Developing Language and Literacy / Literacy Studies Bd.23 (PDF)

Ronit Levie is a Speech-Language Therapist by training, a faculty member specializing in developmental psycholinguistics at the Department of Communication Disorders, Tel-Aviv University. Ronit is interested in the emergence and development of the Hebrew morphology and lexicon across the learning years. Her research derives from Usage Based models, focusing on corpus analyses of typical and atypical populations from different socio-economic backgrounds. She has published papers in leading journals, such as Morphology, Reading and Writing, First Language, The Mental Lexicon, and Dyslexia.



Amalia Bar-On is a Speech and Language Therapist by training and a senior faculty member at the Department of Communication Disorders, Tel-Aviv university. She has developed a psycholinguistic model of Hebrew reading development which is widely accepted among researchers, clinicians, and educators. Her research addresses the orthographic features of the Hebrew orthography,focusing on Hebrew-specific as well as universal processes of reading and learning to read in typical and atypical populations. She has published papers in leading journals, such as Reading and Writing, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Journal of Learning Disabilities.



Orit Ashkenazi is a senior Speech and Language Therapist and a developmental psycholinguist teaching at Hadassa Academic College in Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the acquisition of the Hebrew verb from a usage-based perspective. Her seminal dissertation on this topic has expanded into various research avenues including verb analyses in peer conversations and an investigation of Hebrew verb binyan functions. Orit has published in leading journals such as Journal of Child Language, First Language and Morphology.



Elitzur Dattner is a linguist, teaching at the Department of Communication Disorders, Tel-Aviv university, and at the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Bar-Ilan University.