► The Arabic Clusters Project (ISF grant #1902/21): A cross-sectional study of the development of word initial and word medial consonant sequences in Palestinian Arabic. PIs: Outi Bat-El and Avivit Ben-David.
► The Twins Project (ISF grant #1059/17): A longitudinal study of the phonological and morphological development of 2 pairs of typically developing Hebrew-acquiring twin boys – non-identical and identical. The children are recorded on a weekly basis from the age of 1 year old. PI: Outi Bat-El; Consultant: Galit Adam.
► The Child phonology Project (ISF grant #554/04) 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. PIs: Outi Bat-El and Galit Adam.
► The list of publications below provides the fruits of these projects (marked with *), including the articles in BAALL’s special issue on the acquisition of Hebrew phonology and morphology (reprinted as Bat-El, Outi (ed.). 2014. The Acquisition of Hebrew Phonology and Morphology). Additional studies on the acquisition of Hebrew phonology and morphology are also listed, all conducted by linguists associated with the Department of Linguistics at Tel-Aviv University. Check also Gafni’s Child Phonology Analyzer, another important product of our projects.
Samara, Suma, Avivit Ben-David and Outi Bat-El. in prep. The acquisition of word medial consonant sequences in Arabic (ages 2;0-5;0 years).
Watad, Ola, Avivit Ben-David and Outi Bat-El. in prep. Word initial consonant clusters in early Arabic (ages 2;6-5;0 years).
Erb, Ittamar and Outi Bat-El. in prep. Markedness and frequency in the acquisition of Hebrew vowels.
Ben-David, Avivit, Chen Gafni and Outi Bat-El. in prep. Pick and choose: The role of contiguity in syllable selection.
Yariv Daniella and Outi Bat-El. in prep. The emergence of the unmarked in early Hebrew speech: TROCHEE and WEIGHT-BY-POSITION.
Haim, Mor and Outi Bat-El. submitted. Asynchronization at the phonology–morphology interface: A case study of an atypically developing Hebrew-acquiring boy.
Bat-El, Outi and Avivit Ben-David. submitted. The early phonology of Hebrew and Arabic: Universal and language-specific effects. Oxford Guide to Afroasiatic Languages.
Haim, Mor, Noa Handelsman, Daniella Yariv, Chen Gafni, Daniel Asherov, Galit Adam, and Outi Bat-El. 2021. Phonology-morphology interface: Typical vs. atypical development of Hebrew. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Handelsman, Noa, Mor Haim, Daniella Yariv, Chen Gafni, Daniel Asherov, Galit Adam, and Outi Bat-El. 2021. The phonology of nouns and verbs in early Hebrew speech. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Yariv, Daniella. 2021. The Markedness over Faithfulness Bias: Coda Moraicity in Early Hebrew Speech. MA thesis, Tel-Aviv University.
Haim, Mor. 2020. Phonology-Morphology (A)synchronization in the Acquisition of Hebrew Verb Paradigm. MA thesis, Tel-Aviv University.
Handelsman, Noa. 2020. Category-specific Phonology in the Acquisition of Hebrew. MA thesis, Tel-Aviv University.
Yariv, Daniella, Mor Haim, Noa Handelsman, Chen Gafni, Daniel Asherov, Galit Adam, and Outi Bat-El. 2020. The markedness-over-faithfulness bias in language acquisition: Coda moraicity in the acquisition of Hebrew. A paper presented in OCP 17, Warsaw.
Handelsman, Noa, Mor Haim, Chen Gafni, Daniella Yariv, Daniel Asherov, Vered Cherkez, Galit Adam, and Outi Bat-El. 2018. Phonology-lexicon interface in the acquisition of Hebrew: Prosodic distinctions between lexical categories. A paper presented at the workshop on Phonological Variation and its interfaces, University of Barcelona, and the 2nd BJALL International Conference on Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, Nantes.
Haim, Mor, Noa Handelsman, Chen Gafni, Daniella Yariv, Vered Cherkez, Daniel Asherov, Galit Adam, and Outi Bat-El. 2018. Inter-child variation: The interface between phonology and morphology. A paper presented at the workshop on Phonological Variation and its interfaces, University of Barcelona.
