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Professor Emerita in General Linguistics, Lund University, and previously at Linnaeus University and Østfold University College, Halden.

What drives my research is my curiosity about what distinguishes humans from animals. This has led me into the question of the unique human language acquisition capacity. I have analyzed language acquisition and language loss in a number of research projects, most often based om production data. Some of the questions are: Is monolingual language acquisition different from multilingual language development? What is the impact of factors like age, interaction and teaching? What characterizes language in children with Developmental Language Disorder? What happens when speakers lose their language/s? Are there any common milestones?

My aim is to get a better understanding of the development and loss of human language.