Anat Ninio's important new book places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. The focus is on the characteristics of the linguistic input and resultant output, which, she shows, are surprisingly similar in their global features. This book presents a highly novel perspective on the acquisition of syntax, one which will be required reading for those in the field of developmental psycholinguistics.

Anat Ninio graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a Ph.D. in Psychology for which she studied under the supervision of Professor Daniel Kahneman. She spent a year of post-doctoral studies with Professor Jerome Bruner at Oxford, studying early language development. Anat Nino has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University since 1970 where she now holds a professorship, she has spent sabbatical years as a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Professor at Duke University, the New School for Social Research in New York, New York University, the University of Quebec, Montreal, Harvard University, and Macquarie University. She has served as the Chair of the Graduate Developmental Program, and as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Hebrew University. Anat Nino is an Associate of Behavioural and Brain Sciences and a member of the Unesco Institute for Education Exchange Network on Functional Literacy in Industrialized Countries.