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Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students’ Written Production

Simone Löhndorf has successfully defended her PhD thesis "Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students’ Written Production". The faculty opponent was Professor Dorit Ravid, University of Tel Aviv.

The Swedish Research Council awards grants to SOL-researchers

The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded grants within Humanities 2021.

How the melodic sound of Swedish can help Swedes automatically assess new languages

Learning a second language can feel like a slow and tedious process. Yet, the human brain starts segmenting and categorising new language input virtually from the very second that it is exposed it. It supposedly does so based on what it currently knows about how languages sound and how they are structured. Sabine Gosselke Berthelsen has investigated the suggested importance of familiarity with the properties of a new language in early stages of language learning.

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Dissertation in linguistics

In her dissertation Joanne Yager investigates the outcomes of language contact and multilingualism among egalitarian foragers in a small-scale multilingual setting in northern Peninsular Malaysia.