Foto: Rik Eshuis/2006

In the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab we investigate language skills in children and adults. The lab is primarily dedicated to basic research. We do experimental research on language acquisition (first language acquisition with children and second language acquisition with adults) as well as on language processing (for instance comprehension and categorisation). Our goal is to find out how humans develop their abilities to understand and reflect on the world around them and to talk about it. Closely related is the question what young children know about the world around them. How do they think? How do they learn to talk?

Recent Developments and news:

Click here for some pictures of our stand on the 'forskningsdagene' and researcher's night 2009.

The Workshop Talent in the face of deficit was held in Trondheim, August 27-28, 2009.

Research Seminar: Dysleksi og språklæring – engelsk/fremmedspråk. March, 27, 2009

Our Lab now co-ordinates the Nordic Infrastructure Project:

Spatial categorization and language across populations

and was granted a pilot project on fictive motion:

Fictive motion NordForsk seed money pilot

Click here (PDF) for a recent research article: Eshuis, R., Coventry, K. R., & Vulchanova, M. (2009). Predictive eye movements are driven by goals, not by the mirror neuron system. Psychological Science. Note that this version differs slightly from the final version. Click here for Psychological Science's online publication (full text access requires subscription).