Omar, N., Nir, B., & Banai, K. (2025). Effects of systematicity on word learning in preschool children: The case of Semitic morpho-phonology. Language and Speech. Advance online publication.

Hansen, M. B., Nir, B., Simonin, C., & Veneziano, E. (2025). In their own words: Pre-school children’s verbalizations of the appearance–reality distinction. Language Learning and Development, 21(4), 439–463.

Mordechay, D. S., Eviatar, Z., & Nir, B. (2024). Emotional engagement in expressive writing: Clinical and discursive perspectives. Narrative Inquiry, 34(1), 191–223.

Nir, B., & Sher-Censor, E. (2024). Integrating attachment and linguistic perspectives on the coherence of narratives regarding close relationships: A qualitative illustration. Acta Psychologica, 246, 104242.

Levy, M., Housh, M., Hartman, A., Ayalon, O., Nir, B., Ostfeld, A., & Hadar, I. (2024). Muddy waters: Design thinking for understanding the multi-organizational problem space of the water sector. Sustainability, 16(22), 9819.

Nathaniel, U., Eidelsztein, S., Geskin, K. G., Yamasaki, B. L., Nir, B., Dronjic, V., Booth, J. R., & Bitan, T. (2024). Neural mechanisms of learning and consolidation of morphologically derived words in a novel language: Evidence from Hebrew speakers. Neurobiology of Language, 5(4), 864–900.

Omar, N., Banai, K., & Nir, B. (2024). When more is less: The impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning. Language and Cognition, 16(4), 1852–1880.

Cohen, O. & Nir, B. (2023). A hidden Nusach: The linguistic literacy of the Maharam Lublin. Journal of Jewish Studies 74(2), 382-407.

Nir, B. & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2023). Should s/he stay or should s/he go: Alliances and rapport in child-caregiver-therapist SLT sessions. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 14(3), 430-455.

Cohen-Koka, S., Nir, B., & Meir, I. (2023). The case of Mouth Action in Israeli Sign Language discourse. Sign Language Studies, 23(2), 197-242.

Cohen-Koka, S., Nir, B., & Meir, I. (2022). Linguistic Variation, Discourse Analysis, and Deaf Education: Case Studies from ISL. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enac030

Tenenbaum, R., Yifat, R., & Nir, B. (2022). Early intervention for children with developmental intellectual disability. In El-Yagon, M., & Margalit, M. (Eds.), Developmental intellectual disability: Theory, research, and practical application. Shalem foundation. [in Hebrew]

Khatteb-Abu Liel, A., Ibrahim, R., Nir, B. & Eviatar, Z., (2022). Reading and Writing in a Diglossic Context: A Multifaceted Perspective. In E. Saiegh-Haddad, L. Laks, C. McBride (Eds.), Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and Dialectal Contexts – Psycholinguistic and Educational Perspectives (pp. 303-357). Springer.

Gleitman, M. & Nir, B. (2022): “Where did you go to?” recognizing child agency as it emerges dynamically in interaction. Mind, Culture, and Activity. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XFEG6MIRPF3P9ECQQPGA/full?target=10.1080/10749039.2022.2133143

Sabo Mordechay, D., Eviatar, Z., & Nir, B. (2021). Emotional Engagement in Expressive Writing: Clinical and discursive perspectives. Narrative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20051.sab

Omar, N., Banai, K., & Nir, B. (2021). Learning beyond words: Morphology and the encoding of hierarchical categories. The Mental Lexicon, 16.2-3 (2021): 397-421. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.20030.oma

Omar, F., Henkin, R., & Nir, B. (2021). So what would they say in Kafr Kanna: Would be helping him or helped him? Special issue of DASH BARESHET, the Israeli journal of language, speech and Hearing disorders, 40. [in Hebrew]

Blechner, L., & Nir, B. (2021). The impact of elicitation method on pre-school children's narrative productions. Special issue of DASH BARESHET, the Israeli journal of language, speech and Hearing disorders, 40. [in Hebrew]

Tenenbaum, R., Yifat, R., & Nir, B. (2021). What does Boom look like? Toddlers' use of gesture in shared book-reading. Special issue of DASH BARESHET, the Israeli journal of language, speech and Hearing disorders, 40. [in Hebrew]

Khatteb-Abu Liel, A., Eviatar, Z., & Nir, B. (2021). Arab adolescents’ attitudes towards standard and nonstandard writing systems the case of Arabizi and Modern Standard Arabic. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5, 125–142. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41809-020-00057-2

Nir B. (2020). A usage-based typology of Modern Hebrew syntax: How Semitic? In Berman, R. A. (Ed.), Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew. Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax (pp. 659-676). John Benjamins Publishing.

