CURRICULUM VITAE

AVIYA HACOHEN
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E-mail: aviya@bgu.ac.il

EDUCATION
Ph.D.

2005- Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University

of the Negev. Topic: On the acquisition of (Hebrew) compositional
telicity. Supervisors: Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer and Prof. Nomi ErteschikShir. Submitted November 2009
M.A
2005 Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev (Combined MA/PhD program).
B.A.
2002 Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev. Cum laude
Mechina
1998 Emek Hayarden College, Tzemah, Israel.
Community College 1994 Massassoit Community College, Canton, MA, USA.
Junior High School 1992 Holbk, Denmark.
Junior High School 1990 Kibbutz Amir, Israel.
EDUCATION AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Summer 2004
Course in Dutch language, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Summer 2000

Course in Italian language, Universit degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy.

Spring 1992

Course in Danish language and culture, Holbk Sprogskole, Holbk, Denmark.

EMPLOYMENT
2009Content developer for "Smart!", preparation courses for the Israeli psychometric exam.
2003-2008 Research assistant to Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer, Department of Foreign Literatures &
Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2003-2007 Teaching assistant, Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev.
2002-2003 English teacher at the Branco-Weiss Organization in Beer Sheva, Israel.
1999-2003 Tutor of English for Israeli elementary and high-school students.

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COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

2008
European Union, COST Action A33: Cross-linguistically robust stages of childrens
linguistic performance. Grant for a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) to the
Institute for Cognitive Science, Lyon, France. (1215)
2007

Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience Excellence Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of

the Negev. ($2700)

2004

The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education,

Nuffic. A scholarship to conduct research at the University of Groningen, The
Netherlands. ( 3000)

2003

Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience Excellence Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of

the Negev. ($2700)

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
2006-2008 Research assistant to Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer on grants from The National Institute for
Psychobiology in Israel. (NIS 44,352)
2005-2006 Research assistant to Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer on grants from the Israeli Science
Foundation. (NIS 22,176)
2004-2005 Research assistant to Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer on grants from The National Institute for
Psychobiology in Israel. (NIS 22,176)
2002-2004 Research assistant to Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer on grants from the Israeli Science
Foundation and The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel. (NIS 24,560)
TRAVEL GRANTS
2009
European Union, COST Action A33: Cross-linguistically robust stages of childrens
linguistic performance. Grant to participate in the COST training school in Language
Acquisition Methods, including ERP, eye tracking, and on-line reaction time
experiments. (950)
2008

Paula Menyuk Travel Award to attend the Boston University conference on Language
Development (BUCLD), Boston University. ($330) COMPETITIVE

2008

Grant to travel to Edinburgh to present at the meeting of the International Congress for
the Study of Child Language (IASCL), University of Edinburgh. (250)
COMPETITIVE

2007

Travel grant from European Union to participate in COST A33 meeting: Crosslinguistically robust stages of childrens linguistic performance. ( 970)

2006

Travel grant from European Union to participate in COST A33 meeting: Crosslinguistically robust stages of childrens linguistic performance. ( 970)

2004

Grant to travel to Hawaii to present at GALANA 2004 conference (Generative

Approaches to Language Acquisition North America), University of Hawaii at Manoa.
($300) COMPETITIVE

2003

Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience Excellence Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of

the Negev. ($500) COMPETITIVE

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2002

Curriculum Vitae

Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, to travel to

the United States to present a paper at the annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development. ($330)

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2009
Dean's Prize, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (NIS 4000)
2000

Center for International Students Programs, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Exchange student at a 3 week course of Italian language at Universit degli Studi di
Udine, Udine, Italy. ( 800)

2004

Best poster at GALANA 2004 conference (Generative Approaches to Language

Acquisition North America), University of Hawaii at Manoa.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journals
1.
Hacohen, Aviya & Jeannette Schaeffer (2007). Subject realization in early Hebrew/English
bilingual acquisition: The role of crosslinguistic influence. Bilingualism: Language and
cognition, 10(3) 333-344. (No impact data available for journals in the field of linguistics)
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
1.
Hacohen, Aviya (to appear). On the acquisition of compositional telicity in Hebrew. In E.
Labeau & I. Saddour (eds), Development of Tense, Aspect and Mood in L1 and L2.
Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi.
Conference Proceedings (refereed)
1.
Aviya Hacohen (to appear). On the (changing?) status of the mass/count distinction in
Hebrew: Evidence from acquisition. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Israel
Associations for Theoretical Linguistics. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel. (around 30% acceptance)
2.

