Sigal Uziel-Karl

Sigal Uziel-Karl received her BA in Linguistics from Tel Aviv University, her MS in Second Language Acquisition from MIT, and her Ph.D. in First Language acquisition from Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation, entitled "A Multidimensional Perspective on the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure" deals with the acquisition of verbs in child Hebrew from a developmental, usage-based perspective. Her research interests include various aspects of verb acquisition (the verb lexicon, verb morphology, semantics and argument structure), as well as individual and crosslinguistic differences in acquisition, the effects of parental input on early acquisition, and research methodology. She is also an active member of the pre- and proto-morphology research project headed by Prof. Wolfgang Dressler from the University of Vienna. Uaiel-Karl's collaboration with the SCLD LIPS research group started in 2002, in a paper examining the development and use of middle constructions by Hebrew-speaking children.

Her e-mail for correspondence is: sigal@alum.mit.edu.

Uziel-Karl's major publications include:

Uziel, S. (1993). "Resetting Universal Grammar Parameters: Evidence from Second Language Acquisition of Subjacency and the Empty Category Principle". In Second Language Research, 9.1, pp. 49-84.

Uziel-Karl, S. & R. A. Berman. (2000). "Where's ellipsis? Whether and Why There are Missing Arguments in Hebrew Child Language?". Linguistics 38, Vol. 3, pp. 457-482.

Uziel-Karl, S. (2001). A Multidimensional Perspective on the Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Tel Aviv University.

Uziel-Karl, S. (2002). "Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure in a Developmental Perspective" [to be published in the edited volume Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, Dordrecht:Kluwer]

Uziel-Karl, S. & N. Budwig. (2002). The Development of Non-Agent Subjects in Hebrew Child Language. In Barbara Beachley, Amanda Brown, and Frances Conlin (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 798-808). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.