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Professor Psycholinguistics and Director of Lund University Humanities Lab
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- Cohesion is heard and seen: A crosslinguistic study of gesture articulation in sustained discourse (research leader)
- Culture, brain, learning: a Wallenberg Network Initiative (research leader)
- Embodied bilingualism (a Wallenberg Scholar project) (research leader)
- Embodied discourse: cross-linguistic and developmental perspectives on the expression of pragmatic meanings
- Multilingualism through the lifespan: The effects of first exposure to an unknown language (research leader)
- Swedish word order processing in second language learners and native speakers: A psycholinguistic and neurocognitive approach (SWOP2) (research leader)
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- SWE-CLARIN: Svensk språkteknologi för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
About the research
My research targets adult second language (L2) and bilingual acquisition and processing, and also gesture production and comprehension in acquisition, drawing on multiple methods ranging from speech and gesture analysis to behavioural and neurocognitive techniques. I worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 2000-2009 where I headed the research group The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing 2003-2009 with Prof. P. Indefrey. I am also co-founder of the Nijmegen Gesture Centre with Prof. A. Özyurek, the first centre of its kind. In 2012 I was awarded one of 16 Wallenberg Scholar grants for a project dedicated to Embodied billingualism.
Publications
Books (1)
Editorships (13)
- (2017). (Ed.) Frontiers in Psychology : Visual Language. Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers.
- Seyfeddinipur, M. & Gullberg, M. (2014). (Eds.) From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance. Benjamins.
- Gullberg, M. & Williams, J. N. (2012). (Eds.) Cognitive second language acquisition. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Ed. C. Chapelle). Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & de Bot, K. (2010). (Eds.) Gestures in language development. Benjamins.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2010). (Eds.) Language Learning : Volume 60, Issue Supplement s2. The earliest stages of language learning. Language Learning, 60, 1-283. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2010). (Eds.) The earliest stages of language learning. Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & de Bot, K. (2008). (Eds.) Gesture : Volume 8, Issue 2. Gestures in language development. Gesture, 8, 147-284. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Indefrey, P. & Gullberg, M. (2008). (Eds.) Language Learning : Volume 58, Issue Supplement s1. Time to speak. Cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language. Language Learning, 58, 1-230. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Indefrey, P. & Gullberg, M. (2008). (Eds.) Time to speak : Cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language. The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series. Wiley-Blackwell.
- McCafferty, S. & Gullberg, M. (2008). (Eds.) Studies in Second Language Acquisition : Volume 30, Issue 2. Gesture and SLA - Toward an integrated approach. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 133-276. Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2006). (Ed.) International Review of Applied Linguistics. : Volume 44, Issue 2. Gestures and second language acquisition. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 44, 103-230. De Gruyter.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2006). (Eds.) Language Learning : Volume 56, Issue Supplement s1. The neurocognition of second language acquisition. Language Learning, 56, 1-348. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2006). (Eds.) The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition. The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics cognitive neuroscience series. Wiley-Blackwell.
Articles (48)
- Alferink, I. & Gullberg, M. (submitted). Speech and gesture show similar patterns of convergence in functional bilinguals. TBA.
- Indefrey, P., Hellwig, F., Davidson, D. & Gullberg, M. (submitted). A longitudinal fMRI study on syntactic comprehension in Chinese learners of Dutch. TBA.
- Debreslioska, S. & Gullberg, M. (2019). Discourse reference is bimodal : How information status in speech interacts with presence and viewpoint of gestures. Discourse Processes, 56, 41-60. Routledge.
- Andersson, A., Sayehli, S. & Gullberg, M. (2018). Language background affects word order processing in a second language online but not offline. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
- Graziano, M. & Gullberg, M. (2018). When speech stops, gesture stops : Evidence from crosslinguistic and developmental comparisons. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Frontiers.
- Parafita Couto, M. C. & Gullberg, M. (2017). Code-switching within the noun phrase : Evidence from three corpora. International Journal of Bilingualism. SAGE Publications Inc..