Banai, K., Nir, B., Moav-Scheff, R., & Bar-Ziv, N. (2020). A role for incidental auditory learning in auditory-visual word learning among kindergarten children. Journal of Vision, 20(3):4, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1167/jovi.20.3.4

Nir, B. (2020). Event Representation. In Östman, J. O., Verschueren, J. (Eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing.

Yamasaki, B., Bitan, T., Dronjic, V., Nathaniel, U., Lytle, M., Eidelsztein, S., Nir, B. & Booth, J. (2019, October 14). The role of prior knowledge in morphological learning in an artificial second language. Language Learning https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ez79s

Nir, B., Abramovich-Mayost, I., & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2019). Balancing institutional authority and children's agency: The Hebrew verb lircot [to want] in Speech Language Therapy sessions. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 10(2), 153–178. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.20365

Nir, B. (2019). Morpho-syntax and language development: diacrony, synchrony and evolution. In Berman, R.A. (Ed.), Language change and language variation (pp. 187-205). The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. [in Hebrew]

Khatteb-Abu Liel, A. Eviatar, Z., & Nir, B. (2019). Writing between languages: the case of Arabizi. Writing Systems Research, 11(2), 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1814482

Sabo Mordechay, D., Nir, B. & Eviatar, Z. (2019). Expressive writing-Who is it good for? Individual differences in the improvement of mental health resulting from expressive writing. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 37, 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2019.101064

Nir, B. (2017). Resonance as a resource for stance-taking in narratives. Functions of Language, 24(1), 94-120. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.24.1.05nir

Nir, B. & Zima, E. (2017). The power of engagement: Stance-taking, dialogic resonance and the construction of intersubjectivity. Functions of Language, 24(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.24.1.01nir

Nir, B. (2016). Development of Intra- and Inter-Clausal Dependency in Hebrew. In Berman, R. A. (Ed.), Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence (pp. 259-294). John Benjamins Publishing.

Nir, B. (2016). Clause combining across grammars: A contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 construal of discourse organization. In Hilpert, M., & Östman, J-O. (Eds.), Constructions across Grammars (pp. 97-130). John Benjamins Publishing.

Nir, B., & Katzenberger, I. (2016). Categories of referential content in expository discussions of conflict. In Perera, J., Aparici, M., Rosado, E., & Salas, N. (Eds.), Written and Spoken Language Development Across the Lifespan: Essays in Honour of Liliana Tolchinsky (pp. 271-285). Springer.

Nir, B. (2015). Frames for clause combining. Constructions and Frames, 7(2), 348-379. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.7.2.07nir

Nir, B. (2014). Clause combining across grammars: A contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 construal of discourse organization. Constructions and Frames, 6(2), 232-265. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.6.2.05nir

Nir, B., Dori-Hacohen, G., & Maschler, Y. (2014). Formulations on Israeli political talk radio: From actions and sequences to stance via dialogic resonance. Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445613519525

Kol, S., Nir, B., & Wintner, S. (2014). Computational evaluation of the Traceback method. Journal of Child Language, 41, 176-199. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000912000694

Maschler, Y. & Nir, B. (2014). Complementation in linear and dialogic syntax:  The case of Hebrew divergently aligned discourse. Cognitive Linguistics, 25(3), 523-557. [Special issue on Dialogic Syntax, edited by John Du Bois and Rachel Giora] https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2014-0029

Schwarz, M., Nir, B., M. Leikin, R. Levie, & Ravid, D. (2014). Acquisition of noun plurals among early sequential Russian-Hebrew speaking bilinguals: A longitudinal multiple case study. Heritage Language Journal, 11(2), 151-185. https://brill.com/view/journals/hlj/11/2/article-p151_3.xml

Tribushinina, E., van den Bergh, H., Ravid, D., Aksu-Koç, A., Kilani-Schoch, M., Korecky-Kröll, K., Leibovitch-Cohen, I., Laaha, S. Nir, B., Dressler, W.U., & Gillis, S. (2014). Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes: A growth curve analysis of child speech and child-directed speech. Language, Interaction and Acquisition/Langage, Interaction et Acquisition, 5(2), 185-226. https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.5.2.02tri

Albert, A., MacWhinney, B., Nir, B. & Wintner, S. (2013). The Hebrew CHILDES Corpus Transcription and Morphological Analysis. Language Resources and Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-012-9214-z

Gretz, S., Itai, A., MacWhinney, B., Nir, B., Wintner, S. (2013). Parsing Hebrew CHILDES Transcripts. Language Resources and Evaluation. https: //doi.org/10.1007/s10579-013-9256-x

Albert, A., Nir, B., MacWhinney, B., and Wintner, S. (2012). A morphologically annotated Hebrew CHILDES corpus. In proceedings of the EACL-2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss. https://aclanthology.org/W12-0904.pdf

Nir, B. (2012). Complementizers in Hebrew. In G. Khan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Brill Academic Publishers.

