Faculty
Shmuel Bolozky, professor
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1972.
M.A. in English Language, University of London, 1968.
B.A. in English Literature and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1965.
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Professor of Hebrew, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1985- (started as Assistant Professor, 1978).
Former Chairperson of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, 1985-1990, 1995-1998.
Assistant Dean of Advising, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005-
Visiting Professor at the Hebrew Language Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Winter Session, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000.
Visiting Professor at the Hebrew Language Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fall 1991, Winter Session, 2000/2001.
Visiting Professor at the Hebrew Language Department of Tel Aviv University, Winter Session, 2001/2002, 2002/2003.
Visiting Professor, University of Central Florida, 1984/5.
Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, 1972-1978. Acting department head, 1975/6.
Visiting Lecturer in Hebrew, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Fall 1976.
Instructor in Hebrew, University of Illinois, 1968-1972
GRANTS
Sub-grants derived from two four-year Title VI grants awarded to Brigham Young University by the U.S. Department of Education for a National Middle East Language Resource Center, 2002-2006, 2007-2011.
(with Joel Halpern and Walter Denny) grant for the publication of a catalogue for an exhibition on the multicultural heritage of Bosnia, Littauer Foundation, 1996-97
Lady Davis Fellowship at the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for one semester during the 1991-92 academic year.
(with Joel Halpern) a Judaica Book Fund Endowment for UMass, Littauer Foundation, 1989
Five College Foreign Language Resource Center Grant in Pedagogy and Technology, 1987/8, for research on semi-standard native usage as a means of rule simplification in the teaching of a foreign language.
Joseph P. Healey Endowment grant, 1987, for research on canonical patterns in Modern Hebrew noun formation.
Faculty Research Grants, University of Massachusetts, 1979, 1981, for research on fast and casual speech, and 1984 (with A. Haydar), for research on Hebrew and Arabic numerals.
Research grant, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, July/August, 1978, for research on compressed speech.
Research grants, Tel Aviv University, 1974/5, 1975/6, for research on Hebrew phonology.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Director for Hebrew language in a new National Middle East Language Resource Center, funded by a Title VI U.S. Department of Education grant administered through Brigham Young University.
President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 2001-2003, Vice President 1998-2001
Member of the Program Committee of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew International Conference on of Hebrew Language and Literature, 1993 --
Chair of the Modern Hebrew Divisional Committee of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), and ex-officio member of the NAPH Advisory Council, 1995-1998.
Hebrew Annual Review -- member of Editorial Board (1983-5).
Hebrew Studies -- member of Editorial Board (1988-89, 1992-93, 1997 --).
Hebrew Higher Education -- member of Editorial Board (1989 --)
Shofar: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies -- Member of Editorial Board (1991 --)
Referee for Hebrew Annual Review, Hebrew Studies, Hebrew Union College Annual, Hebrew Higher Education, Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, John Benjamin's.
Member of an international team assembled at Tel Aviv University to build up a corpus of spoken Israeli Hebrew (1999 -- )
Reviewer of the Department of Critical Languages, Temple University, 2006; of the Hebrew Language Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2001; of the Hebrew Program at the Department of Judaic Studies, State University of New York at Albany, 1993; of the Hebrew Program at the Department of Hebrew and East Asian Languages, University of Maryland at College Park, 1991; of a proposed BA degree in Judaic Studies to be offered by the University of Florida (Gainesville), 1989.
Member of a team that prepared and published guidelines for testing proficiency in Modern Hebrew, as mandated by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) -- 1990-93.
Coordinator of the section on Modern Hebrew Language, Linguistics and Language Acquisition of the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, 1995-1998.
North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, local organizer, 1981; member of program committee, 1982, 1983.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Linguistic Society of America Association of Jewish Studies (80-03)
National Association of Professors of Hebrew World Union of Jewish Studies
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (79-03) American Oriental Society ('80-'94)
The Society of Biblical Literature (02-04)
PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
“The schwa and the segol in Israeli Hebrew.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew’s International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, U Minnesota, June 11-13, 2006.
