About the group
The group was active in the period 2004-2024. The research field is continued under the Language and Cognition research group at ILN.
The research group consisted of researchers and PhD students at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, and also included researchers from collaborating institutions.
The Research Group in Clinical Linguistics and Language Acquisition conducted research on:
- Typical and atypical speech and language development in children
- Atypical speech and language as a result of brain damage in adults, compared to neurologically healthy adults
Clinical Linguistics
Recent estimates from the Statistical Office of the European Union show that there are 16 million people in the EU with a speech or language disability severe enough to affect their daily lives at school and at work, and their relationship with other people.
Similar estimates for Norway are not available, but there is no reason to assume that Norway differs from the rest of Europe in this respect.
Given this, it is in the interest of society to secure a high standard of therapeutic provisions for communication disabilities.
The expertise of phoneticians and linguists can expand our knowledge of the nature of speech and language disabilities and provide principled guidelines for the assessment and remediation of this clinical group.
From a purely linguistic point of view, the study of speech and language of clinical groups is of interest because it can throw light on normal language abilities.
Cooperation
The research group cooperated with a number of institutions, either through permanent cooperation agreements, or through various projects and networks.
Partners
- Bredtvet Resource Center
- Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo
- Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
- The Memory Clinic, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo
- University of Bergen, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, c/ Janne von Koss Torkildsen
- University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Center for Child Language, c/ Dorthe Bleses
- Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, c/ Jim Scobie, Natasha Zharkova, Alan Wrench
- St Petersburg State University, Department of Linguistics, c/ Tatiana Chernigovskaya
- University of Tampere, c/ Anna-Maija Korpijaakko-Huuhka
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, c/ Mila Vulchanova
- University of York, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, c/ Marilyn Vihman
Networks
Collaboration of aphasia trialists (CATs)
Funded by COST (2012-2015, as IS1208) and the Tavistock trust for aphasia (2016-2020). Participants from the research group: Monica Norvik, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Valantis Findanis, Marianne Lind, Ingvild Røste.
Webpage for "Collaboration of aphasia trialists" (aphasiatrials.org)
Nordic research network on ethnicity and the dementias
Financed by the Nordic Welfare Center. Participants from the research group: Pernille Hansen and Anne Marie Landmark.
Webpages for the network (nordicwelfare.org)
The DELAD initiative
Financed by the Swedish Riksbanken Jubileumsfond and CLARIN. Participants from the research group: Kristian Emil Kristoffersen and Pernille Hansen.
Webpages for the network (delad.ruhosting.nl)
The European network on Communicative Development Inventories (CDI)
Participants from the research group: Hanne Gram Simonsen, Kristian Emil Kristoffersen, Nina Gram Garmann, Pernille Hansen and Anna Sara Romøren.
"Norsk forening for kognitiv lingvistikk" (NORKOG)
Participants from the research group: Hanne Gram Simonsen, Nina Gram Garmann (former leader), Kristian Emil Kristoffersen, Ingeborg Sophie Ribu, Elisabeth Holm, Anna Sara Romøren, Pernille Hansen (board member 2018-2020).
Phonological and lexical acquisition in mono- and bilingual children in the Nordic and the Baltic states (NorPhLex)
Funded by NordForsk (2011-2014), and led by Kristian Emil Kristoffersen, Nina Gram Garmann and Hanne Gram Simonsen. Participants from the research group: Pernille Hansen, Yulia Rodina, Anna Sara Romøren.
Other participating institutions: University of Oslo and Akershus, University of Tromsø, University of Southern Denmark (Odense), University of Gävle, Stockholm University, University of Tallinn, University of Tartu, University of York and University of Newcastle.
Language impairment in a multilingual society: Linguistic patterns and the roads to assessment (BiSLI)
Funded by COST (2009-2013, as IS0804). Participants from the research group: Hanne Gram Simonsen and Pernille Hansen.
Webpages for the network (bi-sli.org)
Variation in speech production and perception (Vispp) 2004-2009
Participants from the University of Oslo: Professor Inger Moen (network coordinator), professor Hanne Gram Simonsen and professor Kristian Emil Kristoffersen.
The network was funded by NorFA. Other Norwegian participants included a group from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
Projects
Projects the research group was involved in.
Informational website
The group developed an informational website on language development and language disorders (in Norwegian).