Nir, B. (2012). Hebrew Text Linguistics. In G. Khan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Brill Academic Publishers.

Berman R. A. & Nir, B. (2011). Adverbs in Modern Hebrew: Text-based perspective. In R. Burstain (Ed.), Festschrift in honor of Prof. Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot. [Special issue of Chelkat Lashon, in Hebrew].

Nir, B. (2011). Hebrew adverbs: A Construction Grammar approach. In proceedings of The 26^th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Linguistic Society. [in Hebrew]

Berman R. A. & Nir, B. (2011). Spoken language / Written language across adolescence. In Ofra Korat & D. Aram (Eds.), Literacy and language: Interactions, bilingualism and difficulties; Festschrift in Honor of Iris Levin, Volume I (pp. 211-229). Magnes Press.

Nir, B. & Berman, R. A. (2010). Parts of speech as constructions: the case of Hebrew ‘adverbs’. Grammar and interaction. New directions in constructional research. Constructions and Frames, 2(2), 242-274. [Special issue in honor of Charles J. Fillmore, edited by Kiki Nikiforidou and Kyoko Ohara] https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.2.2.05nir

Nir, B. & Berman, R. A. (2010). Complex syntax as a window on contrastive rhetoric. Journal of Pragmatics, 42, 744–765, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.07.006

Berman, R. A. & Nir, B. (2010). The lexicon in speech-writing differentiation: Developmental perspectives. Written Language & Literacy, 13(2), 183-205 https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.13.2.01ber

Nir, B., MacWhinney, B. & Wintner, S. (2010). A morphologically-analyzed CHILDES corpus of Hebrew. In proceedings of LREC-2010. http://lrec.elra.info/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/172_Paper.pdf

Berman, R. A. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2009). Clause-packaging in narratives:  A crosslinguistic developmental study.  In Jiansheng Guo, Elena Lieven, Suzan Ervin-Tripp, Nancy Budwig, Seyda Özçalişkan, Kei Nakamura (eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language:  Research in the tradition of Dan I. Slobin (pp. 149-162). Taylor & Francis.

Segall, O., Nir-Sagiv, B., Kishon-Rabin, L. & Ravid, D. (2009). Prosodic patterns in Hebrew child directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 36(3), 629-656. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500090800915X

Berman, R. A. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2009). “The language of expository texts”. In Marilyn A. Nippold & Cheryl M. Scott (eds.), Expository discourse in children, adolescents, and adults: Development and disorders (pp. 101-123). Psychology Press/Taylor and Francis.

Berman, R. A. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2009). “Cognitive and linguistic factors in evaluating text quality: Global versus local?” In Vyv Evans & Stéphanie Pourcel (eds.), New directions in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 421-440). John Benjamins Publishing.

Ravid, D., Dressler, W.U., Nir-Sagiv, B., Korecky-Kröll, K., Souman, A., Rehfeldt, K., Laaha, S., Bertl, J., Basbøll, H. & Gillis, S. (2008). Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals. In Heike Behrens (ed.) TILAR Series No 6. Trends in Corpus Research (pp. 25-60). John Benjamins Publishing.

Nir-Sagiv, B., Shternau, M., Berman, R. A. & Ravid, D. (2008). Development of linguistic register in the school-age as a distinguishing factor across modality (writing / speech) and genre (expository / narrative). Literacy and Language, 1, 71-103. [In Hebrew]

Nir-Sagiv, B., Bar Ilan, L. & Berman, R. A. (2008). Vocabulary development across adolescence: Text-based analy¬ses. In Anat Stavans & Irit Kupferberg (eds.), Studies in language and language education: Essays in honor of Elite Olshtain [New Vistas in Education and Society Series, NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education] (pp. 47-74). Magnes Press.

Berman, R. A., Lustigman, L. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2008). Discourse analysis as a window on later language development. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 1, 10-47. [in Hebrew]

Berman, R. A. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2007). Comparing narrative and expository text construction across adolescence: Developmental paradoxes”. Discourse Processes, 43(2), 79-120.

Berman, R. A. & Nir-Sagiv, B. (2004). Linguistic indicators of inter-genre differentiation in later language development.  Journal of Child Language, 31, 339-380.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000904006038