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Marianne Gullberg is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at Lund University, where she serves as Director of the Lund University Humanities Lab and Huminfra, Sweden's national infrastructure for digital and experimental humanities research. Her work integrates second language acquisition, bilingualism, and gesture studies, focusing on semantic and discourse processing in multilingual contexts.
- Research Leadership: She leads the TEAM program on transdisciplinary approaches to multilingualism and co-founded the LAMiNATE network for language acquisition and teaching.
- Scientific Contributions: Known for pioneering research on speech-gesture integration in bilinguals, she co-established the Nijmegen Gesture Centre and directed the Max Planck Institute's Dynamics of Multilingual Processing group (2003-2009).
- Honors: Recipient of the 2019 European Second Language Association Distinguished Scholar Award, 2019 Swenson Prize, and 2014 Rausing Prize.
- Leadership Roles: President of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Vice-President of EuroSLA (2003-2007), and Non-resident Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies.
- Academic Service: Former Associate Editor for Language Learning (2009-2014), Frontiers in Psychology, and Gesture (2000-2017).
Key Research Themes include embodied cognition in language learning, multimodal communication, and cognitive-linguistic interactions in multilingual speakers. Her recent publications emphasize methodological innovations (e.g., smartphone-based tracking via the LANG-TRACK-APP) and comparative studies of language exposure in migration vs. study abroad contexts.
- Scientific Awards:
- European Second Language Association Distinguished Scholar Award (2019)
- Swenson Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences (2019)
- Rausing Prize in Humanities (2014)
- Eva and Lars Gårding's Prize in Linguistics (2010)
Infrastructure Development: As Director of Huminfra, she coordinates national digital humanities resources. Her editorial work spans top journals like Language Learning and Frontiers in Psychology.
