Lingvistiske arrangement på UiO

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).

Fatima Reda (PhD Fellow, University of Oslo) will give a talk on how teachers and newly arrived Arabic-speaking students utilize digital tools during oral communication tasks in the classroom.

Nina Teigland (PhD Fellow, University of Bergen) will discuss language policy in Norway from a public policy perspective.

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.

Dr. Tymoteusz Król (Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, The Centre for Regional Studies of University of Ostrava) will discuss the endangered Wymysorys language (Poland) and the significance of multilingualism for Vilamovian identity in the face of 'safe' Polish monolingualism.

By Valentina Alfarano and Åshild Næss.

Georgios (George) Georgiou (Assistant Professor, University of Nikosia) will discuss the capacity of bidialectal and monodialectal speakers to perceive second language speech sounds, unveiling a potential advantage for bidialectals, possibly rooted in the development of advanced higher-order abilities linked to their diverse linguistic background.

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.

As MultiLing is coming to a closure in 2023, we invite all interested to join us as we discuss and synthesize our research and achievements.

In her keynote lecture for MultiLing’s Closing Conference, Lourdes Ortega will discuss the potential for a decolonial lens to sharpen social justice orientations in the study of multilingual learning.

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.

Kerime Eylul Eski (PhD Candidate, University of Genova) and Luca Onnis (Professor, MultiLing) will present on the effect of social networks on linguistic behaviour.

The study of heritage language speakers can shed light on fundamental issues in multilingualism. Professor Marit Westergaard will address some of these issues, with examples from heritage languages in Norway and Norwegian heritage language in North America.