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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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,…