Dr. phil. Miriam Dittmar

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Kognitive Entwicklung und frühkindlicher Spracherwerb

Kurzvita

2001	Magister in Germanistik, Georg August Universität Göttingen
2003	Diplom in Biologie, Georg August Universität Göttingen
2004-2007	Dissertation am Insitut für vergleichende und Entwicklungspsycholgie, Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
2007-2011 seit 2011	Assistentin, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich Postdoktorandin, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich (UZH Forschungskredit)

Publikationen

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (submitted). Familiar verbs are not easier than novel verbs: How German pre-school children comprehend active and passive sentences.

Bertin, E. & Dittmar, M. (submitted). Infants' knowledge about rigid and compressible objects in containment events: Evidence from an action task.

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Children aged 2;1-year use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. Journal of Child Language, 38, 1109-1123.

Dittmar, M. (2010). Acquiring the transitive construction: The development of understanding word order and case marking cues. Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2008). German
children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative
sentences. Child Development, 79(4), 1152 - 1167.

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Young
German children’s early syntactic competence: A preferential looking study.
Developmental Science, 11(4), 575 - 582.

Dittmar, M. (2003). Der Einfluss neuartiger Umweltsituationen auf das individuelle Explorationsverhalten sozial lebender Weissbüschelaffen (Callithrix jacchus). Unpublished manuscript. Göttingen University, Germany

Präsentationen

Dittmar, M., Abott-Smith, K., Durrant, S. & Tomasello, M. (2010): Priming or practice? Frequency or reverse frequency effects in how English children comprehend full passives. Poster presented at the Child Language Seminar (CLS), London, UK. June 23-25, 2010.

Bertin, E. & Dittmar, M. (2010). Infants’ knowledge about rigid and compressible objects in containment events: Evidence from an action task. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Baltimore, US. March 10-14, 2010.

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Comprehension of case marking and word order cues in the acquisition of German. Poster presented at the Child Language Seminar 2006, Newcastle, UK. July 19-21, 2006

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Comprehension of case marking and word order cues by German preschoolers. Poster presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (workshop on on-line methods in children's language processing), New York, US. March 23-25, 2006

Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., & Tomasello, M. (2005). Acquiring the German transitive: pointing and looking measures. Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development 30, Boston, US. November 4-6, 2005

Vorträge

Dittmar, M., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Young German children's early syntactic competence: A preferential looking study. Paper presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 32), Boston, US. November 2-4, 2007

Abbot-Smith, K., Dittmar, M., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Frequency and reverse frequency effects in the acquisition of the German eventive passive. Paper presented at the Child Language Seminar (CLS), Reading, UK. July 18-20, 2007

Dittmar, M., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. Paper presented at the Child Language Seminar 2007, Reading, UK. July 18-20, 2007

Dittmar, M. (2007). Young children's comprehension of the transitive construction. Nant Gwrtheyrn, UK. March 8-10, 2007