Aviya Hacohen (to appear). On the semantics and pragmatics of (Hebrew) compositional
telicity: Evidence from psycholinguistics. Proceedings of the GALA 2009 Conference on
Language Acquisition. Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (around 30%
acceptance)

3.

Aviya Hacohen (2009). Acquiring (Hebrew) compositional telicity: when is it ever

complete? Proceedings of BUCLD 33. Somerville: Cascadilla Press. (around 30%
acceptance)

4.

Hacohen, Aviya (2008). Acquiring the mass/count distinction in Hebrew: How does it
compare with English? Online Proceedings Supplement of BUCLD 32. Somerville:
Cascadilla Press. (33% acceptance)

5.

Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Leah, Aviya Hacohen, Rachel Eitan and Jeannette Schaeffer (2008).
The acquisition of Hebrew tense. Online Proceedings Supplement of BUCLD 32.
Somerville: Cascadilla Press. (33% acceptance)

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6.

Hacohen, Aviya (2005). The psychological reality of the telic/atelic distinction: Evidence
from adult and child Hebrew. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Israel
Associations for Theoretical Linguistics. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa. (around 40% acceptance)

7.

Hacohen, Aviya & Jeannette Schaeffer (2005). Subject realization in early Hebrew/English
bilingual acquisition: The role of crosslinguistic influence. Proceedings of the 1st GALANA
conference. (less than 30% acceptance)

8.

Schaeffer, Jeannette, Aviya Hacohen, and Arielle Bernstein (2003). On the acquisition of
DP in English-speaking children with SLI. Proceedings of BUCLD 27. Somerville:
Cascadilla Press. (less than 30% acceptance)

9.

Schaeffer, Jeannette, Aviya Hacohen, and Arielle Bernstein (2003). The dissociation
between grammar and pragmatics: Evidence from English SLI. Proceedings of the 19th
Annual Meeting of the Israel Associations for Theoretical Linguistics. Ben-Gurion
University, Beer Sheva. (around 40% acceptance)

10.

Schaeffer, Jeannette, Galina Gordishevsky, Galit Hadar and Aviya Hacohen (2002). The
dissociation between syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from English SLI. Proceedings of
the GALA 2001 Conference on Language Acquisition. Lisbon: Associao Portuguesa de
Linguistica. (less than 30% acceptance)

11.

Schaeffer, Jeannette, Galina Gordishevsky, Galit Hadar and Aviya Hacohen (2002).
Subjects in English-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment. Proceedings
of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Israel Associations for Theoretical Linguistics. Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. (around 40% acceptance)

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

2009
On the (changing?) status of the mass/count distinction in Hebrew: Evidence from
acquisition. IATL 25 (Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics). Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. October 2009. (around 30% acceptance)
2009

On the semantics and pragmatics of (Hebrew) compositional telicity: Evidence from

psycholinguistics. GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition).
Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Portugal. September 2009. (around 30% acceptance)

2008

Acquiring (Hebrew) compositional telicity: when is it ever complete? BUCLD 33 (Boston

University Conference on Language Development). November 2008. (around 30%
acceptance)

2008

(A)telicity and the role of the direct object: evidence from psycholinguistics. Chronos 8:
International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, University of Texas at
Austin, USA. October 2008. (around 50% accpetance)

2008

On the acquisition of (Hebrew) compositional telicity. IASCL 2008 (International

Association for the Study of Child Language), University of Edinburgh, Scotland. July
2008. (around 75% acceptance)

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2008

On the acquisition of a non-scalar quantity implicature: the 'Allover Implicature'. IASCL