- Gullberg, M. & Parafita Couto, M. C. (2016). An integrated perspective on code-mixing patterns beyond doubling?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 885-886. Cambridge University Press.
- Indefrey, P., Sahin, H. & Gullberg, M. (2016). The expression of spatial relationships in Turkish/Dutch bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 473-493. Cambridge University Press.
- Alferink, I. & Gullberg, M. (2014). French-Dutch bilinguals do not maintain obligatory semantic distinctions: Evidence from placement verbs. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17, 22-37. Cambridge University Press.
- Ristin-Kaufmann, N. & Gullberg, M. (2014). The effects of first exposure to an unknown language at different ages. Bulletin, Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, 99, 17-29. Institut de Linguistique de l'Universite.
- Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2013). L1-L2 convergence in clausal packaging in Japanese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16, 477-494. Cambridge University Press.
- Debreslioska, S., Özyürek, A., Gullberg, M. & Perniss, P. (2013). Gestural viewpoint signals referent accessibility. Discourse Processes, 50, 431-456. Routledge.
- Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2012). Multicompetence and native speaker variation in clausal packaging in Japanese. Second Language Research, 28, 415-442. SAGE Publications Inc..
- Gullberg, M. (2012). Bilingual multimodality in language documentation data. Language Documentation & Conservation, 6, 47-54. University of Hawai'i Press.
- Gullberg, M., Roberts, L. & Dimroth, C. (2012). What word-level knowledge can adult learners acquire after minimal exposure to a new language?. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 50, 239-276. De Gruyter.
- Oliver, G., Gullberg, M., Hellwig, F., Mitterer, H. & Indefrey, P. (2012). Acquiring L2 sentence comprehension: A longitudinal study of word monitoring in noise. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15, 841-857. Cambridge University Press.
- Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2011). Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in event conceptualization? Expressions of Path among Japanese learners of English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14, 79-94. Cambridge University Press.
- Hickmann, M., Hendriks, H. & Gullberg, M. (2011). Developmental perspectives on the expression of motion in speech and gesture. A comparison of French and English. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 2, 129-156. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Narasimhan, B. & Gullberg, M. (2011). The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: Evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch. Journal of Child Language, 38, 504-532. Cambridge University Press.
- Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2010). Changes in encoding of path of motion after acquisition of a second language. Cognitive Linguistics, 21, 263-286. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Gullberg, M. (2010). Methodological reflections on gesture analysis in SLA and bilingualism research. Second Language Research, 26, 75-102. SAGE Publications Inc..
- Gullberg, M. & Narasimhan, B. (2010). What gestures reveal about the development of semantic distinctions in Dutch children's placement verbs. Cognitive Linguistics, 21, 239-262. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Gullberg, M., Roberts, L., Dimroth, C., Veroude, K. & Indefrey, P. (2010). Adult language learning after minimal exposure to an unknown natural language. Language Learning, 60, 5-24. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Indefrey, P. & Gullberg, M. (2010). The earliest stages of language learning : introduction. Language Learning, 60, 1-4. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Indefrey, P. & Gullberg, M. (2010). The earliest stages of language learning: introduction. Language Learning, 60, 1-4. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Veroude, K., Norris, D. G., Shumskaya, E., Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2010). Functional connectivity between brain regions involved in learning words of a new language. Brain and Language, 113, 21-27. Academic Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2009). Gestures and the development of semantic representations in first and second language acquisition. Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère…Languages, Interaction, and Acquisition (AILE…LIA), 1, 117-139.
- Gullberg, M. (2009). Reconstructing verb meaning in a second language. How English speakers of L2 Dutch talk and gesture about placement. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 222-245. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M. & Kita, S. (2009). Attention to speech-accompanying gestures: Eye movements and information uptake. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 251-277. Springer.
- Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2008). Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in L1-L2 encoding of manner in speech and gesture. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 225-251. Cambridge University Press.
