{"id":2612,"date":"2019-12-19T19:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2022-02-01T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T18:39:15","slug":"lava-becomes-acqva-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/2019\/12\/19\/lava-becomes-acqva-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"LAVA becomes AcqVA Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008080\">Aurora Center grant to the LAVA group<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Our application to become an Aurora Center has been granted!!! <span lang=\"EN-US\">This is a 30 million NOK grant from UiT that will make it possible to hire a number of new people and do many cool things over the next four years (see below for a summary of the center proposal).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/nyheter\/artikkel?p_document_id=659355&amp;p_dim=265634&amp;fbclid=IwAR0QMrCWSWgFpfW0eMCFPbpdk7ajKC60dn_Gkinef4yjD71D7-9pJEefMAg#\">Among the great news from the RCN<\/a> this December, you can also read the following about UiT funding of research:<\/p>\n<p><em>For \u00e5 posisjonere de\u00a0fremste milj\u00f8ene ved UiT og gj\u00f8re dem sterke nok til \u00e5 konkurrere eksternt har UiT opprettet en ordning med tildeling av s\u00e5kalte Aurora-sentre.\u00a0Det ble nylig kjent at UiT f\u00e5r to slike nye sentre. Disse er:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Center for Language Acquisition, Variation &amp; Attrition: The Dynamic Nature of Languages in the Mind som ledes av Marit Westergaard ved HSL-fakultetet<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Aurora Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems Modelling som ledes av Odd Erik Garcia ved NT-fakultetet.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Aurora-sentrene tildeles milj\u00f8er som er fremragende og som har en ambisjon om \u00e5 s\u00f8ke Senter for fremragende forskning i Forskningsr\u00e5det ved neste utlysning. Jeg er stolt over at det ble sendt inn mange sv\u00e6rt gode s\u00f8knader. Det betyr at det er hard konkurranse i Aurora-sentersatsingen, sier UiT-rektor Anne Husebekk.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Center for Language Acquisition, Variation &amp; Attrition (AcqVA):<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>The Dynamic Nature of Languages in the Mind<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Marit Westergaard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal investigators: <\/strong>Yulia Rodina &amp; Fatih Bayram (<em>Theme 1<\/em>), Merete Anderssen &amp; Natalia Mitrofanova (<em>Theme 2<\/em>), \u00d8ystein Vangsnes &amp; Terje Lohndal (<em>Theme 3<\/em>), Jason Rothman &amp; Evelina Leivada (<em>Theme 4<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humans are unique among animals in that we have language, a complex system enabling com\u00admuni\u00adcation about any topic, be it past, present or future. In fact, humans are not limited to one language, but can acquire several under the right conditions. Nevertheless, bi- and multilingualism (henceforth referred to as multilingualism, unless further specified) is not an <em>either-or<\/em> pheno\u00admenon, as multi\u00adlingual minds may (and typically do) undergo numerous changes across the lifespan, as a result of linguistic and non-linguistic factors. This means that <strong>multilingual minds comprise dyna\u00admic linguistic systems<\/strong>, as co-existing languages affect each other in a multi\u00adtude of ways, both in the acquisition process and beyond. The AcqVA Aurora Center will conduct ecolo\u00adgi\u00adcally valid research, re\u00adflect\u00ading today\u2019s globa\u00adlized world, where learning mul\u00adtiple lan\u00adguages at various points in the lifetime has become increasingly common. Our research will focus on a range of multi\u00adlingual speaker groups and thus feed into current chal\u00adlenges related to migration, education, and health, addressing important and yet unanswered questions for science and society. AcqVA Aurora will combine solid empi\u00adri\u00adcal work with advanced theoretical (and statistical) model\u00ading in three domains: A) <strong>Acquisition:<\/strong> how multilingual minds develop in children and adults, B) <strong>Variation:<\/strong> how and why languages may differ considerably across indivi\u00adduals and groups in space and time, and C) <strong>Attrition:<\/strong> how and why language erosion may occur over the course of the lifespan. The three domains will be studied within four cross-cutting themes, focusing on inter\u00adrelated issues of multi\u00adlingualism: 1) how linguistic and non-linguistic experiential factors shape linguistic and cognitive outcomes, 2) how multiple languages in the same mind influence each other, 3) how clo\u00adsely related varieties co-existing in the same mind are processed, and 4) how representing and juggling multiple languages manifest and result in adaptations at the neurological and domain-general cognitive levels. Both senior and junior scholars will be repre\u00adsented among the PIs, which will ensure future recruitment and fulfil the intention of the Aurora call, preparing team members for further grant proposals, e.g. a Center of Excellence (CoE) from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and European Research Council grants (ERCs). AcqVA Aurora will hire four postdoctoral fellows and four inter\u00adnational Adjunct Professors (20%), one for each theme, plus a lab manager. Further\u00admore, we will fill a gap in our current theoretical and methodological focus by hiring one full pro\u00adfessor with a strong track record in neuro\u00adcognition of multi\u00adlingualism and qualifications in neuroimaging metho\u00addologies (e.g. MRI), com\u00adplementing the beha\u00advioral and psycho\u00adlinguistic methods already in use in our labs. This means that AcqVA Aurora will add ten outstanding scholars to the current team, making UiT a world-leading center for research on the linguistic and cognitive sciences of multi\u00adlingualism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Center grant to the LAVA group Our application to become an Aurora Center has been granted!!! This is a 30 million NOK grant from UiT that will make it possible to hire a number of new people and do many cool things over the next four years (see below &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acqva-aurora","tag-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}