"Metaphors in Hebrew slang and in Hebrew literature." A Conference on Hebrew Slang, Bar-Ilan University, February 1, 2006.
"Constraints on initial consonant clusters in Israeli Hebrew." The National Association of Professor of Hebrew's Annual Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, Stanford, California, June 19-21, 2005.
"On the Centrality of Suffixes in Hebrew Noun and Adjective Formation." Symposium on "Current issues in Semitic morphology and syntax." University of Oslo, May 25, 2005.
“Optimal partial vowel marking in Israeli Hebrew.” A symposium on “Vowel Marking in Israel Hebrew: Past, Present and Future.” Bar-Ilan University, Dec 14, 2004.
“The contribution of Haiim B. Rosen to the understanding of the role of sonority in Israeli Hebrew phonology.” Symposium marking the fiftieth anniversary of Rosen’s Ha`ivrit Shelanu (Our Hebrew), the first grammar of Israeli Hebrew. University of Haifa, Dec 12, 2004.
“Methodological issues involved in using feature films in the Hebrew classroom.” Roundtable on “Innovative Approaches to Using Video for Language Learning,” sponsored by the National Middle east Language Resource Center, Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, California. Nov 20-23, 2004.
“Research on Modern Hebrew in the US: the next generation.” Middle East Studies Association/American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Webcast, University of California Berkeley, Nov 20, 2004.
“Complementary distribution between pre-tonal lengthening and vowel centralization in colloquial Hebrew.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew’s annual Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, Austin, Texas, June 5-8, 2004.
“Reflections of hitpa`el metathesis.” Symposium in honor of Ora Schwarzwald, on the publication of her The Morphology of Modern Hebrew.” Bar-Ilan University, January 13, 2004.
“Profile of Students of the Languages of the Middle East: Background, Motivation,” 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Philadelphia, Nov 22, 2003. Presented and analyzed the Hebrew data.
“Grammar in the Middle Eastern Language Classroom,” 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Philadelphia, Nov 21, 2003. Organized panel on behalf of the National Middle East Language Resource Center and presented the case of Hebrew.
“Preliminary information on the state of the curriculum and teaching materials in Modern Hebrew,” and “Hebrew corpora: compilation and use,” two talks delivered at the Technology, Curriculum Design & Material Development workshop for teachers of Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian & Turkish, May 14-16, 2003, Emory University in cooperation with the National Middle East Language Resource Center
“Reduction and elision of consonants in casual Israeli Hebrew speech.” The 19th Meeting of the Israeli Branch of the European Linguistic Society,” Beit Berl College (Israel), January 16, 2003.
“kolot vetsurot be`ivit yisre’elit meduberet (Sounds and forms in colloquial Israeli Hebrew.)” A symposium marking the publication of Te`uda 18: medabrim `ivrit -- lexeker halashon hameduberet vehashonut haleshonit beyisra’el (Speaking Hebrew: Studies in Colloquial Hebrew and Linguistic Variation in Israel), 2002, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press. January 9, 2003.
“kana bimshikha, hishlim tsiyud: translating literary metaphors into slang.” Translation: A Symposium in Honor of Edna Amir Coffin, Washington University in St. Louis, Oct. 13, 2002. Same talk delivered at the of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew’s Spring Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, Tampa, Florida, May 18-20, 2003.
“What aspects of colloquial Hebrew can contribute to the promotion of literacy?” Keynote address, at the 2002 meeting of Script, the Israel Association for Literacy, Bar-Ilan University, July 7-8, 2002.
“Linear first-time derivation of verbs in Israeli Hebrew”. The 2002 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Ben Gurion University, July 2-4, 2002.
“Pre-tonal lengthening in colloquial Israeli Hebrew.” International Conference on the Hebrew Language, Rothberg International School, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 23-24, 2002.
