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Five students in their first year of the MA in Multilingualism will present on how auditory processing aptitude is important when it comes to imitating an unfamiliar L2, but that L2 proficiency is more important in relation to a familiar L2.

In this presentation, Frances Kvietok Duenas (Postdoc, MultiLing), Pia Lane (Professor, MultiLing), and Carola Kleemann (Associate Professor, UiT) will share comparative insights about the language reclamation trajectories of new speakers of Sámi, Quechua and Aimara.

How does ADHD affect the learning of multiple languages? Do people with and without ADHD process figurative language differently? These are just some of the questions that will be discussed at AttCom's Kick-Off Workshop.

Alastair Pennycook (Professor Emeritus, University of Technology Sydney and Research Professor, MultiLing) presents on how a language assemblage framework shows how languages are put together within local combinations of things, people and places and are also part of wider social and political entanglements.

EyeHub invites: An eye-tracking workshop with Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos 

Laura Bishop (Researcher at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion) will present a study that investigates how classical string quartet musicians are affected by playing conditions designed to enable, perturb, or enhance experiences of musical togetherness.

MultiLing Colloquia A & B 2023

Based on long-term engagement with the Provençal case, this talk by James Costa (Professor, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) explores why language revitalization often fails.

Anne Pauwels (Emerita Professor, SOAS and Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne) presents her research exploring multilingual soundscapes in two cities: Melbourne and Antwerp.

Emma Krane Mathisen (MA-student in English language and linguistics) will give a presentation of her master's project on the processing differences between metaphors and similes. 

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Research Professor, MultiLing) outlines a new three-year project within linguistic landscape (LL) studies that explores traces and discourses of inequality in the semiotic landscape of educational spaces (‘schoolscape’).

Oliwia Szymańska (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present and discuss the results of metaphor training carried out with psychiatrists during an intensive Norwegian course.

An interdisciplinary seminar aimed at scholars and students, supported by UiO Faculty of Humanities and the Young Academy of Norway.

In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.

The 2023 Winter School focuses on bi/multilingual families as a complex and dynamic space whose norms are informed both by family-internal factors and home-external affordances, including technological developments supporting digital communication, and constraints.

Bob McMurray (F. Wendell Miller Professor, University of Iowa) will give a presentation that argues against overly sophisticated analysis and for simpler approaches to eye-movement analysis.

Dzan Zelihic (PhD Fellow, UiO) will be giving a presentation on using Eye-tracking and the Visual World Paradigm to investigate interference from adjacent items in word recognition.

Lilla Magyari (Associate Professor, University of Stavanger) will give a talk about how embodied cues can affect reader's experiences and immersion in longer literary texts.

For the 2022 EyeHub Lecture, Dale Barr (University of Glasgow) will be giving a lecture on the insights eyetracking can provide for theories of language use and perspective taking.

1-day workshop will Dale Barr focusing on pre-processing and analyzing eye-tracking data.

Paula Rubio-Fernandez (Senior Researcher, IFIKK) will be giving a presentation on a new pragmatic account of referential communication.

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

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.

Marianna Kyriacou (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present an ongoing study on the relationship between irony processing and executive attention using an eye-tracking reading experiment.