Yair Haendler CURRICULUM VITÆ (Last update: December 2017) 1. Contact information Address: Université Paris Diderot Paris 7 Case 7031 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13 E-mail Websites: yairhen@gmail.com www.yairhaendler.com www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/gens/haendler 2. Personal Date of birth: March 27 th, 1982. Place of birth: Petach Tikva, Israel. Civil status: married. Current residence: Paris, France. Citizenship: German and Israeli. 3. Research interests Comprehension and production of syntactically complex structures (relative clauses; passives; wh-questions). On-line sentence processing (eye-tracking; self-paced reading). The impact of discourse-related factors on syntactic processing. Processing and interpretation of pronouns, demonstratives and other referring expressions. Language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children. Multilingual aphasia. 4. Current occupation Since March 2017 Postdoctoral researcher and lab manager at Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, working in the Labex EFL project (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics). 1 / 7
5. Education 2013-2017 PhD, Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam. Project title: Effects of Embedded Pronouns on Relative Clause Processing: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Children and Adults. 2011-2012 M.Sc., International Program for Experimental and Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam. Project title: The acquisition of passives in German: Adjectival and verbal passives are understood by 4-year-olds. 2006-2010 B.A., Foreign languages, literature and cultures, University La Sapienza, Rome. Project title: Reflections on the V2 phenomenon in German. 6. Internships and other practical experience 2012-2014 Shravan Vasishth s lab, University of Potsdam: Carrying out eye-tracking and EEG experiments. 2011-2012; 2015-2016 Flavia Adani s lab, University of Potsdam: Data coding and organization, carrying out eye-tracking experiments with children and adults. 2014 Visiting student at the Centro Interdisciplinare di Studi Cognitivi sul Linguaggio, University of Siena, Italy: Conducting an experiment with adults and children. 2010 Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome: Planning research projects on language disorders, editing articles and book chapters in preparation, coordination of a project on the analysis of spontaneous speech in deaf preschool children with cochlear implant. 7. Professional services Paper reviewer for: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. Lingua / Glossa. Conference reviewer for: Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG). 2 / 7
8. Professional skills Testing methods (experimental design, data collection and analysis): Visual-world paradigm & reading experiments using eye-tracking with SMI RED-250 / RED-m / SR Research EyeLink. Self-paced reading. Elicited production. Picture-selection / sentence-picture matching. Statistical methods for data analysis: (Generalized) linear mixed-effects models. Bayesian data analysis. Special software: R, Stan, Audacity, PRAAT, Photoshop, Flash. SMI Experiment Suite software package; SR Research Experiment Builder. Linger. Additional practical skills: EEG: hands-on experience in data collection (preparation of participants; troubleshooting during testing). 9. Other research activities 2012-2017 Co-investigator in the project Facilitation and competition across languages in multilingual aphasia (funded by NIH). Principal investigator: Mira Goral, City University of New York. 10. Grants and scholarships 2015 Open Access Publication Fund, University of Potsdam through the German Research Foundation (DFG): Full funding of a publication in Frontiers in Psychology. 2013 2017 Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk: Full scholarship for the completion of PhD research, for a maximum of 4 years; 7 travel grants for participation in international conferences. 2013 2017 Potsdam Graduate School, University of Potsdam: 8 travel grants for participation in national and international conferences. 2008 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD): Grant for a summer course of German language and regional studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. 3 / 7
11. Publications and conference presentations PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS ARTICLES To appear (2018) Submitted Konrad, I., Haendler, Y. & Donati, C. The acquisition of French ambiguous embedded structures introduced by 'ce que'. Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Adamou, E. & Haendler, Y. Nominal tense: An experimental approach. Linguistic Typology. Under review Conner, P. S., Goral, M., Anema, I., Borodkin, K., Haendler, Y., Knoph, M., Mustelier, C., Paluska, E., Pugach, Y. & Moeyaert, M. The role of language proficiency and linguistic distance in cross-linguistic treatment effects in aphasia. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. Accepted for publication Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Testing the effect of an arbitrary subject pronoun on relative clause comprehension: A study with Hebrew-speaking children. Journal of Child Language. 2016 Adani, F., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Haendler, Y. & Zukowski, A. Elicited production of relative clauses in German: Evidence from typically developing children and children with specific language impairment. First Language 36, 203-227. 2015 Haendler, Y., Kliegl, R. & Adani, F. Discourse accessibility constraints in children s processing of object relative clauses. Frontiers in Psychology 6:860. 2015 Haendler, Y., Kliegl, R. & Adani, F. The impact of pronoun type and grammatical skills on children s processing of object relative clauses. In: Grillo, E. & Jepson, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 218-230). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Grillo, N., Hemforth, B., Pozniak, C., Haendler, Y. & Santi, A. Pseudo relatives are easier than relatives: Evidence from tense. Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Pronoun facilitation in relative clause processing. 4 / 7
