People – Page 2 – Sign Language Research Lab

Yifat Ben-Zeev

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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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Anne Marie Baer

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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,…

Gal Belzitsman

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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.…

Tamar Halutzi

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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…

Ora Ohanin

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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Email: ora.ohanin@gmail.com I am deaf with deaf parents, and therefore Israeli Sign Language is my mother tongue.In my work as a research assistant I learn new and interesting things…

Rama Novogrodsky

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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…

Oksana Tkachman

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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Oksana Tkachman Email: tox.cs84@gmail.com

Research Assistant. I became interested in sign language research while studying with Prof. Wendy Sandler. My MA thesis project focused on the noun/verb distinction in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL). I was also involved in the preparation of the dictionary of ABSL.
I currently work on compounding in ISL and ABSL, focusing primarily on general characteristics and developmental patterns of this basic morphological mechanism in the early stages of language development.

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Hope E. Morgan

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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…

Assaf Israel

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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Assaf Israel During the time I had worked at the lab, my main interest has been the way manual gestures are constrained in the production of sign language. The set…

Kate Mesh

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Post published:January 16, 2013
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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…