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Center for Language, Brain and Learning
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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
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 6d
New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers
New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers
Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 12d
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
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90 millioner til forskningsprosjekter som skal styrker kunnskap om samisk, kvensk/norskfinsk og skogsfinsk samfunn og kultur
Åtte prosjekter får finansiering for å forske på temaer som skal gi ny kunnskap om samiske, kvenske/norskfinske og skogfinske forhold. Tildelingen er en direkte oppfølging av Sannhets- og forsoningsko...
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 15d
Come work with us!
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 22d
Jobs: English, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Postdoctoral Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Jobs: English, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Postdoctoral Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Other Specialties: Multilingualism, Multilectalism, Second Language Acquisition, Third Language Acquisition, Simultaneous Acquisition, Closely Related Varieties Description: Position: A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The position is affiliated with the Center for Language, Brain & Learning (C-LaBL), more specifically the Learning domai
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 16d
🌟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
Frå venstre direktør i Språkrådet, Åse Wetås (foto: Oda Hveem), forfattar Monica Goksøyr (foto: Oda Berby), prosjektleiar for MultiLit, Øystein A. Vangsnes (foto: privat), og forfattar Anders Totland (foto: Helge Skodvin). Jakub Przybył
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 22d
🎉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
191 millioner kroner til toppforskning på blant annet digitalisering i skolen | Forskningsrådet
18 forskningsprosjekter får nå millionstøtte fra Forskningsrådet. Forskerne skal blant annet finne ut hvordan bruk av nettbrett i skolen påvirker elevenes trivsel og læring, hvordan ukrainske barn lær...
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 23d
❓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
Individual differences matter in heritage language bilingual processing | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core
Individual differences matter in heritage language bilingual processing
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 23d
🌟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

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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 28d
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
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · 28d
Indeed we are, thanks for sharing!
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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · Sep 5
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...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning (285635) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning (285635), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Aug 11
🌍✨ 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
Exploring intercultural competence in children: the role of the young interpreter scheme
Intercultural competence is an essential skill in today's increasing multicultural society, including in educational settings, as it facilitates effective communication and fosters inclusivity. The...
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
#Farewell #NewBeginnings #AcademicJourney #Linguistics #HeritageLinguistics #Multilingualism #ResearchExcellence #HigherEducation #AssociateProfessor #LanguageAcquisition
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
She has made highly valuable contributions to our group and the field of heritage linguistics. We congratulate UiS on their recruitment, wish Brechje all the best in her new position, and trust that fruitful collaboration with friends and colleagues at C-LaBL will continue in the years to come! 👏🌟
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
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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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
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).
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
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 ! 🎓✨
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jul 31
Hola Victor!
Thank you again for volunteering as photographer!
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 23
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 23
🌟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
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 16
📢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
Join conversation
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 12
@ogneva.bsky.social and collaborators did a longitudinal study in preterm children, check it out!
🔗https://rdcu.be/eqGFF
#langsky #linguistics
Writing skills and executive functions: What happens to low risk preterm children?
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 12
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
Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect | Nordic Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 10
🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟

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* everyone is at #ISB15 at the BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language *
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · Jun 2
❓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
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · May 26
❓Do L3 learners acquire their new language property-by-property based on co-activation of their previously acquired languages, or do they make a ‘wholesale’ transfer from one of their previously acquired languages into the new one?
🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251332128
#langsky #linguistics
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Center for Language, Brain and Learning @c-labl.bsky.social · May 26
🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟
📢AcqVA-Nor Workshop : "Parallel Language Acquisition"
📅26.05; 13:13 CEST
🎙️Mirjam Broersma, Sterre Leufkens, Kjersti Faldet Listhaug

📢Brain Domain/HL2C Seminar: "Multilectal influence on reading: Language, Brain and Learning"
📅28.05; 13:00 CEST (12:00 UK time)
🎙️Jade Sandstedt