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JEAN BERKO GLEASON

2005- Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, Boston
University
1975- Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, (Program
Director 1982-85)
1994- : Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural
Systems, BU

Psychology Department page: http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/gleason/

Current Affiliations

1994-present: Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University.

1961-present: Research Associate, Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, USVA Medical Center, Boston 02130.

Research Interests

Lexical development, aphasia, developmental sociolinguistics

Recent Publications

    Gleason, J. Berko, Ely, R., Phillips, B., & Zaretsky, E. (In press).
    Alligators all around: The acquisition of animal terms in English and
    Russian. In D. Guo & E. Lieven (Eds.) /Crosslinguistic Approaches to
    the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac
    Slobin/. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Gleason, J. Berko (In press). Regularization. In:* *Patrick Colm Hogan
    (Ed.) /The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.
    /Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

    Gleason, J. Berko & Ratner, Nan Bernstein (Eds.) (In press.) /The
    Development of Language, 7th Edition. /Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.

    Harris, C. H., Gleason, J. Berko & Aycicegi, A. (2006). When is a
    first language more emotional? Psychophysiological evidence from
    bilingual speakers. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.) /Bilingual minds: Emotional
    experience, expression, and representation/. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual
    Matters, 257-283.

    Ely, R., & Gleason, J. Berko. (2006). I'm sorry I said that: Apologies
    in young children=s discourse. /Journal of Child Language, 33, /599-620.

    Gleason, J. Berko & Ely, R. (2005). Gender differences in language
    development: Interactional effects. In B. Bokus, (Ed.) /Studies in
    the Psychology of Child Language (in Honor of Grace Wales Shugar)
    /Warsaw: Matrix, 249-263.

    Berko, J. (2004). The Child's Learning of English Morphology.
    Reprinted in B. Lust & C. Foley (Eds.) First Language Acquisition: The
    Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell,
    253-273.

    Harris, C.H., Aycicegi, A., & Gleason, J. Berko (2003). Taboo Words
    and Reprimands Elicit Greater Autonomic Reactivity in a First than in a
    Second Language. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 561-579.

    Bernstein Ratner, Nan & Gleason, J. Berko (2003). Psycholinguistics. In
    G. Adelman & B. H. Smith (Eds). Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd
    edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (CD-ROM).

    Gleason, J. Berko ( 2003). Language Acquisition: Is it Like Learning to
    Walk, or Learning to Play the Piano? Contemporary Psychology, 48, 2,
    172-174.

    Gleason, J. Berko & Thompson, R. B. (2002). Out of the Baby Book and
    into the Computer: Child Language Research Comes of Age. Contemporary
    Psychology, APA Review of Books, 47, 4, 391-394.

    Ely, R., Gleason, J. Berko, MacGibbon, A., & Zaretsky, E. (2001).
    Attention to Language: Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table. Social
    Development, 10, 3, 355-373.

    Gleason, J. Berko & Zaretsky, E. (2001). Language Acquisition.
    Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. New York: Macmillan
    Reference.

    Thompson, R. B., & Gleason, J. Berko (2001). Review of D. Crystal,
    Language Death, Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 2, 263-273.

    Gleason, J. Berko & Ely, R. (2001) Gender Differences in Language
    Development. In
    A. V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi & R. De Lisi (Eds.), Biology, society, and
    behavior: The development of sex differences in cognition. Greenwich,
    CT: Ablex, 127-154.

    Goodglass, H., Wingfield, A., Hyde, M. R., Gleason, J. Berko, & Ward,
    S. E. (2001). Aphasics' access to nouns and verbs: Discourse Vs.
    confrontation naming. Brain and Language, 79, 1, 148-150.

     

 

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