“On the centrality of suffixes in current Hebrew word formation”. Conference on “Lexical and morphological processing in spoken and written language,” Bar-Ilan University, Dec. 12, 2001.
“Building up a limited corpus for Israeli Hebrew, and using it in Hebrew linguistic research and in teaching Hebrew as a foreign language.” The 2001 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, New York, June 10-12, 2001.
“Super radicals in the ‘roots’ of denominative Hebrew verbs.” The 2000 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Spertus Institute, Chicago, May 28-30, 2000
“Phonological and morphological variation in spoken Hebrew.” Presentation at a symposium on “Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Modern Hebrew,” Emory University, Feb 3-5, 2000
“Using small corpora in linguistic research: the case of Israeli Hebrew.” Presentation at a workshop on the use of linguistic corpora in linguistic research, Tuscan Word Center, Pescia, Italy, October 11-17, 1999.
“To what extent can non-normative usage be legitimized in teaching?” The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 5, 1999.
“Teaching grammar in the Hebrew-as-a-foreign-language classroom.” Presentation in a panel: “Teaching Grammar: A Reconsideration.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1998 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature, June 7-9, 1998, New York.
“To what extent should Hebrew language structure be introduced in the classroom, and in what manner?” The Acquisition of Hebrew as a First and Second Language, University of Maryland at College Park, March 1, 1998.
“Phonological and non-phonological factors in Israeli Hebrew casual reduction.” Association for Jewish Studies, December 21-23, 1997, Boston.
S. Bolozky and Noemi Schwarz. “Towards Individualized Teaching of Hebrew as a Second Language?” Post-Congress on Problems of Teaching Modern Hebrew, August 5-7, 1997, Jerusalem.
“Bablat: on the Centrality of the Vowel /a/ in Israeli Hebrew.” Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, July 29-August 5, 1997, Jerusalem.
“How do Hebrew speakers mark and identify hif`il?” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1997 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature, June 1-3, 1997, LA.
“Surface geminates (dagesh xazaq) in Israeli Hebrew.” Association for Jewish Studies, December 15-17, 1996, Boston.
“Statistical evidence for morphological productivity: relevance for teaching.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1996 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature, June 2-4, 1996, Memphis.
Shmuel Bolozky and Galila Mor. “Measuring word-formation productivity in Israeli Hebrew: the case of resultatives.” Association for Jewish Studies, December 17-19, 1995, Boston.
“Are there any uses for slang in teaching Hebrew as a foreign language?” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1995 International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature, May 28-30, 1995, Orlando.
“Can a Semitic language borrow a discontinuous word-formation pattern?” 23rd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 24-26, 1994, Salt Lake City.
“On the ‘negative’ character of Israeli Hebrew slang.” Association for Jewish Studies, December 18-20, 1994, Boston.
“Direct teaching of grammatical structures in Hebrew instruction.” International Conference on the Teaching of Hebrew in Diverse Educational Contexts, June 20-21, 1994, Tel Aviv.
“Describing and teaching the ‘segolates.’” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1994 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, May 29-31, 1994, Berkeley.
“Evidence for productivity in Modern Hebrew word-formation.” Association for Jewish Studies, December 12-14, 1993, Boston.
“On teaching the diminutive suffix +on#.” Post-Congress on Problems of Teaching Modern Hebrew, June 29-July 1, 1993, Jerusalem.
“Modern Hebrew as a Semitic language: Genealogy and Typology.” Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, June 22-29, 1993, Jerusalem.
“Traces of ‘gutturals’ in Israeli Hebrew and implications for teaching.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1993 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, Ann Arbor, June 6-8, 1993.
“Morphological categories in teaching Modern Hebrew.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1992 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, York University, May 31-June 2, 1992.
“Global and local strategies in Modern Hebrew word-formation.” 20th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 31-April 3, 1992, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Teaching Poems by H. N. Bialik with Penultimate Syllable Accent.” Annual Conference of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, July 14-19, 1991, Jerusalem.
