Center for Language, Brain and Learning
We are a research group at @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social focusing on how multiple languages interact in the mind/brain. The center is funded by @mohnfoundation.bsky.social.
🔗https://uit.no/research/clabl
- Happy New Year from C-LaBL! We are pleased to start 2026 with two recently published articles by our members, Yulia Rodina & Jiuzhou Hao, and their collaborators. These studies contribute valuable insights into bilingual language acquisition and developmental language disorders
- ❓How do child heritage speakers of Bosnian and Serbian navigate direct object usage in a Norwegian contact setting? 🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069251386267
- ❓ How do Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder process and produce non-canonical structures? 🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716425100386
- New #Eyetracking study: German morphological case in L1 speakers in Germany vs L1 speakers residing abroad #realtimeprocessing #L1attrition #multilingualism #bilingualism #langsky 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S014...
- 🌟Nytt samarbeid🌟 ❓Korleis språkleg variasjon blir representert og prosessert i hjernen – både mellom dialektar og mellom tale og skrift? 🔗 www.hivolda.no/forsking-og-...
- ❓Hvordan påvirker unges bruk av engelsk på sosiale medier utviklingen av det norske språket, og hvilke typer anglisismer har størst sannsynlighet for å bli en varig del av språket? Anne Mette Sunde har skrevet nettopp om dette temaet 😁⤵️ septentrio.uit.no/index.php/ma...
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟 📢Language reading group 📅26.11 14:15 CET 📄Cognate facilitation in... (Koutamanis et. al, 2024) 📄The role of cognates and language distance in...(Koutamanis et. al, 2025) 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dBhRBD26 📢Issues in Phonological Typology 📅27 & 27.11 🔗 phontyp.github.io
- C-LaBL members are working hard 💪 Four fresh publications involving our members ⤵️ Wulff, Stefanie; Ellis, Nick C.; Rothman, Jason (2025). Dichotomies as points of departure: A response to Truscott and Sharwood Smith (2024). 🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583251389445
- Unsworth, Sharon; Gusnanto, Arief; Kašćelan, Draško; Prévost, Philippe; Serratrice, Ludovica; Tuller, Laurie; Cat, Cécile De (2025). Unpacking the Richness of Language Experience as a Predictor of Bilingual Children’s Language Proficiency.
- 🔗https://www-cambridge-org.mime.uit.no/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/article/unpacking-the-richness-of-language-experience-as-a-predictor-of-bilingual-childrens-language-proficiency/4F0C635BB88F341514B7FD32127FEBDD
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View full threadAnderssen, Merete; Jensberg, Helene; Lohndal, Terje; Lundquist, Björn; Westergaard, Marit (2025). Verb second word order and finite verb placement in North American Norwegian. A reference guide to the syntax of North American Norwegian 🔗https://zenodo.org/records/15274572
- Last week, C-LaBL & LINC hosted a workshop with Ukrainian psychologist Anna Lenchovska, Director of Kyiv’s #TolerSpace. It focused on #Ukraine, #Multilingualism & #RefugeeSupport. Thanks to Anna & all who joined! 🔗 en.uit.no/project/linc 🔗https://www.tolerspace.org.ua/
- 📢Lunch Seminar this week with Peter Svenonius 📄What is a word? 📅Thursday at 12:15 CEST 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dB3Ne5Qs Abstract ⤵️
- Pretheoretically, the word appears to be a fundamental unit of language, and much linguistic research operates on that assumption, for example counting words uttered, testing knowledge of words, measuring speed and accuracy of word recognition, measuring time elapsed from word boundaries, and so on
- Languages are regularly described as having more or less morphology than other languages in one domain or another, and the very division of grammar into morphology and syntax is predicated on the assumption that there is a word. Given the centrality of the notion...
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- Holding it Together Over Time: Multilingual engagement, working memory and resting state brain activity Our very own Anders Gabrielsen will talk about whether degree of multilingual engagement contributes to the maintenance of working memory (WM) performance across the adult lifespan 🇳🇴🇬🇧🧠👶👧👩🦰👵
- ❓Are you a researcher, educator, or practitioner working with displaced or war-affected communities? 🎙️Anna Lenchovska ✅ Trauma-informed teaching ✅ Trauma-informed research ✅ Self-care and burnout prevention 📅 11.11 📍 UiT /Zoom 💻Register by November 3 nettskjema.no/a/557151 en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟 1/2 📢Language Reading Group 📅29.10, 14:15 CEST 🎙️Tekabe Feleke 📄Mapping the dimensions of linguistic distance: A study on South Ethiosemitic languages (2020) 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dsc6d2Vx
- 2/2 📢 Joint Seminar w/ Lancaster University 📅29.10, 16:00 CEST 🎙️Tania Leal 📄Where Topic Meets Focus: Examining Information Structure Across Methods 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dc4FucMh 📢 Lunch Seminar 📅30.10, 12:15 CEST 🎙️Antti Saloranta 📄To be announced! 🔗 Teams: lnkd.in/dC7u325u
- And also: 📢Phonology Reading Group 📅28.10, 14:15 CEST 📄Prosodic Faithfulness and correspondence: Evidence from a Japanese Argot (Itoh et al., 1996) 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dcpaexHX
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟 1/ 📢Phonology Reading Group 📅21.10 (today!), 14:15 CEST 🎙️Nick Kalivoda 📄Properties of the Italo-Romance coda typology 🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dzHksVQn
- 2/ 📢Brain domain seminar with Lancaster University 📅22.10 (tomorrow!), 15:00 UK time 🎙️Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell University & Aarhus University) 📄Squeezing through the Bottleneck: The Importance of Chunking in Language Learning 🔗Zoom: lnkd.in/d6JQFrfb
- The Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at AMU, Poznań (Poland) will host the workshop “Bidirectional cross-linguistic effects of structural similarity in child multilingualism”. Keynote lectures by leading international experts on child bilingualism and language attrition 🌟
- Celebrating new grants and gathering for our retreat!