Adani, F., Lassotta, R., Haendler, Y., Adelt, A., Stadie, N. & Burchert, F. Locality and Language Acquisition: Developmental Changes in the processing of Relative Clauses in German. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2017 Konrad, I., Haendler, Y. & Donati, C. The acquisition of French ambiguous embedded structures introduced by ce que (poster). 42 nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. 2017 Haendler, Y. Cross-linguistic evidence for effects of impersonal vs. referential pronouns in sentence processing (poster). 30 th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, MA. 2016 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Effects of pronoun referentiality on children's relative clause processing in Hebrew (talk). 41 st Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. 2016 Haendler, Y. Object relative processing between grammatical features and the cognitive mechanism of discourse accessibility (talk). Workshop Sentence complexity at the boundary of grammatical theory and processing: A special challenge for language acquisition, 38 th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Konstanz, Germany. 2015 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Referential properties of pronouns affect sentence processing similarly in children and adults: Comparing 5-year-olds eye movements and adults reading times in Italian (poster). 40 th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. 2015 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Referential properties of pronouns influence sentence processing independently of syntactic complexity: Evidence from Italian adults and children (poster). 21 st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Valletta, Malta. 2014 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. The impact of embedded pronouns on children's relative clause comprehension (talk). Going Romance: 28 th Symposium on Romance Languages, Lisbon, Portugal. 2014 Haendler, Y., Kliegl, R. & Adani, F. The impact of pronoun type on child processing of object relative clauses in German (talk). 39 th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. 5 / 7
2014 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Off-line and On-line Child Comprehension of Object Relative Clauses with Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns (talk). Workshop Experimental and theoretical approaches to relative clauses reconciled, 36 th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Marburg, Germany. 2014 Goral, M., Conner, P. S., Anema, I., Belkina, M., Borodkin, K., Haendler, Y., Knoph, M., Mustelier, C., Paluska, E. & Pugach, Y. Cross-language influences in multilingual aphasia (poster).15 th Science of Aphasia Conference, Venice, Italy. 2014 Conner, P., Goral, M., Anema, I., Mustelier, C., Knoph, M., Borodkin, K., Belkina, M., Haendler, Y., Paluska, E. & Pugach, Y. Code-switching in multilingual aphasia (poster). Academy of Aphasia 52 nd Annual Meeting, Miami, FL. 2014 Adani, F., Haendler, Y. & Stegenwallner-Schütz, M. DP-headed, demonstrative-headed and headless object relative clauses in child German (poster). 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, NL. 2014 Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Accessibility effects through contrasts in the development of referential choices in German (poster). RefNet Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2013 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. The processing of German passives: A study with 4- and 5-year-old children (poster). 38 th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. 2013 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. The acquisition of adjectival and verbal passives in German: Evidence from pointing and eye-tracking (poster). 11 th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain. 2013 Haendler, Y. & Adani, F. Adjectival and verbal passives are understood by German 4-year-olds (poster). 39 th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy. 2010 Caselli, M. C., Rinaldi, P., Varuzza, C., Haendler, Y., Giuliani, A. & Burdo, S. Lexicon and grammar in the spontaneous language of preschool deaf children with cochlear implant (talk). 19 th Conference of the Italian Association of Research and Therapy on Learning Disorders (AIRIPA), Ivrea, Italy. 6 / 7
Languages HEBREW ENGLISH ITALIAN GERMAN native fluent fluent highly proficient Teaching experience 2017 Bayesian linear mixed models fitting with Stan. Workshop for advanced researchers and graduate students. Université Paris Diderot. 2017 Linear mixed-effects models for experimental linguistics. Workshop for undergraduate and graduate students. Université Paris Diderot. 2014-2015 Syntactic Development in Developmental Disorders. Seminar for an undergraduate program (B.Sc.) in Patholinguistics, University of Potsdam. Student advising 2014 Anne Kämpfner (B.Sc. Patholinguistics, University of Potsdam). Title: A corpus analysis of the production of German relative clauses children and adults. 7 / 7