“On the Semitic Nature of Modern Hebrew Word-Formation.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, June 9-10, 1991, Barnard College.
“On Representing a, e and Zero-Vowels in Modern Hebrew Orthography.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1991 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, June 2-4, 1991, Atlanta.
“Continuous and Discontinuous Word-Formation in Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 6-8, 1991, Berkeley.
“Trends in Modern Hebrew Word-Formation.” Annual Conference of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, July 9-16, 1990, Jerusalem.
“On the Teaching of David Vogel's Poetry in a Class of Modern Hebrew Literature.” Annual Conference of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, July 9-16, 1990, Jerusalem.
“On the Teaching of Seldom-realized Glides in Modern Hebrew.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1990 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, June 3-5, 1990, New York City.
“Casual and Formal Vowel Reduction in Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 28-31, 1990, Atlanta.
S. Bolozky and M. Jiyad. “More on Agentives, Instrumentals and Locatives in Modern Hebrew and in Southern Iraqi Arabic.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 28-31, 1990, Atlanta.
“On Occasional Morphological Shifts in the Noun System of Colloquial Modern Hebrew.” Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 16-24, 1989, Jerusalem.
“Teaching Noun Formation Patterns and their Semantic Correlations in Modern Hebrew.” Pre-Congress on Hebrew Language, August 13-16, 1989, Jerusalem.
“On Universal and Language-Specific Parameters in Testing Foreign Language Proficiency.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1989 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, May 28-30, 1989, Spertus College of Judaica.
S. Bolozky & O. Schwarzwald. “On the derivation of Hebrew words with the +ut suffix.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 15-16, 1989, New Orleans.
S. Bolozky & M. Jiyad. “Partial mergers of morphological patterns in Modern Hebrew and in some dialects of Arabic.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 15-16, 1989, New Orleans.
“Grammar simplification strategies in the teaching of Modern Hebrew and the Natural Approach.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1988 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, May 29-31, 1988, UCLA.
“Internal arguments for psychological reality of morphological processes in Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference of Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 23-25, 1988, Chicago.
“The morpho-phonological aspect of the transition from 'Basic' to 'Regular' Hebrew.” Workshop on University Teaching of Hebrew Language (International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization), July 13-22, 1987, Jerusalem.
“On the teaching of gender in Hebrew numerals.” The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 1987 International Conference on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, May 31-June 2, 1987, Brandeis University.
“On V(C) syllables in Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 25-27, 1987, Los Angeles.
“A Phonetic ‘conspiracy’ and related tendencies in Modern Hebrew.” American Oriental Society, March 22-25, 1987, Los Angeles.
“On discontinuous canonical patterns in the Modern Hebrew noun.” Linguistic Society of America, December 27-30, 1986, New York.
“Awareness of linguistic phenomena in the native language and its implications for learning Hebrew.” Workshop on University Teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature (International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization), July 7-18, 1986, Jerusalem.
“Partially vocalized representation of Modern Hebrew orthography to beginners.” The 1986 National Conference on University teaching of Hebrew Language and Literature, May 18-20, 1986, New York.
S. Bolozky and O. Schwarzwald. “On syllable weight and rhythmic stress in casual Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 12-13, 1986, New Haven.
“On the weakening of canonical forms in the Modern Hebrew noun.” American Oriental Society, March 9-12, 1986, New Haven.
“Morpho-semantic regularity in lexical innovation: an illustration from Modern Hebrew noun formation.” Middle East Studies Association of North America, November 22-26, 1985, New Orleans.
“Strict cyclicity in casual speech processes: the case of Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, April 17-18, 1985, Ann Arbor.
“Semantic productivity and word frequency in Modern Hebrew.” American Oriental Society, April 14-17, 1985, Ann Arbor.
“On the abstractness of phonetic representation: Modern Hebrew [ε].” Linguistic Society of America, December 27-30, 1984, Baltimore.
“Defining deletable vowels in casual Hebrew speech.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 28-29, 1984, Seattle.
