About the guest lecture
The research group Second and third language acquisition and use invites colleagues and students to a guest lecture by Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) titled Multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical considerations, research design & some empirical evidence.
The lecture will take place on October 9 in Henrik Wergelands Hus 421. Everyone is welcome and registration is not needed. We encourage students to attend!
About the speaker
Marit Westergaard is Professor of English Linguistics at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway and the Director of the Center for Language, Brain & Learning (C-LaBL), which is funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation (2024-2029), as well as the AcqVA Aurora Centre (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition): The Dynamic Nature of Languages in the Mind, funded by UiT (2020-2024). Research in AcqVA/C-LaBL focuses on language acquisition and multilingualism. She also holds a 20% Adjunct Professorship at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Westergaard has been the leader of several large-scale projects, such as ‘Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL)’, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway, and ‘MultiGender’, funded by the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Her expertise spans various types of language acquisition (L1/L2/L3) and multilingualism, as well as historical language change, and she has developed two influential theoretical models on L1 and L3/Ln acquisition, the Micro-Cue Model and the Linguistic Proximity Model.