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Yifat Ben-Zeev

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Research Assistant. As a bilingual (Israeli Sign Language and Hebrew) I am fascinated by sign languages, working with them from various angles. In education, I teach Deaf children and youth from different backgrounds and communities (Jews, Arabs, etc.). It is fascinating to discover the cultural wealth and the variety of sign languages the children display. As a translator I work in translation for educational purposes and am
interested specifically in translation from Israeli Sign Language to the spoken language, a task which is no small feat, and am a lecturer in programs for training Israeli Sign Language interpreters.

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Itamar Kastner

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Itamar Kastner

A graduate student at New York University and formerly a research assistant at the lab. My main interest was sign language phonology, namely the way it takes form in emerging sign languages and its interplay with syntax, the structure of sentences. The way people combine sounds or signs to create meaning is a fundamental part of language, but this happens slightly differently in new sign languages. Our lab examines this using both theoretical and experimental methods.Nowadays I study the interplay of morphology and syntax, that is, the way we build up words and the way we build up sentences.

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Sarah Lanesman

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Research Assistant. I am deaf, as are my sisters. Sign language is my main and preferred mode of communication in all aspects of life. I have an MA degree from the University of Central Lancshire, Preston, UK. My thesis is titled: “Algerian Jewish Sign Language: its emergence and survival”, supervized by Prof. Ulrike Zeshan and Dr. Irit Meir. This is the first publication and documentation of this endangered language. In the sign language research lab I was involved in several projects: The history of ISL, Village sign languages of Israel and Algerian Jewish Sign Language.

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Gal Belzitsman

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Email: galbel84@gmail.com Research Assistant. I studied linguistics at Tel aviv University, where I was also working as a research assistant at the lab of Prof. Ruth Berman for 3 years.…

Books

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Books Meir, Irit, and Wendy Sandler (2004). safa bamerxav: eshnav le- sfat hasimanim hayisraelit (Language in Space: a Window onto Israeli Sign Language). Haifa, University of Haifa Press. (in Hebrew). …

Anne Marie Baer

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Email: annemariebaer@gmail.com I am a native American Sign Language user, born and raised in the Deaf American community. I attended two Deaf ASL schools before enrolling at Gallaudet University,…

Tamar Halutzi

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Email: tamarhalutzi@hotmail.com I am a BA student in General linguistics at Tel Aviv University. For several years, I worked as an educational interpreter in integrated high schools for deaf…

Rama Novogrodsky

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Email: ramanovo@gmail.com My research focuses on the interaction between language development and cognitive development and how different components of language (such as syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics) disassociate and…

Hope E. Morgan

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Email: hmorga01@campus.haifa.ac.ilPost-doctoral researcher. I completed my PhD at the University of California San Diego in 2017, writing a phonological grammar of Kenyan Sign Language. My research primarily focuses on the…

Kate Mesh

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Email: kate.a.mesh@gmail.com My research focus is on the use of gestures by hearing and deaf people who inhabit the same community. I investigate how signers adapt conventional gestural practices of…