Record number of Marie Curie fellowships to UiT this year: And 5 of the 9 went to our research centre, AcqVA Aurora: The Dynamic Nature of Languages in the Mind!
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Best article in Second Language Research 2021-23 by Marit Westergaard!
We are happy to announce that Marit Westergaard has won the Michael Sharwood Smith Award for best article in Second Language Research 2021-23, for the keynote Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition. The article is now made available Open Access. You can read more about the award here.
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Linguists from UiT got high scores in the QS World University Rankings and made the news!
Read the full article here (in Norwegian): https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=808821
Pouran Seifi is joining our team at AcqVa Aurora as a MSCA Fellow
We are happy to announce that Pouran Seifi is joining our team at AcqVa Aurora as a MSCA Fellow! She will be working on the project Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Sentence processing, comprehension and production by child Turkish-Norwegian heritage bilinguals (TomRis) with Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard! The project TomRis advances our knowledge
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Two new MSCA Fellowships in AcqVA!
Amazing news! Two Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships were granted to caome work at AcqVA! Kirill Elin is coming to AcqVA Aurora to work with Vincent DeLuca and Janson Rothman. He has a great project that fits squarely into Theme IV of AcqVA and very complementary to the large Bilingualism and Cognitive Aging Project we are running
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Kletsheads podcast on Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition
The latest episode of Kletsheads in English featured a study by our dearest Yulia Rodina, Tanja Kupisch, Natalia Meir, Natalia Mitrofanova, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard: Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence From Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Education https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00020. Listen it here.
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The Abstract Submission for ISBPAC 2022 has been extended to March 11th, 2022!
The abstract submission deadline for the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022) has been extended to March 11th, 2022! Please submit your abstract via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbpac2022
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Call for papers – 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022)
Abstract Submission deadline: March 1st, 2022 The 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022) August 4th and 5th, 2022 The Aurora Center for Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition (AcqVA Aurora) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is pleased to invite you to the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults
Five calls for postdoc candidates interested in applying for a MSCA Individual Fellowship in Linguistics
Are you interested in doing a postdoc project on multilingualism in an active and productive research environment? Then you should consider applying for a Marie Curie fellowship to join the AcqVA Aurora Centre (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition) at UiT! We have five (!) prolific researchers that may become your MSCA supervisor. Send us your CV
2-year postdoc position at the project ADIM (Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism)
A 2-year postdoc position is available at UiT for the project ADIM (Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism), funded by EEA Norway grants, PIs Magdalena Wrembel (Poznan) and Marit Westergaard (UiT). One corresponding postdoc position will soon be advertised at NTNU in Trondheim, and two at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Application deadline January 30, 2022