Associate Professor, The Department of English Literature and Linguistics and The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her research interests are in language acquisition by monolingual and bilingual children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI). She is particularly interested in linguistic features which can disentangle bilingualism and SLI, with a focus on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics, and in the impact of internal and external variance on success in child second language acquisition.