Dorit Diskin Ravid (Hebrew: דורית רביד; born 1952)[1] is a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University, specializing in psycholinguistics with a focus on language acquisition.
[2][3] Ravid’s early studies were carried out under the mentorship of Ruth A.
[3] Before this, in 2005, she was awarded an International Francqui Chair at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
[3] In 2022 she was the recipient of a festschrift, Developing Language and Literacy: Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid.
[8] Her 1995 book Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew investigated variation and change in ten different groups of Modern Hebrew speakers, taking into account age, level of education, and socio-economic status, leading her to propose that the development of literacy goes hand in hand with cognitive maturation; the book has been described as pathbreaking.