- Reposted by Center for Language, Brain and LearningNew book examines language loss among multilingual speakers
- 3 new projects led by C-LaBL members funded by the Research Council of Norway 🎉 Congratulations to Kristine Bentzen, Monica I. Norvik and Leena Maria Heikkola (@leenamariaheikkola.bsky.social) #Samí #Kven #Noskfinsk #Skogfinsk #CulturalHeritage #grants #research @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social
- Come work with us!
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟 • Lunch Seminar with Jakub Przybył (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 🔗https://uit.no/research/clabl#880862_buttoncont1 • Conference "Nynorsk på nye måtar" with @vangsnes.bsky.social 🔗https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/882035/konferanse_nynorsk_pa_nye_matar
- 🎉One of the 18 selected #FRIPRO projects🎉 12M NOK for "Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition (MOVA)" The project aims to understand the complex dynamics of multilingual language development and maintenance for Ukrainian refugees in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Norway🤩 #linguistics
- ❓Do Bilingual Brains Process Grammar Differently? 🌍🧠EEG reveals how proficiency and exposure shape grammatical gender processing in Spanish heritage speakers. #Bilingualism #EEGStudy #CognitiveResearch #linguistics 🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125101149
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟 We are pleased to host several visitors this week! • Joshua Hartshorne (@mghinstitute.bsky.social) 📅 15-16.09: Methods Workshop 📅 17.09: Guest Lecture • Regular guests from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: Anna Olszewska, Kamil Długosz, Jakub Przybył #linguistics
- Our research team, from Prague to Tours: Exploring how children’s minds shape and process language 🌍✨ 📍 AMLaP 2025, Prague 🇨🇿 📍 Child Language Symposium 2025, Reading 🇬🇧 📍 X-PPL 2025, Zürich 🇨🇭 📍GALA 2025, Tours 🇫🇷 #Linguistics #Bilingualism #HeritageLanguage #langsky
- Indeed we are, thanks for sharing!
- Last one for this morning: @c-labl.bsky.social at UiT in Tromsø is hiring a 3-year postdoc in multilingualism and language learning! With a focus on either closely related language varieties (multilectalism), parallel language learning, or a combination of the two www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- 🌍✨ New Research Alert! ✨🌍 The @ludoserratrice.bsky.social group at @uniofreading.bsky.social have published a new study on fostering #InterculturalCompetence in primary school children through the #YoungInterpreterScheme (YIS)! 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2025.2541070 #Education #Research
- Today is Brechje van Osch's last day at @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social after well over five years in our research group. We are sad to see her go, but very happy – and proud – that she is leaving for a permanent position as Associate Professor in English Linguistics at @unistavanger.bsky.social ! 🎓✨
- She was recruited as a postdoc in the AcqVA Aurora center for the project MultiLingual Minds and Crosslinguistic Influence. After joining our research group, she secured funding for the MSCA project Heritage Language Acquisition: The qualitative nature of input and cross-linguistic influence (HeLA).
- Her main research focus is on early and late bi/multilingualism, with a particular view to Spanish in contact with other languages.
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- 🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟 We are welcoming over 350 researchers for #EuroSLA34 🤩 🔗https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/845263/eurosla_34 @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social @ant-neuro.com Brain Products @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
- 📢Extra lunch seminar this week! PhD student Carla Menares Arancibia visiting us from King's College London will present her project 😊 📄Real-time processing of gender cues in early L3 acquisition 📅Thursday June 19th, 12:00 CEST #Linguistics #LanguageAcquisition #ResearchTalk
- @ogneva.bsky.social and collaborators did a longitudinal study in preterm children, check it out! 🔗https://rdcu.be/eqGFF #langsky #linguistics
- Language is always changing - take a look at the changes in grammatical gender in the Oslo dialect in this new paper by Guro Busterud, Terje Lohndal, Toril Opsahl, Yulia Rodina and Marit Westergaard 😊 🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586525000071 #langsky #linguistics
- 🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 * everyone is at #ISB15 at the BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language *
- ❓Did you read the essay by Jan Hulstjin on the BLC theory from 2024? Jason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Jiuzhou Hao and Patrick Rebuschat sure did, and they have comments 🤩!⤵️ 🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050098 You can find the original essay here: 🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050173 #langsky
