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Professor Emerita
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail gisela.hakanssonling.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I have always been curious about what distinguishes humans from animals. This has led me into research of human language and into the areas first language acquisition, second language acquisition, multilingualism and language impairments.
Some of the questions I have asked are: How do young children acquire their first language(s)? Are there any differences between monolingual and multilingual language development? What characterises language in children with Specific Language Impairment? When is the internal grammar ”fully developed”? How are languages acquired after the age of four? What is the importance of interaction with parents? Which role does the environment play? Is teaching important?
The questions all deal with the unique human language acquisition capacity. My aim is to get an understanding of what it means to be human by looking into the development a human language.
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Professor Emerita
- General Linguistics
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail gisela.hakanssonling.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20