- Davidson, D., Indefrey, P. & Gullberg, M. (2008). Words that second language learners are likely to hear, read, and use. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 133-146. Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2008). Cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language: Any answers?. Language Learning, 58, 207-216. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & McCafferty, S. (2008). Introduction to Gesture and SLA : Toward an Integrated Approach. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 133-146. Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M., de Bot, K. & Volterra, V. (2008). Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development. Gesture, 8, 149-179. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M., Hendriks, H. & Hickmann, M. (2008). Learning to talk and gesture about motion in French. First Language, 28, 200-236. SAGE Publications Inc..
- Roberts, L., Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2008). Online pronoun resolution in L2 discourse: L1 influence and general learner effects. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 333-357. Cambridge University Press.
- Majid, A., Gullberg, M., van Staden, M. & Bowerman, M. (2007). How similar are semantic categories in closely related languages? A comparison of cutting and breaking in four Germanic languages. Cognitive Linguistics, 18, 179-194. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Gullberg, M. (2006). Handling discourse: Gestures, reference tracking, and communication strategies in early L2. Language Learning, 56, 155-196. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. (2006). Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon). International Review of Applied Linguistics, 44, 103-124.
- Gullberg, M. & Özyürek, A. (2006). Report on the Nijmegen Lectures 2004: Susan Goldin-Meadow 'The Many Faces of Gesture'. Gesture, 6, 151-164. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M. & Holmqvist, K. (2006). What speakers do and what addressees look at: Visual attention to gestures in human interaction live and on video. Pragmatics & Cognition, 14, 53-82. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2006). Introduction. Language Learning, 56, 1-8. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Narasimhan, B. & Gullberg, M. (2006). Perspective-shifts in event descriptions in Tamil child language. Journal of Child Language, 33, 99-124. Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2005). L'expression orale et gestuelle de la cohésion dans le discours de locuteurs langue 2 débutants. AILE. Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère, 23, 153-172. Encrages.
- Gullberg, M. (2004). Review of Pointing: Where language, culture and cognition meet, edited by Sotaro Kita. Gesture, 4, 235-248. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M. (1999). Communication strategies, gestures, and grammar. AILE. Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère, 2, 61-71. Encrages.
- Gullberg, M. & Holmqvist, K. (1999). Keeping an eye on gestures: Visual perception of gestures in face-to-face communication. Pragmatics & Cognition, 7, 35-63. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Gullberg, M. (1996). Gesture as a communication strategy in learners of French and Swedish. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 55, 63-73.
Book chapters (29)
- Gullberg, M. (submitted). Going Dutch - en vy från Nederländerna. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund.
- Gullberg, M. (2015). Att få grepp om betydelse : Vad gester avslöjar om språk och språkinlärning. In Forsling, A. (Ed.) (pp. 145-157), 2015. Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
- Gullberg, M. (2014). Gestures and second language acquisition. In Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., Ladewig, S. H., McNeill, D. & Tessendorf, S. (Eds.) (pp. 1868-1875), 2. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Seyfeddinipur, M. & Gullberg, M. (2014). From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance. In Seyfeddinipur, M. & Gullberg, M. (Eds.) (pp. 1-11). Benjamins.
- Andrén, M., Andersson, A., Håkansson, G., Gullberg, M., Johansson, V. & Sayehli, S. (2013). Att lära sig språk. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) (pp. 73-89). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Gullberg, M. (2013). So you think gestures are compensatory? Reflections based on child and adult learner data. In Flyman Mattson, A. & Norrby, C. (Eds.) (pp. 39-49). Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2013). Språket gör oss till människor : Om nyttan med språkforskningen. In Ståhl, S. (Eds.) (pp. 106-119). Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund.
