Wendy Sandler
NationalityAmerican-Israeli
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • professor
Known forResearch on the phonology of Sign Languages
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin

Wendy Sandler (born 1949, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American-Israeli linguist who is known for her research on the phonology of Sign Languages.[1]

Career and research

Sandler earned her PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987, with a dissertation entitled "Sequentiality and simultaneity in American Sign Language."[2] A revised version of her dissertation was published in 1989 under the title, "Phonological Representation of the Sign: Linearity and Nonlinearity in Sign Language Phonology."

After her dissertation, Sandler took up a position at the University of Haifa, Israel, where she became a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature.[3] She was also the Founding Director of the Sign Language Research Lab there.[4]

Sandler has co-written a book on Israeli Sign Language with Irit Meir (Meir & Sandler 2007). With Diane Lillo-Martin, she has co-authored a standard linguistic introduction to the phonology and syntax of American Sign Language (Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006).[5]

In collaboration with Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir and Carol Padden, Sandler has made fundamental contributions to the investigation of the emergence of language with her research on Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.[6] This research is featured in Talking Hands, by Margalit Fox.[7]

Honors and awards

In December 2017, Sandler won a prize of 150,000 Israeli new shekels from Mifal HaPayis for her conceptual research systems while following new sign languages which are being converted into functional communication, including a sign language of a Bedouin community in Israel.[8]

During 2014–2018, Sandler led a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant entitled, "The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language" (GRAMBY).[9]

In 2020, Sandler was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10]

Key publications

References

  1. ^ "wendy sandler – Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  2. ^ "Wendy Sandler Dissertation Link". dissexpress.umi.com. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  3. ^ "Prof. Wendy Sandler". english.haifa.ac.il. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  4. ^ "Wendy Sandler, Director". Sign Language Research Lab. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  5. ^ "Sign Language Linguistics – Linguistics – Oxford Bibliographies – obo". Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  6. ^ Senghas, Ann (2005-06-21). "Language Emergence: Clues from a New Bedouin Sign". Current Biology. 15 (12): R463–R465. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.06.018. ISSN 0960-9822. PMC 2562693. PMID 15964267.
  7. ^ "Margalit Fox | Official Site | Talking Hands: In a remote village where everyone speaks sign language, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language – and uncovering the workings of the human mind". www.talkinghandsbook.com. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  8. ^ "Professor Wendy Sandler". Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-03-30.;
    "Professor Wendy Sandler received the Mifal Hapayis prize for Arts and Sciences named after Landau for 2017". Haifa News (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  9. ^ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects & Results Service : The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language". cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
  10. ^ "Wendy Sandler". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-02-10.

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