S. Bolozky and A. Haydar. “Gender neutralization in numerals in Modern Hebrew and in colloquial Lebanese Arabic.” American Oriental Society, March 25-28, 1984, Seattle.
“Consequences of ’/`/h loss in Modern and Biblical Hebrew.” North American conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics and the American Oriental Society, March 18-23, 1983, Baltimore.
“Activity and control in Modern Hebrew verb formation.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics and the American Oriental Society, March 28-31, 1982, Austin, Texas.
“Subject pronouns in colloquial Hebrew.” Linguistic Society of America, December 28-30, 1981, New York.
“Rate and style in accelerated Hebrew and English speech.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, March 13-15, 1981, Boston.
G. N. Saad and S. Bolozky. “Theoretical implications of morphological causativization in Arabic and Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, April 13-14, 1980, San Francisco.
“On rhythmic stress in Modern Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, April 13-14, 1980, San Francisco.
“On the new imperative in colloquial Hebrew.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, April 22-23, 1979, St. Louis.
“The tempo aspect of fast speech.” Symposium on Musical Psycho-Acoustics at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique and the Groupement des Acousticiens de Langue Française, July 11-13, 1977, Paris.
“Word formation strategies in the Hebrew verb system: denominative verbs.” North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, April 24-25, 1977, Ithaca, New York.
“To what extent is fast speech governed by language-particular rules? (On surface phonetic constraints in fast speech).” Linguistic Society of America, December 28-30, 1976. Philadelphia.
“On the status of fast speech in natural generative phonology.” North Eastern Linguistic Society, November 5-7, 1976. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
PH.D. DISSERTATION (unpublished)
“Categorial limitations on rules in the phonology of Modern Hebrew.” University of Illinois, 1972.
BOOKS
2005. Edna Coffin and Shmuel Bolozky, A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. xiv + 447.
1999. Measuring Productivity in Word Formation: the Case of Israeli Hebrew (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 27). Leiden: Brill. pp. ix, 253.
TEXTBOOKS
1996. 501 Hebrew Verbs. Hauppauge: Barron’s Educational Series. pp. xvii, 910.
1971. `Ivrit BeMa`arumeha. Textbook for beginners in Modern Hebrew. Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois. (unpublished)
EDITED BOOK
2004. Textures and Meaning: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (electronic publication), ed. Leonard H. Ehrlich, Shmuel Bolozky, Robert A. Rothstein, Murray Schwartz, Jay R. Berkovitz, James E. Young. xi + 462 pp.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
(To appear) “Israeli Hebrew morphology.” In A. S. Kaye (ed.), Morphologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus). Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
2003. “Phonological and morphological variation in spoken Hebrew,” B. H. Hary (ed.), Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilation of the Corpus of Spoken Hebrew (CoSIH), pp 119-156. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press. ENGLISH VERSION OF 2002 ITEM BELOW.
2002. “shonut fonologit umorfologit ba`ivrit hameduberet (Phonological and morphological variation in spoken Hebrew),” S. Izre’el (ed.), Te`uda 18: medabrim `ivrit -- lexeker halashon hameduberet vehashonut haleshonit beyisra’el (Speaking Hebrew: Studies in Colloquial Hebrew and Linguistic Variation in Israel), pp 239-278. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press.
1997. “Israeli Hebrew phonology.” Chapter 17 in A. S. Kaye and P. Daniels (eds.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Vol. 1. pp 287-311.
1978. “Some aspects of Modern Hebrew phonology.” Chapter II in R. Aronson Berman, Modern Hebrew Structure. Tel Aviv: Universities Publishing Projects. pp 11-67.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND REVIEW ARTICLES
(To appear) “Nitpa`el vehitpa`el ba`ivrit hayisre’elit (Nitpa`el and hitpa`el in Israeli Hebrew)”. Special anniversary volume to be published by Bar-Ilan University Press.
