Bilingualism Matters opened in Tromsø, Norway, in June 2011, under the name “Flere språk til flere”. The branch is hosted by the University of Tromsø.
Branch aims
Flere språk til flere aims to provide support to families, teachers and other people affected by bilingualism in order to:
- Answer questions from parents and teachers about bilingualism
- Increase people’s knowledge about advantages of bilingualism
- Provide information about good strategies to promote bilingual language development
- Make research on bilingualism available to the public
- Act as a link between people in multilingual environments
Get in touch
Website: Flere språk til flere
Twitter: @flersprak
Facebook
The Tromso team
Dr. Yulia Rodina
Branch Director, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Yulia Rodina is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oslo.
Research interests - Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual); multilingualism and education; Norwegian, Russian, English.
Dr. Yulia RodinaBranch Director, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Prof. Marit Westergaard
Professor of Linguistics
Marit Westergaard is Professor of Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.
Reserach interests - first language acquisition, second/third language acquisition, bilingual language acquisition, comparative English and Norwegian syntax
Prof. Marit WestergaardProfessor of Linguistics
Prof. Merete Anderssen
Professor of Linguistics
Merete Anderssen is Professor of Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research Interests: Word order variation, language acquisition, bilingualism
Prof. Merete AnderssenProfessor of Linguistics
Prof. Øystein Vangsnes
Professor of Linguistics
Øystein Vangnes is Professor of Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research Interests - Grammar, syntax, morphology, syntactic variation, North Germanic languages and dialects, language variation, multilingualism, bidialectalism, language acquisition, cognitive development, language attitudes.
Prof. Øystein VangsnesProfessor of Linguistics
Prof. Kristine Bentzen
Professor of Linguistics
Kristine Bentzen is Professor of Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research interests - variation in the input of acquisition, acquisition of syntax, comparative syntax
Prof. Kristine BentzenProfessor of Linguistics
Olga Urek
Post-doctoral candidate
Olga Urek is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research interests - Phonology, Optimality Theory, phonological opacity, first language acquisition, Baltic languages.
Olga UrekPost-doctoral candidate
Natalia Mitrofanova
PhD Candidate in Linguistics
Natalia Mitrofanova is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research interests - language acquisition, child grammar, syntax and semantics of spatial expressions, typology, Sámi, Norwegian, Russian, Evenki
Natalia MitrofanovaPhD Candidate in Linguistics
Marta Velnić
PhD candidates in Linguistics
Marta Velnić is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research interests - First Language Acquisition, Variation in First Language Development, Acquisition of Grammatical Gender, Acquisition of Double Objects (in Croatian), Long and Short Adjectival form in Croatian.
Marta VelnićPhD candidates in Linguistics
Tammer Castro
PhD candidate in Linguistics
Tammer Castro is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) at the Arctic University of Norway.
Research interests - Language Acquisition, Language Attrition, Bidialectism, Syntax, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Psycholinguistics
Tammer CastroPhD candidate in Linguistics
