Berit Anne, a CASTL affiliate and a member of both Tromsø Acquisition research group and DASAGO (North Sami child language research project) did a great interview on TV (NRK Nordnytt at 18:40 ) about the importance of focusing on child language in the revitalization of Sami. You can watch the news clip here.
Congratulations on the successful interview, Berit Anne!
Tromsø acquisition research on bilingualism was presented at forskning.no by Kristine Bentzen and Merete Anderssen. According to Bentzen and Anderssen, bilingual children have an awareness for language, earlier than monolingual children. And the sooner they start learning two languages, the better they become at acquiring both languages. Follow the link here for details (in Norwegian).
The project “Transitivity Alternations in Norwegian and English: Experimental Investigations” led by prof. Gillian Ramchand was one of four projects at HSL-fak that got funding from FRIHUM through the so-called “Fellesløftet”. “Fellesløftet” is a cooperation between UiT and the Ministry of Education that aims at increasing the funding for free project support (FRIPRO). Congratulations, Gillian!
In the end of 2011 CASTL was granted 25.800 NOK from the faculty as a reward for dissemination of research results in 2010. Thanks to all of you who have contributed! It also shows that it is important to register all your work in CRISTIN.
6 fully funded PhD positions in theoretical and/or experimental linguistics at CASTL are now advertized. The successful applicant will propose a research project that is compatible with ongoing work at CASTL in the areas of syntax, phonology or language acquisition. There will be two positions in each of the three subdisciplines (syntax, phonology, language acquisition). This distribution may be adjusted in case there are not enough suitable candidates in each of the subdisciplines.
This is an excellent opportunity to study at one of the world’s premier graduate schools in generative linguistics while experiencing Tromsø’s unique environment! The deadline is March 7th, and the full announcement is here.
This time in Journal of Child Language (2012):
Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: A cue-based approach to the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian. Check it out here.
A new level 2 article is published by the acquisition group. This article investigates the acquisition of object shift in Norwegian child language. Check it out here.