(To appear) “mirkuz hatnu`a i ba`ivrit hameduberet (Centralization of the vowel i in colloquial Hebrew).” Special Hebrew University anniversary volume.
2006/2007 “Te’ur hacliliyut bafonolofya šel ha`ivrit hayisre’elit besifro šel xaiim rozén Ha`ivrit šelanu (The description of sonority of sonority in the phonology of Israeli Hebrew in Haiim B. Rosén’s Ha`ivrit Shelanu.)” Ha`ivrit ve’axyoteha VI-VII. pp 239-248.
2006. “A Note on Initial Consonant Clusters in Israeli Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies XLVII. pp 227-235.
2006. “Ha’araxa pretonit be`ivrit yisre’elit meduberet (Pretonic lengthening in colloquial Israeli Hebrew).” Mexkarim Belashon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 10. pp 1-7.
2005. "The role of casual speech in evaluating naturalness of phonologival processes: the phonetic reality of the schwa in Israel Hebrew." SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics (electronic publication). 2:3. pp 1-13.
2005. “Linear first-time derivation of verbs and consonant cluster preservation in Israeli Hebrew.” In D. Ravid and H. Shyldkrot (eds.) Perspectives on language and language development. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp 35-43.
2004. "Bniyat korpus mugdar le'ivrit'elit vešimuš bo bevalšanut 'ivrit uvehora' at 'ivrit kesafa zara (Building up a limited corpus for Israeli Hebrew, and using it in Hebrew linguistic research and in teaching Hebrew as a foreign language.)" Hebrew Higher Education 11 (2004). pp 37-57.
2004. “Surface geminates (dagesh forte) in Israeli Hebrew.” In Textures and Meaning: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, electronic publication, ed. Leonard H. Ehrlich, Shmuel Bolozky, Robert A. Rothstein, Murray Schwartz, Jay R. Berkovitz, James E. Young. 2004. pp 343-349.
2003. “tofa`ot leshoniyot tiv`iyot, hameshutafot la`ivrit hayisre’elit hameduberet vela`ivrit hamikra’it (Natural linguistic phenomena found in both colloquial Israeli Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew.” Hadoar 82:2. pp 30-36.
2003. “The ‘roots’ of denominative Hebrew verbs.” In J. Shimron (ed.), Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based Morphology (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series, Vol. 28). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp 131-146.
2003. “tsimcum unešilat `itsurim bedibur `ivri yisre’eli she’eyno mukpad (Consonant reduction and elision in casual Israeli Hebrew speech).” In Yaakov Bentolila Jubilee Volume, eds. D. Sivan and P-I. Halevy-Kirtchuk, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press. pp 49-52.
2002. “Linguistic phenomena in Israeli Hebrew as reflected in an early Israeli song.” Hebrew Higher Education 10. pp 101-116.
2001. “`od `al hashva’at milonim kimdad produktiviyut bitetsurat milim ba`ivrit hayisre’elit (More on dictionary comparison as a productivity measure in Israeli Hebrew word formation).” Ha`ivrit ve’axyoteha vol. 1: Dictionaries and Lexicography, ed. Y. Avishur. Haifa: University of Haifa. pp. 55-68.
2000. “Stress placement as a morphological and semantic marker in Israeli Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 41. pp. 53-82.
2000. “hayesh `erex koshšehu lehityaxasut lisleng behora’at `ivrit kesafa zara (Is there any benefit in referring to slang while teaching Hebrew as a foreign language?).” Talpiyot College Annual 11, volume in honor of M. Z. Kaddari, eds. A. Mundschein et al. pp 253-262.
1999. “On the Special Status of the Vowels a and e in Israeli Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 40. pp. 233-250.
1998. “shxixut milim uproduktiviyut morfologit: hashlaxot le`ibud tekstim behora’a (Word frequency and morphological frequency: implications to the processing of texts for teaching purposes).” Hebrew Higher Education. 9. pp. 141-147.
