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Portrait of Dr. Yara Ben-Ami

Postdoctoral · joined 2024

Dr. Yara Ben-Ami

Postdoctoral Fellow

Articulatory feature systems, mixed-origin writing, and comparative orthographic analysis.

STATUSACTIVELOCATIONWyman Hall

PROFILE

Dr. Yara Ben-Ami is a postdoctoral fellow at Wyman Laboratory. Their work centers on articulatory feature systems, mixed-origin writing, and comparative orthographic analysis. They support interdisciplinary research across the laboratory's measurement, computation, and field programs.

RESEARCH / RESPONSIBILITIES

  • language systems
  • memory and cognition
  • cultural transmission
  • articulatory feature systems, mixed-origin writing, and comparative orthographic analysis

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Linguistics — University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Cognitive Science — Hebrew University of Jerusalem

CURRENT PROJECTS

WCH-327 Comparative Script SystemsWCH-351 Pituffik Inscription Corpus

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

WCH-327 Featural Script Systems and Articulatory Geometry: A Comparative SurveyWCH-347 Classification of Articulatory Features in Mixed-Origin ScriptsWCH-361 Recurrent Structure in an Unclassified Inscription Corpus from Northwest Greenland

CONTACT

yara.benami@wymanlabs.org

Wyman Hall 261
Wyman Laboratory

FALL 2026 / TEACHING & SEMINARS

2026-11-19Recurrent Structure in Unclassified ScriptsWyman Hall 108

RECENT ACTIVITY

From the Wyman record.

2026-09-28Marlowe Foundation adds support for comparative epigraphyFunding2026-09-26Pituffik inscription corpus enters comparative analysisResearch2026-09-19October methods colloquium schedule postedEvents