جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Mari Johanne Wikhaug Andersenمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Multilingualism in Vocational Education
• Norwegian as a Second Language
• Educational Policy and Language Planning
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Mari Johanne Wikhaug Andersen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Language, Literature and Culture, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA). Her academic work focuses on multilingualism in vocational education, Norwegian as a second language, and teacher agency within educational policy frameworks. She holds a master's degree (2014) and recently completed a doctoral project (2024) exploring multilingualism in Norwegian vocational classrooms through linguistic ethnography. Her research integrates sociolinguistic theory with practical classroom dynamics, addressing challenges such as anglonormativity, monolingual policy constraints, and teacher-student interactions in linguistically diverse settings. Key areas include curriculum implementation in vocational education, language policy enactment, and strategies for supporting multilingual learners in technical programs like hairdressing and mechanics. Andersen has published extensively on teacher perspectives, policy gaps, and pedagogical innovations in multilingual vocational contexts. Recent work emphasizes the role of vocational teachers as policy actors negotiating between national language mandates and classroom realities. Her findings highlight systemic barriers to multilingual inclusivity and propose actionable frameworks for enhancing teacher agency in diverse classrooms. Teaching responsibilities include courses on second language pedagogy, multilingualism in education, and Norwegian for vocational educators at bachelor's and master's levels. She actively supervises master's students in applied linguistics and teacher education programs.

Lisa Gustavssonمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Early language acquisition
• Speech processing
• Speech production
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Lisa Gustavsson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University, where she conducts cutting-edge research on early language acquisition and forensic phonetics. She is affiliated with the Stockholm Babylab, a research group dedicated to studying infant language development through multiple parallel projects and international collaborations. Her research interests focus on early language acquisition, specifically examining speech processing, speech production, and communicative interaction in infants, with particular attention to the acoustic characteristics of speech signals. She also investigates forensic phonetics, exploring speaker identification and profiling techniques for forensic investigations, and how speaker recognition relates to fundamental phonetic processes. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in understanding how infants acquire language. Analyzing her recent publications reveals consistent themes in infant language development research. Her work demonstrates a strong focus on how hyperarticulation in child-directed speech affects language learning, the development of tone perception across different language environments, and the role of social and emotional factors in language acquisition. Her research spans multiple methodologies including behavioral experiments, cross-linguistic comparisons, and neuroscientific approaches to understanding speech processing. Gustavsson leads several significant research projects including Learning First Words (L3WO), which investigates hyperarticulation's effect on infant word recognition; The Effect of Hyperarticulation on Early Language Development (HELD); Distributional Learning: Domain-specificity and the impact of social cues (DIDI); Learning Tones: The influence of pitch accent language experience on lexical tone perception (LETO); Parent Affect in Language Learning (PALL); SoundStart; and the CAPSL-project on statistical learning and auditory predictability. As part of the Stockholm Babylab, Gustavsson works within a collaborative research environment that employs multimodal approaches to study language acquisition longitudinally through parent-child interactions. Her work contributes significantly to our understanding of the complex processes involved in how infants learn language, with implications for both theoretical linguistics and practical applications in speech therapy and language education.

Florian Jaegerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Science
• Linguistics
• Speech Perception
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Florian Jaeger is a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science at the University of Rochester, affiliated with the School of Arts & Sciences. He holds a PhD from Stanford University (2006). His research focuses on computational models of human speech perception and production, adaptive language processing, Bayesian inference, and advanced statistical methods for analyzing linguistic data. Key areas include the integration of contextual cues, normalization in speech perception, and the interplay between predictability and phonological patterns. Education: PhD, Stanford University, 2006 Research interests span cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience, with a focus on how listeners adapt to unfamiliar accents, maintain perceptual information, and process language incrementally. He explores theoretical frameworks like Bayesian models to explain language comprehension and production. His work bridges experimental psycholinguistics and computational modeling, addressing topics such as sociolinguistic perception, speech variability, and language learning across the lifespan. His articles frequently examine mechanisms of speech perception adaptation, normalization accounts, and cross-linguistic comparisons (e.g., Central Swedish vowel spaces). Notable contributions include studies on error-driven adaptation in reading, maintenance of subcategorical speech information, and the role of entropy in sentence processing. Jaeger’s methods emphasize rigorous statistical analysis (GLMMs, GAMMs) to dissect complex linguistic phenomena. He leads research on language production efficiency, linking linguistic patterns to communicative goals, and investigates how prior experience shapes perception. His lab addresses questions like how listeners infer talker-specific or general linguistic patterns and how these processes constrain language evolution. No scientific awards are listed here, but his impactful contributions are evident in his extensive publication record.

