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.
Adi Steg
Email: adisteg89@gmail.com I have been working as a speech therapist since 2015. I work with children and adults with language disorders and hearing impairments. I am an MA student…
