
Prof. Natalia Meir
CV
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2018 – current – Senior Lecturer, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.
2017 – 2018, Post-Doc., Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa (supervisor Dr. Rama Novogrodsky) project title “Linguistic abilities of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), children with High Functioning Autism (ASD), and children with Hearing Impairment (HI): a comparative study.”
2016 - 2017, Post-Doc., Bar-Ilan University, GIF Grant (PI: Dr. Galit W. Sassoon): Dimensions and gradability in grammar and cognition: a behavioral and ERP study on language processing. ( in collaboration with Dr. David Anaki).
2015 - 2018 – External Lecturer, the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.
2013 – 2018 - External Lecturer, Department of Communication Disorders (Language and Speech Pathology and Audiology), Hadassah College
2014 – 2016 - Consultant - ISF 863/14– PI1 “Disentangling Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and socioeconomic influences on language acquisition and emergent literacy among preschool children with and without SLI from two bilingual disadvantaged populations"
2013 – Teaching Assistant – Psycholinguistics (BA Program), Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University.
2011-2014 – Research Coordinator - GIF 1113/2010 “How can a teacher tell if a bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years”.
2012 – 2016, PhD. Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University. PhD Dissertation: Linguistic profiles of
bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking children: effects of bilingualism and SLI (advisor: Prof. Sharon Armon-Lotem)
2007 – 2011 MA (Summa Cum Laude), Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University. Thesis: Discourse Markers in Narrative of Bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking pre-school children. (advisor: Prof. Joel Walters).
1994-1999 BA, English Department, Moscow State Pedagogical University (Russia).
Research
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE / ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
2017 - Internship – City University of New York (CUNY), The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island. (Dr. Irina Sekerina) "Acquisition of Case morphology in bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking children: an eye-tracking study".
2008-2010 – Research Assistant - BMBF funded project “Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel.”
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2022-2024 – Member of the Young Forum of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2021-2022 – Bar-Ilan University`s Outstanding Lecturer
2018-2021 The Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers
2017 The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities: An internship award
2017 Institutional Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Haifa
2017 Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 26 (FASL26): conference travel award
2017 COST IS1406 “Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond”: training school award
2015 Bar-Ilan Rector Prize for Excellence in Academic Studies
2014 Wolf Fund Scholarship for Academic Excellence
2012 Bar-Ilan University President's Scholarship to Outstanding PhD Students
RESEARCH GRANTS
2021-2022 German-Israel Foundation (GIF): No. I-260-104.4-2021 “Multilingual families` response to COVID-19: New Opportunities and Challenges” Role: PI / co-PI Vladislava Maria Warditz (Universität Potsdam, Germany)
2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No. 552/21 “Towards Understanding Heritage Language Development: The Case of Child and Adult Heritage Russian in Israel and the USA” Role: PI
2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No. 552/21 International Cooperation Grants Program: Role: PI (CI: Prof. Maria Polinsky)
2021-2024 – Israel Science Foundation (ISF): No. 760/21/ the New-Faculty Equipment Grants Program “Monolingual and Bilingual Language Processing: An eye-tracking lab” Role: PI.
Last Updated Date : 06/03/2025