1995. “`Ivrit yisre’elit kesafa shemit: gene’alogya vetipologya (Israeli Hebrew as a Semitic language: genealogy and typology).” Mexkarim BeLashon (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 7. pp. 121-134.
1995. “Hasegoliyyim -- gzira kavit ’o mesoreget? (The segolates -- linear or discontinuous derivation?)” O. R. Schwarzwald and Y. Schlesinger (eds.), Hadassah Kantor Jubilee Book. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University. pp. 17-26.
1995. “Direct instruction of grammatical structure to students of Hebrew as a foreign language.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 7-8. pp. 30-38.
1995. “Traces of ‘gutturals’ in Modern Hebrew and implications for teaching.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 7-8. pp. 67-72.
1994. “On the formation of diminutives in Modern Hebrew morphology.” Hebrew Studies 35. pp. 47-63.
1994. Review article of P. Wexler, The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew: A Slavic Language in Search of a Semitic Past. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. In Russell A. Stone and Walter P. Zenner (eds.), Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship: Books on Israel, Vol. III. pp 63-85.
1993. “Teaching meter in Bialik’s poetry to students of Hebrew as a foreign language.” Bulletin of Hebrew Higher Education 5/6. pp 47-56.
1992. S. Bolozky and O. R. Schwarzwald. “On the derivation of Hebrew forms with the +ut suffix.” Hebrew Studies 33. pp 51-69.
1991. “Casual and formal vowel deletion in Modern Hebrew.” Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, ed. Alan S. Kaye. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Vol I, pp 189-198.
1991. “On the teaching of Modern Hebrew aleph.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4:2. pp 7-10.
1990. S. Bolozky and O. R. Schwarzwald. “On vowel assimilation and deletion in casual Modern Hebrew.” Hebrew Annual Review 12. pp 23-48.
1990. “`Al simun hatnu`ot a ve-e ve`al simun he`der tnu`a baktiv shel ha`ivrit haxadasha (On marking the vowels a and e and on marking the absence of a vowel in Modern Hebrew orthography).” Lashon Ve`Ivrit 5. pp 34-37.
1990. “On occasional morphological shifts in the noun system of colloquial Modern Hebrew.” Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 16-24, 1989, Division D:I. pp. 47-54.
1990. “Hora’at hamishkalim umashma`uyoteyhem be`ivrit xadasha (Teaching word-formation patterns and their meanings in Modern Hebrew).” Hed Ha’ulpan 59. pp. 34-40.
1990. S. Bolozky and G. Hermon. Review-article of L. Glinert, The Grammar of Modern Hebrew, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Hebrew Studies 31. pp 156-170.
1989. “On universal and language-specific parameters in testing foreign language oral proficiency.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4:1. pp 23-27.
1989. “Grammar simplification strategies in the teaching of Modern Hebrew and the Natural Approach.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 3:1/2. pp 15-19.
1987. “On the teaching of gender in Hebrew numerals and other phenomena simplified in semi-standard native speech.” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 2:1. pp 7-11.
1986. S. Bolozky and A.F. Haydar. “Colloquial gender neutralization in the numeral systems of Modern Hebrew and Lebanese Arabic.” Al-`Arabiyya 19. pp 19-28.
1986. “Semantic productivity and word frequency in Modern Hebrew verb formation.” Hebrew Studies 27:1. pp 38-46.
1986. “Awareness of linguistic phenomena in the native language and its implications for learning Hebrew.” Bulletin of Hebrew Higher Education 1:2. pp 14-17.
1985. “The domain of casual processes in Modern Hebrew.” Linguistic Analysis 15:1. pp 19-27.
1984. “Subject pronouns in colloquial Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 25. pp 126-130.
1984. G. N. Saad and S. Bolozky. “Causativization and transitivization in Arabic and Modern Hebrew.” Afroasiatic Linguistics 9. pp 101-110.
1983. S. Bolozky and G. N. Saad. “On active and non-active causativizable verbs in Arabic and Hebrew.” Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik 10. pp 71-79.
