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/65426042459) 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 autumn 2026 series will include the talks listed below. Click on the link to read the abstract and other additional information. 

September 15: Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland, College Park — One Program, Three Fields: What Heritage Speakers Tell Us About Endangered Languages

September 29: Mohamed Salama, University of Groningen — Portrait of a Learner Who Doesn't Exist: Relational Non-Ergodicity and Dynamic Task-Based Pedagogy in L2 Development

October 13: Klara Marton, Brooklyn College — Cognitive control along two language dimensions: language ability and bilingual proficiency

October 27: Helene Springer, Lund University — Different vowel inventories, similar perceptual demands: The role of perceptual similarity and proficiency in the perception of second language vowels

November 10: Kerry Ebert, University of Minnesota — Cognitive Profiles and Language Ability in DLD: A Latent Profile Analysis Across Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds

November 24: Annika Andersson, Linnaeus University — The carrot: On how to motivate preschoolers to learn Swedish as a second language

December 8: Caroline Rowland, Radboud University — Learning language in multimodal interaction