- Johansson, V., Blomberg, J., Håkansson, G. & Gullberg, M. (2013). Människan och språket. In Johansson, V., Carling, G. & Holmer, A. (Eds.) (pp. 41-52). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Gullberg, M. (2012). Att ha språket i sin hand: Vad gester avslöjar om vuxen andraspråksinlärning. In Lundell, P. (Ed.) Årsbok (pp. 41-52). Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund.
- Gullberg, M. (2012). Bilingualism and gesture. In Bhatia, T. K. & Ritchie, W. C. (Eds.) (pp. 417-437). Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. (2012). Gesture analysis in second language acquisition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. & Burenhult, N. (2012). Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish. In Kopecka, A. & Narasimhan, B. (Eds.) (pp. 167-182). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Narasimhan, B., Kopecka, A., Bowerman, M., Gullberg, M. & Majid, A. (2012). Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective. In Kopecka, A. & Narasimhan, B. (Eds.) (pp. 1-18). Benjamins.
- Williams, J. N. & Gullberg, M. (2012). Cognitive second language acquisition: An overview. In Gullberg, M. & Williams, J. N. (Eds.) (pp. 1-4). Wiley-Blackwell.
- Gullberg, M. (2011). Language-specific encoding of placement events in gestures. In Bohnemeyer, J. & Pederson, E. (Eds.) (pp. 166-188). Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2011). Multilingual multimodality: Communicative difficulties and their solutions in second language use. In Goodwin, C., LeBaron, C. & Streeck, J. (Eds.) (pp. 137-151). Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2011). Thinking, speaking, and gesturing about motion in more than one language. In Pavlenko, A. (Ed.) (pp. 143-169). Multilingual Matters.
- Gullberg, M. (2009). Why gestures are relevant to the bilingual mental lexicon. In Pavlenko, A. (Ed.) (pp. 161-184). Multilingual Matters.
- Gullberg, M., Indefrey, P. & Muysken, P. (2009). Research techniques for the study of code-switching. In Bullock, B. E. & Toribio, J. A. (Eds.) (pp. 21-39). Cambridge University Press.
- Gullberg, M. (2008). A helping hand? Gestures, L2 learners, and grammar. In McCafferty, S. & Gale, S. (Eds.) (pp. 185-210). Routledge.
- Gullberg, M. (2008). Gestures and second language acquisition. In Robinson, P. & Ellis, N. (Eds.) (pp. 276-305). Routledge.
- Dimroth, C., Gullberg, M. & Roberts, L. (2005). Die erste Begegnung mit einer neuen Sprache: wieviel weiss man nach ein paar Minuten?. K.G. Saur Verlag.
- Bowerman, M., Gullberg, M., Majid, A. & Narasimhan, B. (2004). Put project: the cross-linguistic encoding of placement events. In Asifa, M. (Ed.) (pp. 10-18), 9. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
- Gullberg, M. (2003). Eye movements and gestures in human face-to-face interaction. In Hyönä, J., Radach, R. & Deubel, H. (Eds.) (pp. 685-703). Elsevier.
- Gullberg, M. (2003). Gestures, languages, and language acquisition. In Strömqvist, S. (Eds.) (pp. 45-56). Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2003). Gestures, referents, and anaphoric linkage in learner varieties. In Dimroth, C. & Starren, M. (Eds.) (pp. 311-328). Benjamins.
- Gullberg, M. & Kita, S. (2003). Das Beachten von Gesten: Eine Studie zu Blickverhalten und Integration gestisch ausgedrückter Information. K.G. Saur Verlag.
- Gullberg, M. & Holmqvist, K. (2002). Visual attention towards gestures in face-to-face interaction vs. on screen. In Wachsmuth, I. & Sowa, T. (Eds.) (pp. 206-214). Springer.
- Holmqvist, K. & Gullberg, M. (1999). Visual focus on gestures in conversational narratives. In Becker, W., Deubel, H. & Mergner, T. (Eds.) (pp. 305-308). Plenum Press.
Conference contributions (13)
- Andersson, A. & Gullberg, M. (2016). An ERP study of the relationship between verb semantics and events.
