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Center for Language, Brain and Learning
@c-labl.bsky.social
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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
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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
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❓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...
https://en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel/911687/practical_workshop_on_trauma-informed_approaches
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🌟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
Antti Saloranta Tania Leal Tekabe Legesse Feleke
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🌟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
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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
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Celebrating new grants and gathering for our retreat!
Five projects funded by the Research Council of Norway! Huge congratulations to Natalia Mitrofanova, Vincent DeLuca, Kristine Bentzen, Monica Norvik & Leena Maria Heikkola. No celebration without cake! Sun setting over Nikkavatnet i Malangen C-LaBL members at our retreat in Malangen
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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 ...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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3 new projects led by C-LaBL members funded by the Research Council of Norway 🎉
Congratulations to Kristine Bentzen, Monica I. Norvik and Leena Maria Heikkola (@leenamariaheikkola.bsky.social)
#Samí #Kven #Noskfinsk #Skogfinsk #CulturalHeritage #grants #research
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90 millioner til forskningsprosjekter som skal styrker kunnskap om samisk, kvensk/norskfinsk og skogsfinsk samfunn og kultur
Åtte prosjekter får finansiering for å forske på temaer som skal gi ny kunnskap om samiske, kvenske/norskfinske og skogfinske forhold. Tildelingen er en direkte oppfølging av Sannhets- og forsoningsko...
www.forskningsradet.no
September 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Come work with us!
linguistlist.bsky.social Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Sep 16
Jobs: English, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Postdoctoral Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Jobs: English, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk; Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Postdoctoral Fellow in Multilingualism and Language Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Other Specialties: Multilingualism, Multilectalism, Second Language Acquisition, Third Language Acquisition, Simultaneous Acquisition, Closely Related Varieties Description: Position: A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The position is affiliated with the Center for Language, Brain & Learning (C-LaBL), more specifically the Learning domai
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September 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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🌟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
Frå venstre direktør i Språkrådet, Åse Wetås (foto: Oda Hveem), forfattar Monica Goksøyr (foto: Oda Berby), prosjektleiar for MultiLit, Øystein A. Vangsnes (foto: privat), og forfattar Anders Totland (foto: Helge Skodvin). Jakub Przybył
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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🎉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...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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❓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
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🌟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
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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
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Indeed we are, thanks for sharing!
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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🌍✨ 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
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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
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🌟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
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📢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
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@ogneva.bsky.social and collaborators did a longitudinal study in preterm children, check it out!
🔗https://rdcu.be/eqGFF
#langsky #linguistics
Writing skills and executive functions: What happens to low risk preterm children?
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June 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Language is always changing - take a look at the changes in grammatical gender in the Oslo dialect in this new paper by Guro Busterud, Terje Lohndal, Toril Opsahl, Yulia Rodina and Marit Westergaard 😊
🔗https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586525000071
#langsky #linguistics
Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect | Nordic Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🌟This week at C-LaBL🌟

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* everyone is at #ISB15 at the BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language *
June 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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❓Did you read the essay by Jan Hulstjin on the BLC theory from 2024?
Jason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Jiuzhou Hao and Patrick Rebuschat sure did, and they have comments 🤩!⤵️
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10050098
You can find the original essay here:
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050173
#langsky
June 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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❓Do L3 learners acquire their new language property-by-property based on co-activation of their previously acquired languages, or do they make a ‘wholesale’ transfer from one of their previously acquired languages into the new one?
🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251332128
#langsky #linguistics
May 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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🌟This week at C-LaBL 🌟
📢AcqVA-Nor Workshop : "Parallel Language Acquisition"
📅26.05; 13:13 CEST
🎙️Mirjam Broersma, Sterre Leufkens, Kjersti Faldet Listhaug

📢Brain Domain/HL2C Seminar: "Multilectal influence on reading: Language, Brain and Learning"
📅28.05; 13:00 CEST (12:00 UK time)
🎙️Jade Sandstedt
May 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM