{"id":110,"date":"2017-03-03T13:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2017-03-07T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:02:12","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Overview<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/research\/research-projects\/\">Projects<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/research\/output\/\">Output<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Our research spans\u00a0syntax, phonology, language acquisition, and related domains.\u00a0We are organized into two research groups,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castlfish\/\">CASTL-FISH (Formal Investigations into Structure and Hierarchy)<\/a>, which covers syntax and phonology and their interfaces, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/\">LAVA (Language Acquisition, Variation, and Attrition)<\/a>, which investigates first and second language acquisition, the nature of linguistic variation, and language attrition in heritage speakers.<\/h3>\n<p>CASTL is a research center at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.uit.no\/ikbViewer\/page\/startsida\">University of Troms\u00f8<\/a>\u00a0(UiT),\u00a0housing an international team of researchers.\u00a0CASTL also runs one of UiT\u2019s special graduate schools (<em>forskerskoler<\/em>),\u00a0providing an active, intense, and informal research atmosphere for our graduate students, with several research seminars and colloquia every week.<\/p>\n<p>CASTL operates as a loose confederation of about two dozen researchers with PhDs in linguistics and about a dozen PhD students at any given time, with various research projects involving different constellations of researchers and national and international networks of collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0syntax\u00a0groups are\u00a0working on several topics at the interfaces of syntax with other systems, in particular morphology and semantics. On the empirical side, we are deeply committed to comparative work, and to an integration of morphological, semantic and syntactic patterns. Our research includes a range of subprojects, including work on Bantu languages, Nordic dialect syntax, lexical semantics, and spell-out.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0phonology,\u00a0CASTL researchers are\u00a0exploring a phonology which is strictly separated from phonetics (&#8220;substance-free&#8221;) and where much of the structure is emergent from general principles rather than given by Universal Grammar (&#8220;minimalist&#8221;). This research is divided into two main subprojects: one on feature theory (the internal representation of segments) and one on prosodic theory (how segments relate to one another).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0acquisition\u00a0researchers are\u00a0exploring children&#8217;s sensitivity to micro-variation in the input within a new approach to language acquisition and change &#8211; based on micro-cues.<\/p>\n<p>The CASTLplus mailing list informs members of the CASTL community about upcoming event and activities. It is mainly of interest if you are located in Troms\u00f8. If you would like to be on the list, follow this link to add your e-mail address:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/list.uit.no\/sympa\/subscribe\/castlplus\">https:\/\/list.uit.no\/sympa\/subscribe\/castlplus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all the latest news from CASTL, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/castlnews.wordpress.com\/\">CASTL news blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Projects Output Our research spans\u00a0syntax, phonology, language acquisition, and related domains.\u00a0We are organized into two research groups,\u00a0CASTL-FISH (Formal Investigations into Structure and Hierarchy), which covers syntax and phonology and their interfaces, and\u00a0LAVA (Language Acquisition, Variation, and Attrition), which investigates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}