Niclas Abrahamsson

• 1994-present (yearly/several times per year since 1998): Courses in SLA, bilingual development, and Swedish as a Second Language at BA, MA, and PhD levels (regular programs and teacher-training programs), Stockholm University.
• 2009-present (yearly/several times per year): Courses in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives in SLA and bilingualism at BA, MA, and PhD levels (regular programs and teacher-training programs), Stockholm University.
• 1997-present: Occasional guest lectures on SLA, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, L2 phonology, and research methodology in numerous programs in linguistics, logopedics, modern languages, and Swedish as a second language at different Swedish and Nordic universities.

Main supervisor

• Katrin Stölten (Stockholm University, the Centre), graduated 2013: “The Effects of Age of Onset on VOT in L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition. A Study of the Speech Production and Perception of Advanced Spanish-Swedish Bilinguals”
• Memet Aktürk-Drake (Stockholm University, the Centre), graduated 2015: “Phonological Adoption through Bilingual Borrowing. Comparing Elite Bilinguals and Heritage Bilinguals”
• Helena Smeds (Stockholm University, the Centre), graduated 2015: “Blindness and Second Language Acquisition. Studies of Cognitive Advantage in Blind L1 and L2 Speakers”
• Tatiana Antontchik (Stockholm University, the Centre), ongoing: “Acquisition of Compounding in Swedish as a Second Language”
• Marta Quevedo Rodriguez (Stockholm University, the Centre), ongoing: “Effects of Language-dependent Memory in Bilinguals” (working title)
• Maryann Su Lin Tan (Stockholm University, the Centre), ongoing: “Lexically Guided Perceptual Learning of Foreign Accented Swedish and its Positional Transfer”

Co-supervisor

• Emanuel Bylund (Stockholm University, the Centre), graduated 2008: “Age Differences in First Language Attrition. A Maturational Constraints Perspective”
• Alejandra Donoso (Stockholm University, Dept of Romance Studies and Classics), graduated 2016: “Expresiones de movimiento en español como segunda lengua y como lengua heredada. Conceptualización y entrega del Camino, Manera y Base”
• Raphaël Domange (Stockholm University, English Dept), graduated 2023: “The Vowels of Delhi English. Three Studies in Sociophonetics”
• Johanna Einarsson (Stockholm University, Dept of Swedish Language and Multilingualism), ongoing: “Intonation hos L2-talare av svenska” [Intonation of L2 speakers of Swedish]
• Anna Persson (Stockholm University, Dept of Swedish Language and Multilingualism), ongoing: “Språklig anpassning till andraspråkstal” [Linguistic adaptation to second-language speech]

​Research projects

• 2020-2021: “Multilingualism and the Lexical Deficit: a Meta-analysis” (co-applicant), grant no. 200-0676, Byggmästare Olle Engqvists Stiftelse (main applicant/project leader: E. Bylund).
• 2017-2019: “A Compensatory Role for Explicit/Declarative Memory in Grammatical Processing: A Combined Latency, ERP, and tDCS Study of Nativelike Second Language Acquisition” (main applicant/project leader), grant no. 2016-01630, VR/Swedish Research Council (co-applicant: E. Bylund). [Read more]
• 2017: “Native Listeners’ Perception of Near-native Speech: The Roles of Expectancy Violations, Stereotype Incongruity, and Reconstructive Memory” (project leader), partly supported by (i) a grant from The IDO-foundation for language research in memory of Hellmut Röhnisch, and (ii) part of grant no. SAB16-0051:1, RJ/Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (co-worker: A. Persson).
• 2017: “Age, Maturational Constraints and the Critical Period for Language Acquisition. What have we Learnt from Very Advanced Second Language Users – and What Remains to be Learnt?” (RJ Sabbatical, the full year of 2017), grant no. SAB16-0051:1, RJ/Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
• 2015-2020: “Bilingualism and Second Languages”, leading research area at Stockholm University, 2015-2020 (co-ordinator and author of the application), six-year grant to five departments, Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities.
• 2010-2012: “Non-nativelike Ultimate Attainment in a Second Language: An Effect of Age of Onset or of Bilingualism?” (project leader; co-workers: E. Bylund, K. Hyltenstam), sub-project within the research program “High-level Second Language Use”, 2006-2012, grant no. M2005-0459, RJ/Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (program coordinator: K. Hyltenstam).
• 2008-2010: “Perceptual Compensation in Blind Second Language Learners” (main applicant/project leader), grant no. 2007-1679, VR/Swedish Research Council (co-applicant: H. Smeds).
• 2006-2008: “The Role of Age and Language Aptitude for High-level L2 Proficiency” (project leader), sub-project within the research program “High-level Second Language Use”, 2006-2012, grant no. M2005-0459, RJ/Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (program coordinator: K. Hyltenstam).
• 2005-2007: “First Language Attrition in Advanced Second Language Speakers” (main applicant/project leader), grant no. 421-2004-1975, VR/Swedish Research Council (co-applicants: K. Hyltenstam, E. Bylund).
• 2000-2002: “Age of Onset and Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition” (co-applicant), grant no. 1999-0383:01, RJ/Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (main applicant/project leader: K. Hyltenstam).
• 1994-1996: “Age of Onset and Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition”, internally funded, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University (project leader: K. Hyltenstam)
• 1990-1995: Research assistant in numerous research projects on bilingual development, second language acquisition and third language acquisition, Department of Linguistics and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, under the leaderships of professor Björn Hammarberg, professor Kenneth Hyltenstam, and professor Åke Viberg.

Doctoral research

• 1996-2001: “Acquiring L2 Syllable Margins. Studies on the Simplification of Onsets and Codas in Interlanguage Phonology.” (supervisor: B. Hammarberg)