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Master Alexander Kristoffersen Lykke ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: “Variation and Change in the Tense Morphology of Heritage Norwegian in North America”.

Online conference: EELC8 will be livestreamed using Zoom. 

The theme of the eighth biennial Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication conference is “Perspectives across disciplinary and political borders.”

Hvordan lærer vi språk i en pandemikrise? Einar Haugen-forelesningen 2020 holdes av språkforsker Lourdes Ortega fra Universitetet i Georgetown, USA.

Hvordan påvirker flerspråklighet hjernen vår i tidlig barndom og senere? Og stemmer det at eldre mennesker som snakker flere språk utvikler demens senere enn andre?

How does multilingualism affect our mind in early childhood and later? And is it true that older people who speak more languages develop dementia later than others? 

This is an internal event and not open to the public. 

MultiLing's Summer School 2020 will take place from 7 to 11 September, 2020. This year, the topic is issues in second language learning and interaction. It will address how language learning is accomplished in conversational interaction and how the development of linguistic and interactional competence may be traced in actual conversational behavior over time.

Constanze Weth, Associate Professor for Multilingual Education at the University of Luxembourg, will give a talk on French spelling patterns of German fourth graders with French as Foreign language.

This seminar brings together three on-going Nordic projects that focus on language and digital interaction in families.

Yesim Sevinc, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MultiLing, will give a talk entitled "Mindsets and family language pressure: Language or anxiety transmission across generations".

Alessandro Palumbo (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, ILN) will present his current project entitled "Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia".

The MultiLing Winter School 2020 will take place from 24 to 28 February, 2020 . This year, we will explore issues in second language learning (with)in marginalized populations.

David Albert Natvig (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, MultiLing) will give a talk on language shift and community structure in a Norwegian-American community in the United States.

Master Yvonne Wilhelmina Henriëtte van Baal ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden Philosophiae Doctor (ph.d.): Compositional Definiteness in American Heritage Norwegian.

Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos (PhD Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin) will give a talk on the topic of metaphor comprehension, reporting the results from two eye-tracking visual world studies.

NB: New time and place!

Kalinka Timmer will give a trial lecture for the position of Associate Professor in Multilingualism with an emphasis on Psycholinguistics.

Open to all.

Samba Diop (Researcher at MultiLing) will give a talk entitled "Socio-linguistic Mutations and Cultural Transformations in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Senegal".

Adriana Hanulikova will give a trial lecture for the position of Associate Professor in Multilingualism with an emphasis on Psycholinguistics.

Open to all.