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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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…

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…

  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…

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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  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,…

Christina Healy

I am a doctoral candidate at Gallaudet University, and previously worked with the SLRL as a Fulbright scholar (http://www.fulbright.org.il). For that project we compared prosodic features such as manual rhythm and facial movements in Israeli Sign Language and American Sign Language. We found some similarities in how the languages use these features for grammatical purposes, which may point to universal features of the sign language modality. We also found language-specific forms that characterize the prosodic systems of each language.

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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…

Sharon Ross Email: smr@ling.ohio-state.edu

I completed my master’s degree in linguistics at The Ohio State University, where my studies focused on first language acquisition in spoken languages. Through my research both in the Developmental Language and Cognition Lab and in the Spanish Psycholinguistics Lab, I investigated the development of children’s ability to interpret the meanings of various prosodic structures.

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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…