2008 (International Association for the Study of Child Language), University of
Edinburgh, Scotland. July 2008. [Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette
Schaeffer] (around 75% acceptance)

2008

On the acquisition of the grammatical and pragmatic properties of (Hebrew) DPs. The
Charles E. Smith Memorial Lectures at the Institute for Psychobiology in Israel. Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. June 2008. [Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette
Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2008

On the acquisition of compositional telicity in Hebrew. Paper presented at the workshop

on The Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, and Mood in L1 & L2. Aston University,
Birmingham, UK. February 2008. (less than 30% acceptance)

2007

The acquisition of Hebrew tense. BUCLD 32 (Boston University Conference on Language

Development). November 2007. [Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Rachel Eitan and
Jeannette Schaeffer]. (33% acceptance)

2007

Acquiring the mass/count distinction in Hebrew: How does it compare with English?
BUCLD 32 (Boston University Conference on Language Development). November 2007.
(33% acceptance)

2007

Assessing Hebrew G-SLI. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Zlotowski Center for
Neuroscience, Annual Retreat, Nizana Youth Village. February 2007. [Co-authors: Leah
Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Rachel Eitan and Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2007

Solelat mivxanim leivxun likui safa spetsifi. The 43rd annual conference of the Israeli
Association of Speech Clinicians, Jerusalem, Israel. January-February 2007. [Co-authors:
Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich, Rachel Eitan and Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2006

A test battery for selecting children with Hebrew G-SLI. Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Zlotowski Centre for Neuroscience, Annual Retreat, Ganei Yam Hamelach, Israel.
March 2006. [Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by
invitation)

2006

Telicity and Specific Language Impairment. The 1st meeting of the management
committee of COST action A33: Cross-linguistically robust stages of childrens linguistic
performance. Brussels, Belgium. February 2006. [Co-author: Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by
invitation)

2005

The acquisition of Hebrew compositional telicity by normally developing children and

children with GSLI. IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language),
Berlin, Germany. July 2005. (less than 30% acceptance)

2005

The psychological reality of the telic/atelic distinction: Evidence from adult and child
Hebrew. IATL 21 (Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics). The Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. June 2005. (around 40% acceptance)

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2005

A test battery for selecting children with Hebrew G-SLI. EUCLDIS (The European Group
for the Study of Child Language Disorders), Abbaye de Royaumont, France. May 2005.
[Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2005

The acquisition of compositional telicity by Hebrew speaking children with Grammatical

Specific Language Impairment. The Charles E. Smith Memorial Lectures at the Institute
for Psychobiology in Israel. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. April 2005. [Co-author:
Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2004

Subject realization in early Hebrew/English bilingual acquisition: The role of

crosslinguistic influence. GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
North America), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. December 2004.
[Co-author: Jeannette Schaeffer]. (30% acceptance)

2004

Achieving telicity in Hebrew: preliminary results. University of Massachusetts workshop

From Syntax to SLI. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. November 2004. (by
invitation)

2004

Crosslinguistic influence and subject realization in early Hebrew/English bilingual

acquisition. BUCLD 29 (Boston University Conference on Language Development).
November 2004. [Co-author: Jeannette Schaeffer]. (less than 30% acceptance)

2004

Designing a diagnostic test battery for Hebrew G-SLI. The Groningen Workshop on the
L1 Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, and Questions. University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands. June 2004. [Co-authors: Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette Schaeffer].
(by invitation)

2004

The acquisition of compositional telicity by Hebrew speaking children with

Grammatical Specific Language Impairment. The Groningen Workshop on the L1
Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, and Questions. University of Groningen, Groningen,
The Netherlands. June 2004. [Co-author: Jeannette Schaeffer]. (by invitation)

2003

The dissociation between grammar and pragmatics: Evidence from English SLI.
IATL 19 (Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics). Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. June 2003. [Co-authors: Jeannette Schaeffer and
Arielle Bernstein]. (around 40% acceptance)

2002

On the acquisition of DP in English-speaking children with SLI. BUCLD 27 (Boston

University Conference on Language Development). November 2002. [Co-authors:
Jeannette Schaeffer and Arielle Bernstein]. (less than 30% acceptance)

