LAMiNATE Talks

LAMiNATE Talks is seminar series that aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion on language acquisition, multilingualism and teaching. Talks are held online (https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/64114834000) or in hybrid form every other Tuesday afternoon 15.15-16.30 CET, with participants not only from Lund but also with a wider audience.

The spring 2025 series will include the following talks:

January 28: Lara Culev, Pompeu Fabra University — Italian as a Heritage Language in Catalonia: A Study on the Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns in Young Speakers

February 11: Camilo R. Ronderos, University of Oslo —The social dimension of mindreading: Developmental evidence for the role of social categorization during utterance interpretation

February 25: Angelica Zordan, University of Verona — L1 and L2 compound processing: An eye-tracking study on Italian students with typical development and developmental dyslexia

March 11: Marianne Gullberg, Lund University & Chloë R. Marshall, University College London — The adult capacity for language learning at first exposure and the role of language modality

March 25: Birutė Spraunienė, Vilnius University — L1 versus L2 Transfer Effects in Adult Lithuanians' L3 Danish

April 8: Alastair Henry, LU; Joost van der Weijer, LU; Céline Rocher Hahlin, Dalarna University & Jonas Granfeldt, LU — Transforming motivation for foreign languages: Results from an intervention study

April 22: Gary Libben, Brock University — Semantic transparency and the bilingual/multilingual lexicon

May 6: Nan Jiang, University of Maryland — The prominence of linguistic form in L2 processing

May 20: Jeffrey Steele, University of Toronto — Articulatory Approaches to Second Language Speech Learning: Insights from the Acquisition of English and French