Bat-El, Outi and Avivit Ben-David. 2018. Developing Phonology. A. Bar-On and D. Ravid (eds) Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives, 63-87. Mouton De Gruyter.
Ben-David, Avivit and Outi Bat-El. 2017. Stressed vs. final syllable in early speech: Which one is stronger? In E. Bar-Asher Siegal (ed.) Proceedings of IATL 2014, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 82.
Bat-El, Outi. 2017. The extent of inter-child variation: Typical vs. atypical phonological development. A paper presented at the 23rd Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Aristotle University, Thessaloniki.
Bat-El, Outi and Avivit Ben-David. 2017. Developing phonology. In A. Bar-On and D. Ravid (eds) Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives. Mouton De Gruyter.
Ben-David, Avivit and Outi Bat-El. 2016. Paths and Stages in the acquisition of Hebrew phonological word. In R. Berman (ed.) Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From Infancy to Adolescence, 39-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
*Asherov, Daniel and Evan-Gary Cohen. 2016. ʁ-Substitution: Where percepts, proximity and prosody meet. A paper presented at r-atics 5. Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
*Bat-El, Outi. 2015. The trochaic bias: Nature or nurture. A paper presented in DGfS 37 workshop Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing. Leipzig.
*Cohen, Evan-Gary. 2015. Phoneme complexity and frequency in the acquisition of Hebrew rhotics. Journal of child language acquisition development 3:1-11
Adi-Bensaid, Limor, Avivit Ben-David, and Gila Tubul-Lavy. 2015. Content words in Hebrew child-directed speech. Infant Behavior and Development 40:231-241.
*Bat-El, Outi (ed.). 2014. The Acquisition of Hebrew Phonology and Morphology. Brill.
Bat-El, Outi. 2013. Acquisition of Phonology. In G. Khan (ed.), the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (EHLL). Brill.
*Lustigman, Lyle. 2013. Linguistic interfaces in early acquisition: Lexical classes and grammatical systems in Hebrew child language. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University.
Tubul-Lavy, Gila. 2012. The correlation between phonological spelling errors and language development in Hebrew-speaking children. BAALL 4:140-161.
Adi-Bensaid, Limor. 2012. The role of prominence and position in the acquisition of codas in the speech of hearing-impaired children. BAALL 4:104-119.*Karni, Noa. 2011. Chain Shift and Local Constraint Conjunction in the Acquisition of Hebrew Onsets. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University.
*Lustigman, Lyle. 2012. Non-finiteness in early Hebrew verbs. BAALL 4:213-231.
*Albert, Aviad and Hadass Zaidenberg. 2012. Filler syllables in the acquisition of Hebrew: A prosodic account. BAALL 4:162-188. (Appendix).
*Gafni, Chen. 2012. Consonant harmony in the scope of language development: Evidence from Hebrew. BAALL 4:30-54.
*Gafni, Chen. 2012. Consonant Harmony in the Conspiracy of Acquisition: Evidence from Hebrew. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University. *Karni , Noa. 2012. Minimizing faithfulness violation in the acquisition of Hebrew onsets. BAALL 4:80-103.
*Bat-El, Outi. 2012. Phonological constraints on morphological development: The acquisition of Hebrew verb inflectional suffixes. BAALL 4:189-212.
*Bat-El, Outi. 2012. The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas. S. Parker (ed.), The Sonority Controversy, 319-344. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
*Becker, Michael. 2012. Target selection in error selective learning. BAALL 4:120-139. (Appendix)
Ben-David, Avivit. 2012. The development of prosodic structure: Evidence from typical longitudinal data. BAALL 4:55-79.
*Cohen, Evan-Gary. 2012. Vowel harmony and universality in Hebrew acquisition. BAALL 4:7-29. (Appendix)
*Bloch, Tamar. 2011. Simplification Patterns in the Acquisition of Word Initial Consonant Clusters in Hebrew. 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.
*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.
*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.
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.
*Levinger, Michal. 2007. The Acquisition of Hebrew Plurals: A Morpho-phonological Account. M.A. Thesis, Tel-Aviv University.
*Lustigman, Lyle. 2007. Selectivity in Early Child Grammar: The Case of Hebrew Verb Morphology. 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].