Irit Meir
imeir@univ.haifa.ac.il I am a faculty member in the Department of Hebrew Language and the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Haifa, and the associate director of…
Federica Cavicchio
Email: federica.cavicchio@gmail.com After completing my Ph.D from the Universita' degli studi di Trento (Italy) in Cognitive Neuroscience, with a thesis on computational aspects of emotion and cooperation (under the supervision of…
Muneera Abu Roken
Email: maburoke@campus.haifa.ac.il I have been studying different languages all my life, but I only discovered my interest in linguistics after taking a seminar course in Pidgins and Creoles as part of…
Shai Davidi
Shai DavidiEmail: sdavidi@univ.haifa.ac.ilVideo technician. In the lab, I act as a one-stop shop for all video needs. I manage the entire video production process, from capturing high-quality footage in the…
Calle Börstell
Calle Börstell During my time as a research assistant in 2012, I worked mainly on annotating and analyzing ABSL data for various projects. Some of that data was subsequently used…
Debby Menashe
Debby Menashe
Email: dbjewelry@gmail.com
I started working as a research assistant in the lab in 1998. My work is on Israeli Sign Language (ISL) since it is my native language (I was born to a deaf family). My work includes translation, documentation and coding of different linguistic materials of ISL. While working here, I discovered that sign language arouses deep interest in me, and that there is a fascinating deaf community behind it, with a unique mental and cultural character.
Noa Marom
Email: noamarom@gmail.com I joined the Sign Language Lab as a research assistant in January 2014. In the previous year, as part of my MA studies at the English department at Haifa…
Svetlana Dachkovsky
Email: dachkov@yahoo.com Research Assistant. Through my work as research assistant on the prosody project in the lab, I became interested in facial expressions that function as intonation in sign language…
Natalia Meir
Email: natalia.meir@gmail.com I hold a PhD and an MA (summa cum laude) from the University of Bar-Ilan. In my doctoral thesis, I investigated the influence of bilingualism and Specific Language…
Sarah Lanesman
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.