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Center for Language, Brain and Learning
@c-labl.bsky.social
We are a research group at @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social focusing on how multiple languages interact in the mind/brain. The center is funded by @mohnfoundation.bsky.social.
🔗https://uit.no/research/clabl
🌟Nytt samarbeid🌟
❓Korleis språkleg variasjon blir representert og prosessert i hjernen – både mellom dialektar og mellom tale og skrift?
🔗 www.hivolda.no/forsking-og-...
Får 10 millionar til språkforsking i Volda
HVOs førsteamanuensis Jade Sandstedt har nådd opp i den knallharde konkurransen om midlar til banebrytande forsking. No ventar fire år med nyskapande gransking av korleis dialektvariasjon påverkar les...
www.hivolda.no
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
❓Hvordan påvirker unges bruk av engelsk på sosiale medier utviklingen av det norske språket, og hvilke typer anglisismer har størst sannsynlighet for å bli en varig del av språket?

Anne Mette Sunde har skrevet nettopp om dette temaet 😁⤵️
septentrio.uit.no/index.php/ma...
Aldersbetinga variasjon eller språkendring? Om unge nordmenn og engelskpåvirkning | Målbryting
Institutt for språk og kultur, postdoktor ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet
septentrio.uit.no
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟
📢Language reading group
📅26.11 14:15 CET
📄Cognate facilitation in... (Koutamanis et. al, 2024)
📄The role of cognates and language distance in...(Koutamanis et. al, 2025)
🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dBhRBD26

📢Issues in Phonological Typology
📅27 & 27.11
🔗 phontyp.github.io
Issues in Phonological Typology
phontyp.github.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
C-LaBL members are working hard 💪
Four fresh publications involving our members ⤵️

Wulff, Stefanie; Ellis, Nick C.; Rothman, Jason (2025). Dichotomies as points of departure: A response to Truscott and Sharwood Smith (2024).
🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583251389445
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Last week, C-LaBL & LINC hosted a workshop with Ukrainian psychologist Anna Lenchovska, Director of Kyiv’s #TolerSpace. It focused on #Ukraine, #Multilingualism & #RefugeeSupport.

Thanks to Anna & all who joined!

🔗 en.uit.no/project/linc
🔗https://www.tolerspace.org.ua/
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
📢Lunch Seminar this week with Peter Svenonius
📄What is a word?
📅Thursday at 12:15 CEST
🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dB3Ne5Qs

Abstract ⤵️
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Holding it Together Over Time: Multilingual engagement, working memory and resting state brain activity

Our very own Anders Gabrielsen will talk about whether degree of multilingual engagement contributes to the maintenance of working memory (WM) performance across the adult lifespan 🇳🇴🇬🇧🧠👶👧👩‍🦰👵
MC/HL2C Seminar: Anders Gabrielsen, Wednesday 12 November, 12:00pm - Lancaster University
This event is co-organised by the Multilingualism and Cognition Research Group, the Heritage Language 2 Consortium (HL2C), and UiT’s Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C/LaBL) Brain Domain.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
❓Are you a researcher, educator, or practitioner working with displaced or war-affected communities?
🎙️Anna Lenchovska
✅ Trauma-informed teaching
✅ Trauma-informed research
✅ Self-care and burnout prevention
📅 11.11
📍 UiT /Zoom

💻Register by November 3 nettskjema.no/a/557151
en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟 1/2

📢Language Reading Group
📅29.10, 14:15 CEST
🎙️Tekabe Feleke
📄Mapping the dimensions of linguistic distance: A study on South Ethiosemitic languages (2020)
🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dsc6d2Vx
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟
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📢Phonology Reading Group
📅21.10 (today!), 14:15 CEST
🎙️Nick Kalivoda
📄Properties of the Italo-Romance coda typology
🔗Teams: lnkd.in/dzHksVQn
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at AMU, Poznań (Poland) will host the workshop “Bidirectional cross-linguistic effects of structural similarity in child multilingualism”. Keynote lectures by leading international experts on child bilingualism and language attrition 🌟
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Celebrating new grants and gathering for our retreat!
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Center for Language, Brain and Learning
New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers
New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers
Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...
phys.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟
• Lunch Seminar with Jakub Przybył (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
🔗https://uit.no/research/clabl#880862_buttoncont1
• Conference "Nynorsk på nye måtar" with @vangsnes.bsky.social
🔗https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/882035/konferanse_nynorsk_pa_nye_matar
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🎉One of the 18 selected #FRIPRO projects🎉

12M NOK for "Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition (MOVA)"

The project aims to understand the complex dynamics of multilingual language development and maintenance for Ukrainian refugees in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Norway🤩

#linguistics
191 millioner kroner til toppforskning på blant annet digitalisering i skolen | Forskningsrådet
18 forskningsprosjekter får nå millionstøtte fra Forskningsrådet. Forskerne skal blant annet finne ut hvordan bruk av nettbrett i skolen påvirker elevenes trivsel og læring, hvordan ukrainske barn lær...
kommunikasjon.ntb.no
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
❓Do Bilingual Brains Process Grammar Differently?
🌍🧠EEG reveals how proficiency and exposure shape grammatical gender processing in Spanish heritage speakers.

#Bilingualism #EEGStudy #CognitiveResearch #linguistics
🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125101149
Individual differences matter in heritage language bilingual processing | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core
Individual differences matter in heritage language bilingual processing
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟
We are pleased to host several visitors this week!

• Joshua Hartshorne (@mghinstitute.bsky.social)
📅 15-16.09: Methods Workshop
📅 17.09: Guest Lecture

• Regular guests from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: Anna Olszewska, Kamil Długosz, Jakub Przybył

#linguistics
September 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our research team, from Prague to Tours: Exploring how children’s minds shape and process language 🌍✨

📍 AMLaP 2025, Prague 🇨🇿
📍 Child Language Symposium 2025, Reading 🇬🇧
📍 X-PPL 2025, Zürich 🇨🇭
📍GALA 2025, Tours 🇫🇷

#Linguistics #Bilingualism #HeritageLanguage #langsky
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Indeed we are, thanks for sharing!
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
🌍✨ New Research Alert! ✨🌍

‪The @ludoserratrice.bsky.social‬ group at ‪@uniofreading.bsky.social‬ have published a new study on fostering #InterculturalCompetence in primary school children through the #YoungInterpreterScheme (YIS)!
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2025.2541070
#Education #Research
Exploring intercultural competence in children: the role of the young interpreter scheme
Intercultural competence is an essential skill in today's increasing multicultural society, including in educational settings, as it facilitates effective communication and fosters inclusivity. The...
doi.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today is Brechje van Osch's last day at @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social after well over five years in our research group. We are sad to see her go, but very happy – and proud – that she is leaving for a permanent position as Associate Professor in English Linguistics at @unistavanger.bsky.social ! 🎓✨
July 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟
We are welcoming over 350 researchers for #EuroSLA34 🤩
🔗https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/845263/eurosla_34
@uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social
@ant-neuro.com Brain Products ‪@mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social‬
June 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📢Extra lunch seminar this week!
PhD student Carla Menares Arancibia visiting us from King's College London will present her project 😊
📄Real-time processing of gender cues in early L3 acquisition
📅Thursday June 19th, 12:00 CEST
#Linguistics #LanguageAcquisition #ResearchTalk
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June 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM