ד"ר ילנה אבן-סימקין

Since 2019, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Education, Bar Ilan University. Research Topic: “The Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities in Individuals with Typical and Atypical Development.”  
2013-2015, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Research Topic:  "English Past Tense Inflectional Processing as a Clinical Marker in SLI Hebrew-Speaking EFL Learners." 
2012, Ph.D. (Summa cum Laude), Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Topic:  Internal Vowel Alternations in Nominal and Verbal Forms  According to the Sign-Oriented Theory and the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior. Supervisor: Prof. Yishai Tobin. 
2006, M.A. (Magna cum Laude), Degree, Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 
2003, B.A. Degree, Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 

Previous research and development activities 
2013-2015, English Past Tense Inflectional Processing as a Clinical Marker.    2008-2011, Internal Vowel Alternations in Nominal and Verbal Forms. 
2004-2006, Synonyms, A Semiotic and Discourse Approach. 
Present research and development activities 
2019-2020, The Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities in Individuals with Typical and Atypical Development. 

 2014, Travel funding from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,    
 Ben-Gurion University, to participate in the European Conference on Language   Learning (IAFOR), Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom. 
 2014, Travel grant from the Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion   University of the Negev, to present a paper at the European Conference on Language    Learning (IAFOR), Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.  
 2014, Travel funding from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,    
  Ben-Gurion University, to participate in the 3rd International Conference on Meaning   and Knowledge Representation, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. 
 2014, Travel grant from the Department of Foreign Literatures &  
  Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, to present a paper at the 3rd    International Conference on Meaning and Knowledge Representation, Universidad   Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. 
 2010, Travel funding from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,    
  Ben-Gurion University, to participate in the International Columbia School Conference,   Rutgers University. 
 2010, Travel grant from the Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion   University of the Negev, to present a paper at the International Columbia School    Conference. Rutgers University, United States.  
 2010, Travel funding from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion  University, to participate in the 6th International Contrastive Linguistic Conference    
 (ICLC6), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.  
 2010, Travel grant from the Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics, Ben-Gurion 
University of the Negev, to present a paper at the 6th International Contrastive   Linguistic Conference (ICLC6), Freie Universität Berlin.  
  2009, Travel funding from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion    University, to attend the 40th Poznán Linguistic Meeting (PLM2009) at Adam     Mickiewicz University.  
  2009, Travel grant from the Department of Foreign Literatures &  
   Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, to present a paper  
   at the 40th Poznán Linguistic Meeting at Adam Mickiewicz University. 

Peer reviewed papers  
Even-Simkin, E., A Morpho-phonological Past Tense Processing as a Clinical Marker in SLI EFL Learners. Journal of Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, pp. 1-15, London: Taylor & Francis Group Publishing, 2017. 
Even-Simkin, E., A Metalinguistic Character of the 'Irregular' Past Tense Forms in English. Journal of Modern Education Review. New York: Academic Star Publishing Company, pp. 
142-165, 2015.
Even-Simkin, E., The Common Semantic Feature of 'Irregular' Noun Plural Forms in English. The IAFOR European Conference Series 2014: Language Learning, pp. 129-142, 2014. 
Even-Simkin, E., Internal vowel alternation as a systematic phonological marker in English. US-China Foreign Language, 8, pp. 1405-1411, 2012.  
Even-Simkin, E and Tobin, Y., Common semantic denominators of the internal vowel alternation system in English. Poznán Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. 47(2), pp. 
308-330, 2011.
Even-Simkin, E and Tobin, Y., Phonological Aspects of Internal Vowel Alternation in English. In Wai-Sum Lee and Eric Zee (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 17-21 August 2011. Hong Kong. (pp. 647-650. 2011) (CD ROM), 2011. 
Books/collective volumes 
Books/collective volumes (Authorship or editorship) 
Even-Simkin, E., Synonyms as a Pathway to Consciousness: A Discourse Approach. (137 pages). Berlin: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015. 
Even-Simkin, E and Tobin, Y., The regularity of the 'irregular' verbs and nouns in English. (273 pages). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.  
Chapters in books 
Even-Simkin, E., A Diachronic Analysis of Internal Vowel Alternation in English Verbal Past Tense Conjugation System. In Studies in Language Variation and Change 2: Shifting, Switching and Alternating Patterns in the History of English, ed. Elise Louviot and Catherine Delesse, pp. 127-150, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. 
Even-Simkin, E., An Iconic and Systematic Feature of Irregular Forms in English. In Carlos Periñán-Pascual & Eva María Mestre-Mestre, Understanding meaning and knowledge representation: from theoretical and cognitive linguistics to natural language processing, pp. 209-228. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.  
Even-Simkin, E and Tobin, Y., Internal vowel alternation as classification in nominal and verbal systems according to the theory of phonology as human behavior. In K. Dębowska-Kozłowska & K.Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (eds.), On words and sounds: A selection of papers from the fortieth PLM 2009, pp. 90-133.  Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 
Even-Simkin, E and Tobin, Y., Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) Nominal (umlaut) and Verbal (ablaut) forms in Old and Modern English.  In B.de Jonge and Y. Tobin (eds.), Linguistic theory and empirical evidence, pp. 45-81. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011.  
Encyclopedic Entries: 
Even-Simkin, E., Clinical Phonology. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders, ed. Martin J. Ball and Jack S. Damico, SAGE Publications, Inc. 2019, pp. 359-362. 
Even-Simkin, E., Classification Systems. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders, ed. Martin J. Ball and Jack S. Damico, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 339-342. 
Even-Simkin, E., Semiotics. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders, ed. Martin J. Ball and Jack S. Damico, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 1692-
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English for Academic Purposes courses, SCE – Sami Shamoon College for Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel:
Pre-Basic, Basic, Advanced A, Advanced B