Monthly Archives: February 2012

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →