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/64710062543) or in hybrid form every other Tuesday afternoon 15.15-16.30 (Stockholm time zone), with participants not only from Lund but also with a wider audience.

The spring 2025 series will include the following talks:

January 20: Alastair Henry, Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature — Can we get a theory wrong? And what happens if we do? A reappraisal of the L2 Motivational Self System

February 3: Sabine Gosselke Berthelsen, Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature — How do L1 and L2 listeners process Danish stød: Psycholinguistic studies of acoustically complex syllable-level prosody

February 17: Benjamin Macaulay, Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature — Transmission and acquisition in a language revitalization context: a case study of Saaroa

March 3: Åsa Wengelin, University of Gothenburg — TBA

March 17: Maria Rydell, Stockholm University — TBA

April 14: Anne Beatty-Martínez, University of California, San Diego — TBA

April 28: Edith Kaan, University of Florida — Language models and L2 processing

May 12: José Alemán Bañón, Stockholm University — Examining predictive processing at different levels of linguistic representation in L1 and L2 speakers: Evidence from event-related potentials

May 26: Gesa Hartwigsen, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig — TBA

June 9: Wander Lowie, University of Groningen — Complex dynamic systems theory for second language development: Where are we now?

LAMiNATE Talks mailing list

If you want to be notified about upcoming talks, please email henriette.arndt@ling.lu.se. We send one announcement and one reminder for each talk.

Following the tradition of the "academic quarter" LAMiNATE Talks start at 15.15. The tradition is said to date back to the time when students had to rely on the Cathedral bells to get to lectures on time. Read more about the phenomenon in the Academic Glossary.

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