Rebecca Borg

About me

I started my doctoral studies in the fall term of 2022. I am mainly interested in predictive language processing and how the properties of one's mother tongue impact processing in a second language. I have, for example, investigated whether and to what extent first and second language speakers of Swedish can use morphological gender cues to anticipate nouns they have not actually encountered yet. In my current project, I am examining the extent to which lexical predictions are accompanied by predictions of actual word forms in Swedish. I use both behavioral and brain imaging methods in my research.

Previous education:

• 2021: MA in Linguistics with Specialization in Bilingualism at Stockholm University.
• 2018: BA in Nordic Languages at Tampere University.

Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

Predictive processing in Swedish as a second language

How do second language speakers process grammatical information? Can they predict the continuation of a sentence before it is actually finished? How do linguistics factors and individual properties of language learners create expectations of upcoming input? This project explores these questions with learners of Swedish as a second language.