► The Child Language Project involves a longitudinal study of the phonological and morphological development of three Hebrew-acquiring children, two typically developing and one with mild PDD. The children were recorded on a weekly basis, from the first year up to the age of 3 for the typically developing children and 4 for the atypically developing one.  ► The project is headed by Outi Bat-El and Galit Adam and was partially supported by ISF grant #554/04.  ► The list below provides the fruits of this project (marked with *) as well as other studies on the acquisition of Hebrew phonology and morphology.

 

*Gafni, Chen. to appear. Consonant Harmony in the Conspiracy of Acquisition: Evidence from Hebrew. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University. 

*Bloch, Tamar. 2011. Simplification Patterns in the Acquisition of Word Initial Consonant Clusters in Hebrew. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University. 

*Karni, Noa. 2011. Chain Shift and Local Constraint Conjunction in the Acquisition of Hebrew Onsets. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University. 

*Bat-El, Outi. 2010. Phonological interference with morpho-syntactic guidelines: The acquisition of Hebrew verb inflectional suffixes. A paper presented at BAALL's 1st Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics. Paris.

*Adam, Galit and Outi Bat-El. 2009. When do universal preferences emerge in language development? The acquisition of Hebrew stress. Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 1:1-28.

*Gishri, Michal. 2009. The Role of Prominence in the Acquisition of  Medial Codas in Hebrew: Evidence from a Slow Developer. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University. 

Bat-El, Outi. 2009. Harmonic domains and synchronization in typically and atypically developing Hebrew-speaking children. Language Sciences 31:117-135.

Adam, Galit and Outi Bat-El. 2008. Morphological knowledge without morphological structure: Morphology-prosody interface in the first Hebrew verbs. In S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon, and S. Rothstein (eds) Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 197-222.

*Adam, Galit and Outi Bat-El. 2008. Segmental effects on syllable selection: Evidence from Hebrew. In A. Gavarró and M.J. Freitas (eds) Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2007. Newscastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 1-11.

*Adam, Galit and Outi Bat-El. 2008. The trochaic bias is universal: Evidence from Hebrew. In A. Gavarró and M.J. Freitas (eds) Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2007. Newscastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 12-24.

*Lustigman, Lyle. 2007. Selectivity in Early Child Grammar: The Case of Hebrew Verb Morphology. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University.

*Levinger, Michal. 2007. The Acquisition of Hebrew Plurals: A Morpho-phonological Account . M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University.

*Bat-El, Outi. 2006. Category-specific phonology in adult and child Hebrew. A paper presented at OCP 4, Rhodes.

Adi-Bensaid, Limor. 2006. The Prosodic Development of Hebrew-Speaking Hearing Impaired Children with CI and HA. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University.

Tubul-Lavy, Gila. 2005. The Phonological Development of Hebrew-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyspraxia. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University [in Hebrew].

Adi-Bensaid, Limor and Outi Bat-El. 2004. The development of the prosodic word in the speech of a hearing impaired child with a cochlear implant device. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 2:187-206.

Adam, Galit. 2002.  From Variable to Optimal Grammar: Evidence from Language Acquisition and Language Change. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University.

Ben-David, Avivit. 2001. Language Acquisition and Phonological Theory: Universal and Variable Processes Across Children and Across Languages. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University. [in Hebrew].