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 2026 series will include the talks listed below. Click on the link to read the abstract and other additional information.
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 and Jinhee Kwon, 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 — Letting writers speak: Children writing with speech-to-text
March 17: Maria Rydell, Stockholm University — Performative teaching for migrant students with emergent literacy
April 14: Anne Beatty-Martínez, University of California, San Diego — Bilingualism reveals how experience shapes language and the brain
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 — Flexible Adaptation of Language Processing Under Challenge
June 9: Wander Lowie, University of Groningen — Complex dynamic systems theory for second language development: Where are we now?
