
Courses 2024-2025
37-922 Psycholinguistics and Research Methods for Graduate Students (Fall 2024)
37-975 Challenges to Language Acquisition: Bilingualism, Language Impairment and Socioeconomic Status (Fall 2024)
37-500 Language Acquisition (Spring 2025)
Students
Lamese Basheer (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2018. Effect of Dialectal Variation on the Acquisition of Verbs and Nouns: A Comparison of Six Dialects of Northern Palestinian Arabic in Israel. proposal approved
Maram Amara (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2020. The foundations of morpho-phonological processing: Evidence from Arabic speaking children’s acquisition of non-concatenative morphology. proposal approved
Tufuul Juma’a (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad). 2020. Sources of Variance in the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Lexicon of Palestinian Arabic (PA) speaking Kindergarteners. proposal approved
Orsolya Fazkash (PhD). 2021. Hungarian as Heritage Language in Israel, proposal approved
Sharon Fox (PhD with Carmit Altman). 2021. Sociolinguistic Identity among Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Children, proposal approved
Amna Halabi (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad)
Avigail Drori (MA)
Shirel Apel Kadosh (MA with Carmit Altman)
Yuval Kohn (MA with Carmit Altman)
Alumni
Lina Hashoul-Essa. 2025. Identifying risk factors for language development among Palestinian Arabic (PA) speaking children ages 18-36 months, using PA-CDI. (PhD)
Naila Abu Shaqra. 2025. Acquisition of verb and sentence structure in Palestinian Arabic: Typical and atypical development (PhD with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad) -
Karen Rose. 2024. Family Language Policy and its Influence on the Vocabulary of English-Hebrew Speaking Children. (PhD)
Minna Lipner. 2024. Crosslinguistic Influence in the Narratives and Lexicon of Bilingual Children. PhD with Carmit Altman).
Yael Laure. 2024. Linear and Nonlinear Processing of Hebrew Templatic Words among Hebrew Native, Hebrew-L2, and Non-Hebrew Speakers.(PhD)
Ronald Shabtaiev. 2024. Language attitudes among Mountain Jews: The case of heritage Russian and endangered Juhuri. (PhD with Joel Walters).
Hadar Abutbul-Oz. 2023. Use of Parental Questionnaires in the diagnosis of Language Impairment among Bilingual Children (PhD).
Hila Peretz. 2021. Language Competence and Executive Functions among English-Hebrew Bilingual School age Children (MA)
Julia Resnik. 2020. Regular and Irregular Morphology in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Development (PhD)
Oshrat Zaviv. 2020. Children's sensitivity to Focus Effects:Question Answer
Congruence and Focus Sensitive Expressions (PhD with Yael Greenberg)
Sandy Gluk. 2019. A systemic analysis of non-related responses and their preceding questions in the autism spectrum (PhD with Joel Walters & Jonathan Fine )
Rula fauer. 2019. The Effect of Diglossia on the Comprehension and Production of Syntactic Structures among Typically Developing Children (TLD) and Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad)
Karen Rose. 2018. English as a Heritage Language in Israel: The Age Effect (MA)
Maram Amara. 2018. Specific language impairment (SLI) effect on word and non-word repetition (MA with Elinor Saiegh-Haddad)
Ronald Shabtaev. 2018. Cross-generational Differences in Language Use among Mountain Jews in Israel – Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (MA with Joel Walters)
Tamara Goldstein. 2017. Vocabulary and meta-linguistics awareness of monolingual and
bilingual pre-school children (MA with Carmit Altaman, Education)
Sarit Ben Oved. 2016. Lexicon and Identity among Hebrew Monolingual and Bilingual
Children from an Amharic-Hebrew Setting
Natalia Meir. 2016. Language Proficiency in Bilingual Russian-Hebrew Speaking
Children – Internal and External variables (PhD)
Roula Abu-Kishk (MA). 2016. Acquisition of Exhaustivity in WH-questions among Arabic
Speaking Children with Typical Language Development (TLD) and Children with Learning Disabilities (LD) (MA)
Peri Iluz Cohen. 2015. Language Proficiency, Executive Control and Language Control:
Bilingual and Monolingual Children with Typical Language Development and with SLI (PhD)
Debbie Sarig. 2014. Bidirectional transfer and the functional system of English-Hebrew
bilingual children with Typical Language Development (TLD) or Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (MA)
Odelya Ohana. 2014. Using Parental Reports to assess the Language Development of
English-Hebrew Bilingual children ages 2-3 (MA)
Reem Bshara. 2013. - Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Palestinian Arabic Vernacular
(PAV) (PhD)
Efrat Harel. 2013. The Profile of Typically-Developing Bilingual Children (PhD)
Tehila Shpack. 2012. Comprehension and Processing of Multiple Negation by
Adolescents with Language Impairment (MA with Malka Muchnik, Hebrew Language)
Shira Bar Dayan. 2011. The Complexity of Scalar Implicatures: Evidence from SIs'
acquisition by Hebrew- speaking typically developing children and children with autistic spectrum disorder (MA with Yael Greenberg)
Olga Gupol. 2010. The Acquisition of Russian Verbal Morphosyntax in Russian-Hebrew
Bilingual Children (PhD, with Susan Rothstien)
Amal Kadri. 2010. The Early Acquisition of Palestinian Spoken Arabic Vernacular
by Uni -and Bi-Dialectical Children (PhD, with Joel Walters)
Ruth Litt-Afori. 2010. The Acquisition of Conditionals by Hebrew Speaking
Children (PhD, with Yael Greenberg)
Sharon Porat. 2010. The use of structures involving syntactic movement by English-
Hebrew Bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (MA)
Bat-Sheva Keren-Levisohn. 2009. The Sociopragmatics of Variation in Hebrew
Imperatives (PhD, with Joel Walters)
Dana Moldova. 2009. The narratives of bilingual children with TLD and with SLI (MA)
Orit Amiram. 2008. Processing of Competing Linguistic and Visual Clues by Children
with SLI (Specific Language Impairment) (PhD, with Susan Rothstien)
Idit Avram. 2008. The Autonomous Contribution of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
to the Acquisition of the Hebrew Definite System and the Relation to Theory of Mind (PhD, with Susan Rothstien)
Efrat Shimon. 2008. The Use of Prepositions by English-Hebrew Bilingual and Bilingual
SLI Children (MA)
Michal Cohen. 2008. The Relationship between Acquisition of Wh Questions and
Theory of Mind: Evidence from Pre-school High Functioning Children with ASD and Young Typically Developing Toddlers (MA)
Peri Iluz-Cohen. 2008. Language Proficiency, Language Control and Executive Control
in Bilingual Children (MA)
Efrat Harel. 2004. Very Early Child Second Language Acquisition. Do Morphological
and Syntactic Differences between L1 and L2 Still Interfere? (MA)
Orit Amiram. 2002. The Assignment of Grammatical Gender in Hebrew - Evidence from
Language Acquisition (MA)