MA Theses

	Submitted by	Year of Submission
Optimal Paradigms: a challenge from Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic	Eyal Marco	2024
Similarity-based interference impairs comprehension: The case of Animacy	Naama Gidron	2024
Intransitive Verbs in Hebrew and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis: An Experimental Study of Unaccusativity Diagnostics	Ziv Plotnik-Peleg	2023
From synchrony to diachrony and back: the case of Hebrew pronominal possessives	Ittamar Erb	2022
Early Resumptive Pronouns In Hebrew Relative Clauses: Production And Comprehension Preferences	Niki Koesterich	2022
Three Men Walk into a Bar: Quantifying Phonological Distance Between Languages on a Universal Scale	Alona Golubchik	2022
Phonological Reduction as a Marker for Modalization in Verbs in Israeli Hebrew	Elinoar Ganani	2022
Recovery Strategies in Dialogue with Senior Adults	Shaul Ashkenazi	2021
Three NPs Walk into a Sentence: Can Agreement and Resumption Improve Center Embedding Sentences?	Hila Davidovitch	2021
Like Father, Like Son, Like Father: Investigating Developmental Stages in Child-Directed Speech	Stav Klein	2021
Rhythmic Similarities between Language and Music: Jazz and Bluegrass Musicians as a Case Study	Udi Wahrsager	2021
Thr Markedness over Faithfulness Bias: Coda moraicity in early Hebrew speech	Daniella Yariv	2021
The Resh Riddle: Identifying The Biblaical Hebrew Rhotic	Carlo Meloni	2021
The Compassionate Parser: Animacy, Attitudes and Sentence Processing	Noa Geller	2020
Double Negation in Hebrew: Interpretation and Motivation	Yechezkel Shabanov	2020
Evolution of Phonological Typology: an Iterated Learning Model of the Emergence of Phonological Patterns	Itamar Shefi	2020
Positional Allomorphy: Pausal vs. Context forms in Tiberian Hebrew	Roman Himmelreich	2019
Non-Optimal Argumentation: Minimum and Maximum Constructions	Nicole Katzir	2019

Anaphors in Space	Noa Bassel	2018
The Controlled Passive in Hebrew	Yakir Dalal	2018
A Frequency Based Model for Lexicalization of Logical Operators	Adam Rimon	2018
Strictly Incremental Parsing, Unconscious Deletion and C-Command	Omer Rosenbaum	*2018*
Null Complement Anaphora and Null Object in Hebrew	Moshe Ziat	*2018*

	Learning Head-Complement Order with Minimalist Grammars	Tomer Avraham	2017
	Verb-specific Lexical Information and Online Sentence Processing in Hebrew: A Look at Prepositions and Filler-gap Dependency Formation	Kayla Gold-Shalev	2017

	Hebrew Labile Alternation	Shaul Lev	2016
	Syncretism in Modern Hebrew	Ifat Stern Sabach	2016

Prosodic Deficit in the Perception of Focus: Evidence from Hebrew Speaking Individuals with Asperger Syndrome

Hadass Zaidenberg

2015

Phonotactic Universals in Modern Hebrew: Evidence for Prosodic Alignment of Stops	Aviad Albert	2014
The Nature of Resumprive Pronouns: Evidence from Parasitic Gaps	Tali Arad	2014
On the Notion of Equivalence: Coordinated Constructions in Narrative Discourse	Gal Belsitzman	2014
Parameters (or Lack Thereof) in L2 Acquisition: The Null Subject Parameter	Noa Brandel	2014
A Discourse Based Typology of Intensifiers	Maria Goldshtein	2014
The Dative Dispositional Construction in Russian	Dganit Jenia Kim	2014
An Evaluation Metric for Optimality Theory	Ezer Rasin	2014
The Role of Similarity in Co-Occurrence Restrictions: Evidence from the Hebrew Verbal System	Hadas Yeverechyahu	2014

Consonant Harmony in the Scope of Language Development	Chen Gafni	2012
Idiom Storage and the Structure of the Lexicon	Hadar Klunover	2012
Default Non-Literal Interpretation of Negative Utterances: The Poetic Power of Negation	Elad Livnat	2012
On the Formation of Idioms: The Case of Goal Ditransitives	Yael Mishani	2012
The Formation of Idioms: Evidence from Possessive Datives in Hebrew	Lior Ordentlich (Almog)	2012
Negation in Context: Non-literal Interpretation of Novel Metaphors in Russian	Nadezhda Samokhin	2012

Simplification Strategies in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters in Hebrew	Tamar Bloch	2011
And They Say Women Don't Have a Sense of Humor: On Gender and Sarcasm	Ari Drucker	2011
Low-Salience Marking	Shir Givoni	*2011*
Minimal Violation of Faithfulness: Chain Shift and Local Conjunction in the Acquisition of Hebrew Onsets	Noa Karni	*2011*

Processing Complex NP Islands in Hebrew

Bruno Nicenboim

2010

The Role of Prominence in the Acquisition of Medial Codas in Hebrew: Evidence from a Slow Developer	Michal Gishri	2009
The Acquisition of the Lexicon-Syntax Parameter: A Developmental Study of Reflexivization	Lola Karsenti	2009
Hebrew Possessive Datives: Corpus Evidence for the Role of Affectedness	Tal Linzen	2009
A Study of Inanimate Unergatives	Joseph Potashnik	2009
Multifactorial Analysis of V1 Constructions in Hebrew Intransitive Clauses	Hillel Taub-Tabib	2009

Acquisition of Unaccusativity	Eugenia Birger	2008
Lower Transitivity Constructions in Hebrew: The Case of Motion Verbs	Elitzur Dattner	2008
The Psychological Reality of Hidden Lexical Entries	Julie Fadlon	2008
Default Stress in Unpredictable Sress Language: Evidence from Russian and Hebrew	Lena Fainleib	2008

	Selectivity in Early Child Grammar: The Case of Hebrew Verb Morphology	Lyle Lustigman	2007
	High, Low and in between: Giryama Tonology	Erez Volk	2007

Pre-parsing Efficiently	Uriel Cohen Priva	2006
The Morphology-Lexicon and Morphology-Syntax Interfaces: Thematic Operations in Semitic Languages	Lior Laks	2006
Argument-Mapping and Extraction	Omer Preminger	2006

The EPP, Nominative Case, and Expletives	Eleonora Goldshlag	2005
The Genetic and Typological Classification of Modern Hebrew	Danny Kalev	2005
Adjectival Passives and Adjectival Decausatives in Hebrew	Aya Meltzer	2005

	The Pragmatics-Phonology Interface: Accessibility and Reduction - Hebrew Possessives	Evan-Gary Cohen	2003
	Parsing Optional Garden Path Sentences in Hebrew	Oren Sadeh Leicht	2003

Predicate Interpretations as Intensions Restricted along Dimensions

Galit Sassoon

2001