GREAT NEWS: Two MSCA individual fellowships to the LAVA group
The European Commission has just granted the LAVA group TWO Marie Skƚodowska Curie individual fellowships (MSCA-IF), to Rachel Klassen (Ottawa) and Evelina Leivada (Cyprus). These are 2-year postdoc positions which will start in the summer/fall of 2017. Here is a brief description of the two projects:
GenBiLex (Rachel Klassen)
The GenBiLex project (Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical GENder in the BIlingual LEXicon) investigates L1 and L2 gender features in the lexicon of bilinguals whose languages differ in number of gender values (e.g. 2 vs 3 values) or with respect to the values themselves (e.g. common/neuter vs masculine/feminine). This research aims to deepen our understanding of the representation and processing of grammatical gender by developing a comprehensive proposal of gender from psycholinguistic, language acquisition and theoretical linguistic perspectives.
DIVA (Evelina Leivada)
The DIVA project (DIsentangling VAriation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization) investigates the ways in which variation in the linguistic input leaves its footprint on language growth and its final outcome. Its findings will shed light on how various structures are processed by the mono-/bilingual mind and elucidate whether some or all types of bilingualism confer a cognitive advantage in this processing.
See also the UiT news here.
