In order to determine whether there is a “universal” olfactory-semantic space, this project investigates semantic differences and similarities between vocabularies used to describe odors in culturally diverse languages.

The aim of the project is a critical edition of the entire Old Swedish text corpus of Birgitta’s (1303–1373) texts, both her revelations and other shorter texts. An additional goal is to provide transcriptions of all manuscripts including fragmentary material.

The evolution within the information society has reshaped learning, offering benefits such as improved learner motivation and learner autonomy. Therefore, teachers must adapt to evolving technology trends. This PhD thesis examines the potential of text-chat mediated dynamic assessment for language development.

The project aims to deepen our understanding of the complex tasks that civic communication has in the transformation to a more sustainable society. The studies included utilize tools from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis to explore the role of language in societal change, and, more specifically, the role of linguistic messages in human action.

More and more people (both private individuals and scientists) see animals as subjects rather than objects. Pets are often viewed as family members, and we spend time trying to understand them and make them understand us. But how does communication between and within species work? This is something that linguistics is just beginning to explore.

Reading development in newly arrived high school students addresses a well-defined educational need: the automatization of decoding in second language learner reading. Decoding is critical for comprehension and therefore for learning.

The purpose of the research project is to increase knowledge about the development and use of connection in written production among adult learners of Swedish at beginner level.

Cross-linguistic differences between Swedish and Spanish in the domain of causation and its impact on monolingual-bilingual witness memory.Spanish monolinguals, and Swedish-Spanish bilinguals.

DEPICT investigates how depiction supports and enhances multilingual communication involving Norwegian sign language. It includes six unique projects that touch on the many different language environments where Norwegian sign language is used. DEPICT received 12 million NKR in funding from the Norwegian Research council.

With massive amounts of personal data being generated, privacy has become a great challenge. This project studies how machine learning can be used for sharing language models without risking to share information that may identify individuals.

Are you interested in breaking historical ciphers? Check out our project aiming at the automatic analysis and decipherment of historical secret writings.

How do L2 speakers' interactions shape their evolving grammar? This project explores how changes in interactional practices influence grammar-for-interaction over time. Analyzing 80 hours of L2 French conversations, we reveal the role of linguistic resources in developing interactional competence, offering fresh insights into SLA dynamics.

The purpose of the DIDI project is to determine the role of distributional learning (DL) for speech sound category formation in infants.

My dissertation project investigates Ditransitive Verb-Particle Construction (Ditr. VPC) in modern Swedish from a constructional-grammatical perspective.

This project investigates drama-based language teaching in Swedish as a Second Language from a multimodal and interactional perspective.

English Medium Instruction in Academic Lectures: A cross-cultural exchange of student and teacher perspectives on in-class and online education.

The amount of teaching and learning at universities that occurs in second language (L2) English continues to increase rapidly. This situation leads to classrooms where students and teachers have varying levels of English proficiency.

The research school FRAM was conducted during the period of 2012-2015. The purpose was to allow already active teachers to immerse themselves in various issues related to language learning, language teaching and linguistic assessment.

Electronic health records are full of important information about diagnoses and treatments of patients. Sharing this information in a federated health data network, across hospitals in the Nordic countries, will improve the quality of health care.

In this project, we document Gawarbati, the little documented language of a vulnerable community in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. The aim is to compile an annotated audio and video corpus and a lexical database, to serve as a lasting record.

This study aims to fill this knowledge gap by examining two groups of second language users (L2 users) in relatively favorable psycho-social circumstances.

The aim of this project is to enable the practical use of methods for de-identification of clinical free text written in Swedish. The HB Deid tool will be tested on textual patient data from Region Stockholm and not only in a laboratory environment at Stockholm University.

Interaction and Variation in Pluricentric Languages – Communicative Patterns in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish is a research programme by partners Stockholm University, University of Helsinki , University of Turku and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Gothenburg.

Speech-to-text interpreting for people with a hearing loss is today done by keyboard printing in Sweden. The project aims at raising production availability be developing speech technology for respeaking in Swedish.

This project aims to lay the foundation for studying cognitive processes in interpreting dialogues. The research questions concern the nature of the interpreter’s cognitive resources, more specifically, the function of the monitoring processes as compared to other types of interpreting and the strategies applied to cope with cognitive load.

This phd-project is about style and more spefic the authorial style of the swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

This PhD project investigates how knowing and closely related concepts - like understanding and getting to know - are expressed in the languages of the world.

L1 talkers’ adaptation to L2 speech. Computational and experimental approaches to vowel perception. This project investigates how the speech perception system deals with the fact that we all differ in our pronunciation.

Due to recent advances in ancient genetics, a new picture of prehistory is emerging. In the LAMP project we cast light on the aspects of prehistoric peoples that make them human: their languages and beliefs.

In my research I focus on corpus linguistics and discourse analysis of linguistic power structures, especially linguistic othering, in the Czech language.

The project systematically compared languages spoken in this distinctive and linguistically diverse region. One tangible outcome of the project is the online database Hindu Kush Areal Typology.

Speakers make use of intonation in order to highlight the most important part of an utterance (its focus) and listeners rely on it in order to comprehend the message. In this project we study how Swedish kindergarten children develop the skill to produce and to interpret focus intonation, be means of, among others, eye-tracking experiments.

This project explores linguistic and institutional dynamics in multilingual workplaces, examining interactional practices and identity construction. Using audio/video data, it focuses on backstage talk, leadership, and socio-technical practices in manager-employee meetings, employing EMCA, MCA, and socio-technical methods.

This project investigates empathy arising from emotional voices, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), galvanic skin response (GSR) and information about the participants' own experiences.

