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This talk will address the roles of linguistic similarity and learning order in crosslinguistic influence at the phonetic level in multilinguals.

Clara D. Martin is an Ikerbasque research professor at the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Spain), leader of the research group “Speech and Bilingualism”.

The main objective of Dr. Martin’s research group is to explore language perception and production, in native and foreign languages, with a special focus on language interactions in the bilingual mind. Her research group also focuses on language learning, exploring how we learn to perceive and produce novel sounds and words, and how those processes can be optimized.

The 2022 MultiLing Summer School focuses on how sociocultural linguistic research methods can contribute to our understanding of the intersection of environmental and social (in)justice in a time of growing ecological crisis

We will talk about the diversity of research published in the four main child language acquisition journals, and discuss possible steps to increase linguistic coverage and to build a more diverse discipline.

Open 1-day workshop on children's language development in less-studied languages hosted by the BABYLEARN flagship project at Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan.

Professor and former Minister of Research and Higher Education in Ethiopia Hirut Woldemariam Teketel (University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is appointed honorary doctor by the Rectorate of the University of Oslo, and will give a lecture on that occasion.

Professor og tidligere forsknings- og høyere utdanningsminister i Etiopia, Hirut Woldemariam Teketel (Universitetet i Addis Abeba, Etiopia) utnevnes til æresdoktor av rektoratet ved Universitetet i Oslo, og vil i den anledning holde forelesning.

Nuranindia Endah Arum (Doctoral Research Fellow, MultiLing) will give a talk on her in-progress PhD project on Norwegian language learning experiences of highly educated Indonesians in Norway.

Anne Marte is a first year PhD fellow at MultiLing, working within the Nordic collaboration project TEFLON. She holds an MA in Language Studies with Teacher Education from NTNU in Trondheim from 2019. Her research interests include psycholinguistics and second language learning, as well as a growing interest in language technology.

Alexis Hervais-Adelman (Assistant Professor, University of Zurich) will discuss the neural basis of simultaneous interpreting.

Angela de Bruin will discuss language control in multilingual speakers and how they manage competition, word selection, interference and switching between languages. Open lecture. 

A guest lecture by Sendy Caffarra.

Curtis divides his time being Research Data Coordinator at University of Cambridge and a Researcher in multilingualism and neurodiversity, particularly, the interaction of multilingualism and levels of attention in children. Curtis holds a PhD in Psycholinguistics and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (University of Cambridge). He is currently a researcher with the “Better attention, better communication? How ADHD multilingualism influence children’s pragmatic development”, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

The talk will be given in English.

James Konrad Puchowski (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) will share theoretical reflections on ethnographies of Nynorsk, Catalan and Scots language activism. 

Mary Beth is a first year PhD fellow at the department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK). She is working under the supervision of Ingrid Lossius Falkum (as part of the DEVCOM project) and her PhD is on the literal bias in children’s figurative language development. Mary Beth holds a MAS from the University of Basel and has recently rejoined academia after working as a Senior Science Advisor for the NZ Department of Conservation.

The talk will be given in English.

Tuba Yilmaz (Lecturer, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey/ University of Florida, USA) will discuss pre-service teachers’ raciolinguistic ideologies about refugee students’ education in Turkey.

Please note this is an event open to public.

Language revitalisation may be an emancipatory process through which speakers find and develop their own voice, identity and belonging, but this can also be a challenging and painful process for the individual.

Ana Matić Škorić (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zagreb) will discuss the Comprehensive Aphasia Test across languages. 

Rickard Jonsson (Professor, Stockholm University) will discuss anti-racist ways of constructing the ethnic and racial Other in talk.

Please note this is a closed event for MultiLing and ILN members only.

This event has unfortunately been cancelled.

Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen (Professor, University of Bath, UK) will discuss parental involvement of a group of Chinese parents in their children’s heritage language (HL) development in the UK.