Profiled Research Areas at Stockholm University

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Our research areas are part of the Stockholm University's Profile Areas. Find out more about the Linguistics profile in the Language and Language Acquisition profile of the Stockholm University's Profile Areas.

Leading research
Between 2007–2014, the Department of Linguistics was appointed as a leading research area at Stockholm University. This appointment applied specifically to two of the department’s major research interests, early speech development and language typology, the latter encompassing the study of cross language patterns in grammar and lexicon.

Our research and dissertations
Research and graduate studies are two of the department’s main activities and our education at all levels is closely connected to ongoing research.

Our main research areas are in Computational Linguistics, Child Language Development, General Linguistics, Typology and Linguistic Diversity, Phonetics, Swedish Sign Language and Swedish as a Second Language for the Deaf.
Read about our research areas and our publications and dissertations.

Profile Areas at Stockholm University

New publications

Phonological Variations Are Compensated at the Lexical Level: Evidence From Auditory Neural Activity 2021-08-27 This paper by Hatice Zora et al. investigates the consequences of plausible and implausible variations on lexical access. The main result is consistent with the larger notion that the long-term memory representations for words enable rapid lexical access even in the case of partial auditory information.
Sign languages and second language acquisition research: An introduction (K. Schönström) 2021-08-23 This paper includes a brief contemporary overview of sign language and Sign Second Language Acquisition research, together with some insights from the research on iconicity and gestures. It also includes some examples from studies on L2 signers of Swedish Sign language (STS).
The Hindu Kush–Karakorum and linguistic areality (H. Liljegren) 2021-08-23 The article summarizes and discusses the most important results of the research project Language contact and relatedness in the Hindu Kush region (2015—2020).
Modality-Focused L2-Instruction in Swedish Sign Language 2021-07-12 This empirical study by Ingela Holmström shows a language teaching context that largely differs from other language teaching contexts and how students experience this new language learning process. The article is a part of the UTL2 project at the Department of Linguistics.
Prototype Semantics and Cross‐Linguistic Comparison 2021-03-19 In our article we attempt to relate the achievements and discussion within cross-linguistic research on semantics to the general discussion of categorisation and prototypes. We conclude that categories, as they emerge in the course of cross-linguistic research, have fuzzy boundaries and seem to be organized in terms of prototypes.
Use and acquisition of mouth actions in L2 sign language learners : A corpus-based approach (2021) 2021-01-04 This article deals with L2 acquisition of a sign language, examining in particular the use and acquisition of non-manual mouth actions performed by L2 learners of Swedish Sign Language.
N1 repetition-attenuation for acoustically variable speech and spectrally rotated speech 2020-12-21 In the present study, N1 repetition-attenuation was investigated for speech and spectrally rotated speech with varying degrees of acoustic and perceptual category variation.
The dynamics of vowel hypo-and hyperarticulation in Swedish infant-directed speech to 12-month-olds 2020-12-21 Vowel hypo- and hyperarticulation (VHH) was investigated in Swedish infant-directed speech (IDS) to Swedish 12-month-olds using a measure that normalizes across speakers and vowels: the vhh-index.
Links between language and executive functions in Swedish preschool children: A pilot study 2021-03-19 The pilot study included 47 children aged 4–6 and aimed at describing the relationship between language and executive functions.
Breathing in Conversation 2020-11-04 This work revisits the problem of breathing cues used for management of speaking turns in multiparty casual conversation.
Conveying environmental context to deafblind people: a study of tactile sign language interpreting. 2020-11-04 This paper aims to contribute to the field of tactile sign language interpreting by describing how two Tactile Swedish Sign Language interpreters convey environmental information to two deafblind women.
Evidence of an Effect of Gaming Experience on Visuospatial Attention in Deaf but Not in Hearing... 2020-11-04 Using a test of attentional control, we found that deaf gamers performed on a par with hearing controls, while the performance of deaf non-gamers was poorer. Among hearing controls there was no effect of gaming. This suggests that deaf gamers may have better visuospatial attentional control than deaf non-gamers.

New grants

Research funding from the MAW Foundation to Iris-Corinna Schwarz Iris-Corinna Schwarz was granted SEK 4.5 million for the five-year project "Parent affect in infant-directed speech and its role in language learning (PALL)". The aim of the project is to provide a picture of how infants' language learning is affected by various socio-emotional factors.
Two linguistic research projects are awarded grants from The Swedish Research Council Karolina Grzech, Henrik Bergqvist and Henrik Liljegren at the Department of Linguistics has been awarded grants for two upcoming reseach projects.

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Department of Linguistics
Stockholm University
SE - 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address
Department of Linguistics
Universitetsvägen 10 C
Frescati, Stockholm, Sweden
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Email: exp@ling.su.se
Telephone: +46 8 16 23 47
Fax: +46 8 15 53 89
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