Ronit Webman Shafran, Dr.
Dr. Ronit Webman Shafran is the Head of the English Language and Literature Department of Beit Berl College in Israel and lecturer in English Linguistics. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in English Linguistics from the Hebrew University and a Doctorate in Linguistics from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation dealt with Prosody and Parsing in a Double PP Construction. Her research interests include human sentence processing (in particular, the syntax-prosody interface), and multilingual pragmatics.
Refereed Publications
- Webman-Shafran, R. & Fodor, D. J. (2016). Phrase length and prosody in on-line ambiguity resolution. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(3), 447-474. PDF
- Stavans, A. & Webman Shafran, R. (2018). The pragmatics of requests and refusals in multilingual settings. International Journal of Multilingualism, 15 (2), 149-168.
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2017.1338708
- Webman Shafran, R. (2018). Implicit prosody and parsing in silent reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 41(3), 546-563.
- Webman Shafran, R. (2019). Level of directness and the use of please in requests in English by native speakers of Arabic and Hebrew. Journal of Pragmatics, 148, 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.020
Other publications
- Otheguy, R., Slomanson, P. & Webman R. (2005). The use of the Yiddish language in Jewish schools in the United States: A report prepared for the Fishman Foundation by the Research Institute of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS). New York: City University of New York.
- Webman, R. (2007) Reading Across the Curriculum: Addressing ACT Proficiency. (L. Hirsch Ed.) Hostos Community College, CUNY.
- (Handbook on curriculum development and the reading and writing connection)
- Precel, K., Webman, R., Eshet, Y. and Engelberg-Behr, B. (2007). Making reading easier: The influence of vowelization in a deep language orthography on online text comprehension, Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction, Part IV, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 969-974. PDF
- Precel, K., Webman, R., Eshet, Y., and Engelberg-Behr, B. (2009). How should I read this word? The influence of vowelization in deep language orthography on online text comprehension. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Universal Access in HCI, HCII 2009, part III, LNCS 5616, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 110-119.