- Andersson, A. & Gullberg, M. (2016). Event processing is affected by an interaction between actual and canonical event properties and language : a visual ERP study.
- Andersson, A., Sayehli, S. & Gullberg, M. (2015). Native word order processing is not uniform: An ERP study of verb-second word order.
- Andersson, A., Sayehli, S. & Gullberg, M. (2014). Language background affects word order processing in a second language online but not offline.
- Debreslioska, S. & Gullberg, M. (2014). Scales of gestural progression and information status in discourse.
- Sayehli, S., Andersson, A. & Gullberg, M. (2014). Today read she the paper : An ERP study of the processing of word order in Swedish as a second language.
- Sayehli, S., Andersson, A. & Gullberg, M. (2014). Today read she the paper: An ERP study of the processing of word order in Swedish L2.
- Graziano, M. & Gullberg, M. (2013). Gesture production and speech fluency in competent speakers and language learners. Tilburg University.
- Tutunjian, D. & Gullberg, M. (2013). L1/L2 differences in processing verbal vs. adjectival short passive constructions. 26th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, 218-218. CUNY.
- Debreslioska, S., Gullberg, M. & Perniss, P. (2012). Speakers vary viewpoint and location with activeness/accessibility of referents in listener’s mind.
- Gullberg, M. & Holmqvist, K. (2001). Eye tracking and the perception of gestures in face-to-face interaction vs. on screen. In Cavé, C., Guaïtella, I. & Santi, S. (Eds.) (pp. 381-384). Harmattan.
- Gullberg, M. (1998). Gestures and speech in second language interaction. In Santi, S., Guaïtella, I., Cavé, C. & Konopczynski, G. (Eds.) (pp. 641-645). Harmattan.
- Gullberg, M. (1996). Deictic gesture and strategy in second language narrative. In Messing, L. S. (Ed.) (pp. 155-164). Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, University of Delaware.
Working papers (7)
- Gullberg, M. (1999). Gestures in spatial descriptions. Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics, 47. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Holmqvist, K. & Gullberg, M. (1998). Focus on gesture: visual attention towards gestures in conversation. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 70. Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M., Morén, J. & Stenfors, I. (1997). The transmission of visual information: an experimental study. Working Papers, 46. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (1995). Giving language a hand: gesture as a cue based communicative strategy *. Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics, 44. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (1994). Who's doing what to whom - testing the Competition Model on Swedish. Working Papers, 42. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (1993). Bertil Malmberg Bibliography. Working Papers in Linguistics, 40. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (1993). The role of co-verbal gestures in second language discourse–a case study. Working Papers, 40. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
Reviews (1)
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Miscellaneous (6)
- Gullberg, M. & Johansson, V. (2018). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2017. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2017). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2016. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2016). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2015. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2015). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2013-2014. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2013). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2012. Lund University.
- Gullberg, M. (2012). Lund University Humanities Lab Annual Report 2010-2011. Lund University.
Research portal (Lund University)
Other tasks and qualifications
Director (Head of dept.) Lund University Humanities Lab
Editorship international journals
- Language, Interaction and Acquisition
- Associate editor Language Learning, 2009-2014
- Info editor - Gesture, 2000-2017
Conference Chair EuroSLA 29, 2019
The Rausing Prize in Humanities 2014
Wallenberg Scholar 2012 - Embodied Bilingualism
Eva and Lars Gårding's Prize in Linguistics 2010
Vice-president European Second Language Association (Eurosla) 2003-2007; Co-opted Executive Board Member 1999-2002; 2008-2011
PI in the Linnaeus Centre Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning (CCL)
PI in the strategic research area eScience:eSSENCE (Uppsala, Lund, Umeå)
Board member the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies; LUNARC Centre for Scientific and Technical Computing, Lund University
Member of Academia Europaea
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Member of the Royal Society of Letters in Lund
Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund (President 2019)
Member of Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund
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