Språkvitenskapelige seminarer

Vivian Zhang from Cornell University presents her research on how caregiver-infant turn-taking facilitates communicative development 

Ron Darvin (University of British Columbia, Canada) discusses how applied linguistics research can address the compelling issues of language, technology and identity that confront us in the age of AI 

Language and Cognition Forum is happy to announce that PhD student Akvile Sinkevičiūtė (Northeastern University London ) will present her work on bilinguals' colour discrimination at Henrik Wergelands House on June 14th. 

Five MA students in Multilingualism will present the results of their psycholinguistic projects as part of the MULTI4150 - Project-based Research in Multilingualism course.

Sverre Stausland will present his research on the origin of the word ordskifte 

Professor James Kirby from LMU Munich will present his research on perceptual similarity and acoustic variability as filters on tonal variation and change

Carmen Sumillera Iglesias presents the outline and methodology of her PhD project about South African language policies in higher education.

Ilaria Marazzina will present her ongoing Master's project on first language use in second language teaching.

Nele Põldvere and Elizaveta Kibisova present their research on the grammatical differences between fake and genuine news in English and Russian. 

Hanna Andresen presents parts of her PhD project and discusses the significance of investigating bilingual children's conceptualization.

Aleksandra Ita Olszewska and Toril Opsahl present a narrative study of Polish migrant workers’ lived experiences at the intersection of linguistic racism and Whiteness, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum

EyeHub, in collaboration with the Language Research Forum, is delighted to announce that Professor Debra Titone (McGill University, Department of Psychology) will give an extraordinary talk at Henrik Wergelands house March 15th. 

Qiongpeng Luo will present his research about developing an explicit, formal semantics for the construction of subkinds in natural language.

Jenny Gudmundsen and Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen present a conversation analysis of second language communication in a video-mediated environment

Patrick Georg Grosz presents his research on the role of face emojis in speech act marking, organized by the General Linguistics Forum 

Guri Bordal Steien will present her longitudinal study of refugee learners of Norwegian, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum

Janet Connor presents her ethnographic research on communication, diversity and convergence in the central Oslo neighborhood of Tøyen, organized by the Multilingualism Research Forum

By Yves Scherrer (IFI).

Nina Hagen Kaldhol is a PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the University of California San Diego. In collaboration with native speakers of Tira, Rere and Somali, she works on language documentation while also aiming to advance our theoretical understanding of tone and morphological complexity.

By Valentina Alfarano and Åshild Næss.

Our ex-colleague Jozina Vander Klok from Humboldt University Berlin is visiting to talk about Javanese applicatives in (formal) syntactic and semantic terms.

By Dag Haug.

Jamie Y. Findlay explores the idea that the distinction between fast/automatic and slow/deliberate thought processes can be drawn inside the domain of language processing.