2001

The dissociation between syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from English SLI. GALA
(Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition). Palmela, Portugal. September 2001.
[Co-authors: Jeannette Schaeffer, Galina Gordishevsky and Galit Hadar]. (less than 30%
acceptance)

2001

Subjects in English-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment. IATL 17

(Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics). Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
June 2001. [Co-authors: Jeannette Schaeffer, Galina Gordishevsky and Galit Hadar].
(around 40% acceptance)

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Invited seminars
2008
On compositional telicity in adult and child Hebrew. Meeting of the language acquisition
lab, Department of linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. October 2008.
2007

On the acquisition of compositional telicity in Hebrew. Department of Foreign Literatures

& Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. December 2007.

2006

Hebrew speaking childrens knowledge of the mass/count distinction and its role in
(a)telicity: A preliminary discussion. Tel-Aviv University Interdisciplinary Colloquium,
Tel-Aviv University. December 2006.

2005

Compositional telicity: Evidence from Hebrew adult and child language. Department of
Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. March 2005.

2004

Designing experiments to test knowledge of compositional telicity. Department of Letters,

Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands. June 2004.

2003

Modularity of Language and Specific Language Impairment in English speaking children.

The Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. February
2003.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fields of expertise
Psycholinguistics
Language acquisition
Semantics
Pragmatics
Syntax
Language Disorders
Cognitive Neuroscience
Courses taught
Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:
The acquisition of compositional telicity (B.A.)
Transcription according to CHILDES (B.A. / M.A.)
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (B.A.)
Introduction to Language Acquisition (B.A.)
Introduction to Semantics (B.A.)
Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (B.A.)
PRESENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS
Completed projects
1.
Supervising the establishment of a data base for bilingual language acquisition in children
acquiring Hebrew and English from birth on
2.
Development of a Hebrew assessment battery to differentiate children with GrammaticalSLI from normally developing children and from children suffering from non-grammar
impairments

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Ongoing activities
1.
The acquisition of compositional telicity by Hebrew speaking children with and without
Grammatical-SLI.
2.
The acquisition of articles by Hebrew speaking children with and without GrammaticalSLI
3.
The acquisition of the mass/count distinction by Hebrew speaking children with and
without Grammatical-SLI
Papers in preparation
1.
(A)telicity and the role of the direct object: evidence from psycholinguistics
2.
On the (changing) status of the mass/count distinction in Hebrew: Evidence from
acquisition
3.
Testing adult and child knowledge of (Hebrew) definiteness
4.
On the semantics and pragmatics of (Hebrew) compositional telicity: Evidence
from psycholinguistics
5.
Considerations in developing a diagnostic test battery for Hebrew SLI. [With
Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich and Jeannette Schaeffer]
Academic Service
Reviewer of article manuscript for Language Acquisition (2009)
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
First Language Acquisition
Language Disorders
Cognitive Psychology
Neurolinguistics
Linguistic Theory
Bilingualism

COMPUTER SKILLS
Word-highly proficient
PowerPoint-highly proficient
Excel-highly proficient
Internet- highly proficient

LANGUAGES
Hebrew-mother tongue
English-mother tongue
Danish-highly proficient
Italian-elementary
Dutch-elementary

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Referees

REFEREES
Prof. Jill de Villiers
Bass Hall 401
Smith College
Psychology Department
Northampton, MA 01063
USA
jdevil@science.smith.edu

Prof. Nomi Erteschik-Shir

Department of Foreign Literatures and
Linguistics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva 84105
Israel
shir@exchange.bgu.ac.il

Prof. Naama Friedmann

Language and Brain Lab
School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978
Israel
naamafr@post.tau.ac.il

Dr. Angeliek van Hout

Dept. of English
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
A.M.H.van.Hout@rug.nl

Prof. Thomas Roeper

Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
South College # 218
Amherst, MA 01003
USA
roeper@linguist.umass.edu

Dr. Jeannette Schaeffer

Department of Foreign Literatures and
Linguistics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva 84105
Israel
jschaef@bgu.ac.il

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