1982. “Rate and style in accelerated speech.” Occasional Working Papers in Cognitive Science. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. pp 48-76.
1982. “Strategies of Modern Hebrew verb formation.” Hebrew Annual Review 6. pp 69-79.
1982. “Remarks on rhythmic stress in Modern Hebrew.” Journal of Linguistics 18. pp 275-289.
1981. “Note on frequency in phonetic change.” Hebrew Annual Review 5. pp 15-19.
1981. Pollatsek, A., Bolozky, S., Well, A.D., and Rayner, K. “Asymmetries in the perceptual span for Israeli readers.” Brain and Language 14:1. pp 174-180.
1980. “On the autonomy of the tense paradigm: the Modern Hebrew evidence.” Lingua 51. pp 115-123.
1980. “On the monophonematic interpretation of Modern Hebrew Affricates.” Linguistic Inquiry 11:4. pp 793-799.
1980. “Paradigm coherence: evidence from Modern Hebrew.” Afroasiatic Linguistics 7:4. pp 103-126.
1979. “On the new imperative in colloquial Hebrew.” Hebrew Annual Review 3. pp 17-24.
1978. “A note on sibilant fricatives.” Glossa 12:2. pp 205-216.
1978. “Word formation strategies in the Hebrew verb system: denominative verbs.” Afroasiatic Linguistics (Monograph Journals of the Near East) 5:3. pp 111-136.
1977. “Fast speech as a function of tempo in natural generative phonology.” Journal of Linguistics 13:2. pp 217-238.
1977. “On the status of fast speech in natural generative phonology.” Publications of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp 33-47.
1975. “A note on archi-segments.” Glossa 9:2. pp 253-258.
1972. “On morphological and phonetic constraints in Modern Hebrew.” Hebrew Computational Linguistics 6. pp 1-12.
1972. G. Ben-Horin and S. Bolozky. “Hebrew b, p, k -- rule opacity or data opacity? (A reply to Paul Kiparsky).” Hebrew Computational Linguistics 5. pp 24-35.
1972. “i/e alternation with a in the Hebrew verb and the question of vacuous generalization.” Hebrew Computational Linguistics 5. pp 1-19.
PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS
2004. Uzzi Ornan, Hamila ha’axrona: mangenon hatetsura shel hamila ha`ivrit (The Final Word: Mechanism for Hebrew Word Generation). Haifa, Israel: Haifa University Press, 2003. Hebrew Studies. xlv. pp 285-287.
1996. Alan Mintz, (ed.), Hebrew in America: Perspectives and Prospects. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. Shofar 14:2. pp 175-177.
1994. Angel Saenz-Badillos, A History of the Hebrew Language, trans. John Elwolde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. The Modern Language Journal 78:4. pp. 555-556.
1994. Edna Amir Coffin, Encounters in Modern Hebrew Level 2. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993. The Modern Language Journal 78. p 263.
1993. Edna Amir Coffin, Encounters in Modern Hebrew Level 1. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992. The Modern Language Journal 77. pp 390-391.
1993. Ora Rodrigue-Schwarzwald and Michael Sokoloff. Milon LeMunaxey balšanut vedikduq (A Dictionary of Linguistic and Grammatical Terms). Even-Yehuda, Israel: D. Reches, 1992. Bulletin of Hebrew Higher Education 5/6. pp 99-101.
1993. Hilda Weil, Xoveret Hadikduq (The Grammar Booklet), Jerusalem/New York: Feldheim Publishers, 1990. Bulletin of Hebrew Higher Education 5/6. pp 112-113.
1992. Hebrew Linguistics: A Journal for Hebrew Descriptive, Computational and Applied Linguistics. No. 31-32. Maya Fruchtman, ed. Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1991. Hebrew Studies 33. pp 119-121.
1990. Rivers, W. and M. Nahir. Teaching Hebrew: A Practical Guide. Tel Aviv: Universities Publishing Projects, 1989. The Modern Language Journal 74:1. pp 117-118.
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