Marianne Gullberg

Professor Psycholinguistics and Director of the Humanities Lab

Research

• Present projects
• Multilingualism through the lifespan: The effects of first exposure to an unknown language (research leader)This project explores the capacities and limitations of the human learning mechanism by experimentally examining what learners at different ages can learn ...
• Swedish word order processing in second language learners and native speakers: A psycholinguistic and neurocognitive approach (SWOP2) (research leader)Adult second language learners often have problems using correct word orders in Swedish, but we know little about how they understand orders they do not ...

• About my research

• Publications

Other tasks and qualifications

Editorship international journals (not counting editorial board membership)
- Language Learning - Associate Editor
- Gesture - Information Editor
- Language, Interaction, Acquisition - Editor

Recipient of Eva and Lars Gårding's Prize in Linguistics 2010.

Vice-president European Second Language Association (Eurosla) 2003-2007; Co-opted Executive Board Member 2008-2011.

Current PhD students
- Inge Alferink, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen/International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences
- Nuria Kaufmann, Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg, CH
- Sandra Debreslioska, Lund University, SE
- Kristina Borgström, Lund University, SE (co-supervisor)

Previous PhD students
- Amanda Brown (now Syracuse University, USA)
- Ylva Falk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL
- Ulrika Serrander, Uppsala University, SE

Organiser of the 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies 2012: The communicative body in development http://www.gesturestudies.com/isgs2012/

International teaching 2011
- International Max Planck Research School Frontiers workshop, Masterclasses on Language acquisition and language change
- (Psycho)linguistic approaches to language contact, bilingualism and code switching; National Research School in Linguistics and Philology, Kristiansand, Norway
- NordForsk Research Training Course, Helsinki
- Visual modes of language: Gesture and Sign (MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

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