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Svetlana
Dachkovsky. My research
interests include facial expressions that function
as intonation in sign language and ways of distinguishing
linguistic and affective facial expressions. My
masters thesis focuses on the role of facial expression
in marking neutral and counterfactual conditionals
in Israeli Sign Language (ISL), and identifies
general pragmatic meanings of the individual facial
components characterizing
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of conditionals, as well as other linguistic constructions
in ISL. In addition, I am interested in grammaticalization
paths of linguistic facial expressions in the visual-spatial
language modality.
Email: dachkov@yahoo.com
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Etty
Moiseyev. I am interested
in language and communication in the education
of deaf children, especially in the bilingual approach.
My research includes work on deaf childrens competence
in Israeli sign language and Hebrew. My doctoral
project aims to determine whether developing childrens
metalinguistic knowledge of specific grammatical
structures
typically found in sign
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may aid in the instruction of written language.
Email: etty_moi@yahoo.com
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Tzipora
Rakedzon. I am interested in how the modality of a language
affects brain organization. In addition, I am interested
in the differences between deaf and hearing readers
both in terms of reading strategies, e.g. phonological
versus orthographical encoding, and in terms of
hemispheric specialization. My
masters thesis experimentally tests meaning access,
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in deaf readers. Email: maor_7@netvision.net.il |
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Ofra
Rosenstein. After investigating
topic-comment constructions in Israeli Sign Language
in my MA thesis, I intend to study the phrasal
structures of verbs and their relation to information
structure (topic-comment). My main interest is
the interplay between spatial grammar, pragmatics,
and syntax in ISL sentence structure. Email: ofra_ron@zahav.net.il |
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