Lecturer

Dr. Ronit Szterman-Harari

Lecturer

ronit.szterman-harari@biu.ac.il

Reception Hours

Monday, between 18:00 to 19:00 (by appointment)

Affiliation

Bachelor study programs

Special Education

Publications

Friedmann, N., & Szterman, R. (in press). Developmental language impairments. In E. Leivada & K.K. Grohmann (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and Its Applications. Cambridge University Press.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2024). Comprehension and Production of Sentences with V-C Movement in Orally-Trained Children with Hearing Impairment. In G. Bocci, D. Botteri, C. Manetti, and V. Moscati (Eds.), Rich Descriptions and Simple Explanation in Language Structure and Acquisition (chapter 10). Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax Series. Oxford University Press.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2020). The effect of syntactic impairment on errors in reading aloud: Text reading and comprehension of deaf and hard of hearing children. Brain Sciences, 10(11), 896.‏
Friedmann, N., Szterman, R., Belletti, A., & Rizzi, L. (2018). The head the construct: Construct state nominals as a novel window to syntactic movement difficulties in hearing impairment. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1).‏
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2017). Comprehension and production of sentences with verb movement to C in children with hearing impairment. Language and Brain, 12, 53-87. (in Hebrew)
Friedmann, N., Yachini, M., & Szterman, R. (2015). Relatively easy relatives: Children with syntactic SLI avoid intervention. In E. Di Domenico, C. Hamann, and S. Matteini (Eds.), Structures, strategies and beyond. Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti (pp. 303–320). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell series.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2015). Insights into the syntactic deficit of children with hearing impairment from a sentence repetition task. In C. Hamann & E. Ruigendijk (Eds.), Generative approaches to language acquisition. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2014). Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: Different profiles of syntactic impairment. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 5(1229), 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01229
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2014). On the syntactic abilities of school-aged children with hearing impairment and their implications for reading comprehension. In T. Most & D. Ringwald (Ed.), Topics in rehabilitation and education of children with hearing impairment (pp. 239-294). Tel Aviv: Mofet. (in Hebrew)
Friedmann, N., Szterman, R. (2011). The Comprehension and Production of Wh-Questions in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 16(2).
Friedmann, N., Szterman, R., & Haddad-Hanna, M. (2011). The comprehension of relative clauses and Wh questions in Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic hearing impairment. In A. Castro, J. Costa, M. Lobo, & F. Pratas (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2009. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press/CSP.
Nave, M., Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2009). Comprehension and production of Wh questions by Hebrew-speaking children with hearing impairment: another evidence for the difficulty in syntactic movement. Language and Brain, 9, 1-29. (in Hebrew)
Friedmann, N., Novogrodsky, R., Szterman, R., & Preminger, O. (2008). Resumptive pronouns as last resort when movement is impaired: Relative clauses in hearing impairment. In S. Armon-Lotem, G. Danon, & S. Rothstein (Eds.), Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, 134, series Linguistics Today (pp. 276-290). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2007). How do children with hearing impairment produce and understand relative clauses? Israeli Journal of Language, Speech, and Hearing Disorders, 28, 58-71. (in Hebrew)
Friedmann, N., & Szterman, R. (2006). Syntactic movement in orally-trained children with hearing impairment. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 11(1), 56-75.
Szterman, R., & Friedmann, N. (2003). The deficit in comprehension of movement-derived sentences in children with hearing impairment. Seeing the Voices, 2, 20-29. (in Hebrew)

Last Updated Date : 06/01/2025