Machine translation and viewer comprehension and experience: a reception study of machine translated and post-edited interlingual subtitles’ effect on viewer comprehension and experience.

Marie Franzos (1870–1941): Independent, committed, successful. Translator, agent and cultural mediator of Swedish literature in German around 1900.

The goal of the MADS project is to create a european master’s programme in applied deaf studies (MADS).

Internationellt samarbete 2021-2022 - STINT

This project investigates migrants’ experiences of language education and language learning from a longitudinal perspective.

The interdisciplinary project brings together ideas and methods from linguistics, complex systems, machine learning, biology, and cultural evolution to seek answers to one of the big questions about humans.

The purpose of this project is to develop work processes and teaching methods where students learn from an early age to create multimodal texts. The work is carried out with inspiration from models and ideas taken from research and proven experience.

DigPhil is a cutting-edge doctoral research environment that combines the study of historical languages and their varieties with advancements in language technology.

This project concerns discourses on Swedish national identity in contemporary Sweden.

This one-year project focuses on the notes students take while listening to academic content in English. It examines notetaking samples as well as reported habits and perspectives related to notetaking.

The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system.

The project focuses on critical language awareness in a preparatory class with recently arrived students in secondary school.

This project investigates minority language education in two parallel educational settings in Sweden: mother tongue tuition (MTT), which forms part of the national curriculum, and the teaching of language and culture in complementary schools, organized by local communities.

Perhaps no other concept has so drastically altered the nature of contemporary public debate as that of 'political correctness', or 'PC' for short.

Enregistering Swedish and Swedishness at a Stockholm High School.

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.

Professional Communication and Digital Media. Complexity, Mobility and Multilingualism in the Global Workplace. The project studies communication in commercial enterprises, with a focus on digital media, multilingualism and internal communication.

How did communication specialists in Swedish municipalities work during the covid-19-pandemic? What did they learn that could be of use in future crisis?

This study investigates students’ listening comprehension in university lectures where English is the language of instruction (EMI).

In this research project, we examine the significance of accommodated language education for adults in municipal adult education and folk high school, with a particular focus on Swedish language learning.

SEMLA is a research school for teacher educators with a focus on language education. The theme is Swedish and English in a multilingual perspective.

The objective of the SWE-QUEST project is to develop a demo system that, given a text, automatically generates multiple-choice reading comprehension questions on the text.

Empower Your Text Analysis: Annotate and Analyze Swedish and English Texts with SWEGRAM

The Samsyn project is based on close cooperation between the research group Intensivsvenska and the Swedish National Agency for Education (Developing the introductory programs at upper secondary school).

In the process of expanding its activities in Sweden, from having worked primarily with influence and impact, to offering wealth fare services of education, employment and healthcare, the organisation Save the Children Sweden will need an increased awareness of how it frames its undertakings as well as of what stories it tells.

This project investigates the prosodic phenomenon stød in Danish. The project consists of three studies with nonce words – two production studies and one perception study. The three studies focus on either stød in relation to the position of the stressed syllable, syllabic structure or morphological context.

SALVE want to increase the understanding of the English vocabulary knowledge of secondary school students and we hope that the outcomes of the project can have practical implications for the teaching, learning and assessment of L2 English.

The projects aim is to make Swedish runestones accessible to the public by creating an application that shows which runestones are near the user. The user will receive reliable and up-to-date information on each stone's location, condition, reading, interpretation and dating.

The second part of a larger project on Swedish as a second language in suburban schools. The sub-study draws from fieldwork in a linguistically diverse primary school with a large proportion of newly arrived students.

The project focusses on syndetic pairs, i.e. coordinating constructions where two words of the same part of speech are placed on an identical level of syntactic hierarchy.

The initial aim of the project was to develop a research and teaching collaboration between Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden), Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Mother tongue education is a hotly debated, politicised scapegoat for some and a valued opportunity for others. Why are there such strong competing attitudes towards a school subject? This research examines how the organisation of mother tongue education is both a product of, and contributer to, shifting ideologies of language in Sweden.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, cultural mediators and institutions of power in transnational flows. Flemish author Bart Moeyart in Swedish translation.

This compilation thesis engages with the language practices and processes entangled with the internationalisation of Swedish university life.

The project ”The language café as a social venue and a space”for language training offers insights into the support provided by the civil society to the integration of adults, particularly in terms of offering non-formal, social settings for language practicing.

The aim of the project is to investigate what can happen when a school changes from a monolingual to a multilingual episteme and recognizes all languages as resources for learning, or epistemic resources. It explores the ways in which 10- to 14-year-olds in primary schools use their multilingual repertoires to forge new ways of living and learning together.

This project is trying to gain a deeper understanding in how students can be supported in their meaning-making when they learn about scientific phenomena, such as power and counterforce. How can students, based on their everyday experiences, gain knowledge about this in a way that makes sense?

The diachronic development of the voice system in Baltic, Slavic, and Germanic branches from a migrational perspective.

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has forced millions of people to flee their homes and seek safety in neighboring countries, not least in the Nordic Region. This postdoctoral project investigates the lived experiences of language among those Ukrainians who have fled to Sweden since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.

Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden

In this project we investigate how visual resources are used in language education. We focus on education in Swedish for immigrants for adults, adult education for the deaf and hard of hearing, and Komvux as special education.

I am editing a volume on linguistic standards used in the media of pluricentric language areas.

In the citizen science project “What do the school walls say” teachers and students will help scholars to investigate how the school system’s democratic mission is reflected in the signs, notes and messages on classroom walls, in corridors and other public spaces of schools.

My Research investigates prefixation and compounds in Russian political media discourse 2012–2020 within the framework of corpus-assisted discourse studies.

An ”Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project”.