; American Association of University Women; Postdoctoral Fellowship: National Institute of Mental Health Research Support: Studies in the Acquisition of Communicative Competence, BNS 75-21009 and 21909A01, National Science Foundation, 1977-80. The Ontogeny of Personal Style. Boston University Graduate School, 1977. Travel fellowships from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) 1981 Principal Investigator: Graduate Training in Developmental Psychology, NIMH, 1975-78; 1982-85. Lexical, Social, and Affective Language Development, NICHD l P0l HD23388, 1988-1993. NIH Toolbox Team Member 2009-2012 (Various funding sources) Publications: Berko, J. (1958). The Child's Learning of English Morphology. Word, 14, 150-177. a. Reprinted in S. Saporta (Ed.), (1961). Psycholinguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. b. Reprinted by Bobbs-Merrill, as number P-614 of the Bobbs-Merrill Reprints in the Social Sciences, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. c. Reprinted in W. J. Meyer. (1967). Readings in the Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence. Blaisdell Publishing Company. d. Reprinted in A. Bar-Adon and W. Leopold (Eds.) (1971). Child Language: A Book of Readings. Prentice-Hall. e. Reprinted in German in W. Eichler and A. Hofer (Eds.) (1974). Spracherwerb und linguistische Theorien. Munich: R. Piper & Co. Verlag. f. Reprinted in M. Eson and J. Wilkinson (Eds.) (1975). Studies for Replication in Child Development. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. g. Reprinted in G. Deutsch (Ed.) (1976). "Infancy and Early Childhood," Department of Independent Study by Correspondence, The Pennsylvania State University. h. Reprinted in L. Bloom (Ed.) (1978). Readings in Language Development. Wiley. 3 i. Reprinted in B. Lust & C. Foley (Eds.) (2004) First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell. j. Reprinted in David A. Balota & Elizabeth J. Marsh (Eds.) (2004) Cognitive Psychology: Key Readings. New York: Psychology Press, 523-538. k. Reprinted in Francis Katamba (Ed.) (2005). Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. London: Routledge, 208-231. Berko, J. (1960). Review of W. Kaper, Kindersprachforschung mit Hilfe des Kindes. Word, 16, 287-290. Berko, J., & Brown, R. (1960). Psycholinguistic Research Methods. In P. Mussen (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Child Development. New York: Wiley. Brown, R., & Berko, J. (1960). Word Association and the acquisition of grammar. Child Development, 31, 1-14. a.. Reprinted in D. Palermo and L. Lipsitt (Eds.) (1963). Research Readings in Child Psychology, New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston. b. Reprinted in German in W. Eichler and E. Hofer (Eds.) (1974). Spracherwerb und linguistische Theorien. Munich: R. Piper & Co. Verlag (several additional
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