Silke Unverzagtمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Historical Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Register Variation
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Silke Unverzagt is a researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, focusing on register emergence and change in Germanic languages. She contributes to Project B04, investigating variation in writings by Martin Luther and Johannes Bretke. Her work emphasizes historical sociolinguistics, particularly in Old High German and Old Swedish texts. Her research involves creating and analyzing the Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo), a comparative corpus of historical registers. This includes Notker III's Old High German Psalms and Birgitta of Sweden's Old Swedish Revelations, annotated for sociolinguistic and functional parameters. Unverzagt's publications address intra-writer variation, corpus design, and the impact of social roles on language use. She collaborates with researchers like Phil Beier and Gohar Schnelle, focusing on methodological frameworks for historical linguistic analysis. No scientific awards are listed, but her work highlights contributions to digital humanities and historical corpus linguistics. She has not listed advisees or grants in the provided texts.

Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayiمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Migration and Health
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Global Public Health
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi is a Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Sweden. She holds an MD from Kinshasa University (DRC), an MPH and PhD in Public Health from Umeå University. Her work focuses on migration and health, sexual/reproductive health rights (SRHR), and mixed-methods research in health services. She serves as contact person for the International Mukwege Chair. Research interests emphasize global SRHR equity, migrants' healthcare access, and intersectional health disparities. She actively contributes to the Global Society on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health (GLOCOMER) and the Swedish platform for global SRHR issues. Recent studies address sexual violence among migrants in Sweden, HIV/STI prevention gaps, and integration challenges faced by migrant populations. Her publications (2024-2014) highlight themes like sexual violence prevalence among migrants, discrimination impacts on health outcomes, and healthcare accessibility barriers. Research projects include studies on SRHR document accessibility for youth migrants and HIV patients' social integration experiences. She collaborates with institutions like Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden) on migration-related health policy reports. No scientific awards explicitly mentioned, but her work demonstrates significant contributions to marginalized populations' health equity. Advising records and grant specifics are not detailed in the provided texts.

Kristina Engwallمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Social Work
• Disability Studies
• Child Welfare
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Kristina Engwall is a Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of Social Work, with a dual background in history and social work. She transitioned from a decade-long research career at the Institute for Future Studies (2001-2010) to leadership roles at R&D Södertörn (2008-2020) before joining Uppsala University in 2020. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary social policy, focusing on marginalized groups. Current position: Senior Lecturer in Social Work Key affiliations: Uppsala University, R&D Södertörn, Forte research council Research Focus: Engwall specializes in disability studies, child welfare, and gender research. Her ongoing Forte-funded projects examine: Elderly care conflicts for intellectually disabled individuals Digital inclusion post-COVID Critical perspectives on the IBIC assessment model Child participation in foster care matching She has led major studies on: Swedish child welfare practices for disabled children Co-living arrangements for parents with disabled adult children Parent carer support systems Publications: Over 25 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books addressing disability history, foster care dynamics, and gender studies. Notable works include Utanförskapets historia and Frivillig barnlöshet . Collaborations: Works with scholars like Ann-Sofie Bergman, Gunnel Andersson, and Lill Hultman across Sweden's top universities. Secured multiple Forte grants for disability and child welfare research.

• Historical Linguistics
• Philology
• Legal History
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Charlotte Busing is a Lecturer in Swedish as a second language at the Department of Nordic Languages, Uppsala University. She has been teaching Basic Swedish courses since 2009 and served as course administrator and coordinator for Basic Swedish in spring 2011. Her academic qualifications include: Licentiate in Nordic Languages, Uppsala University (2009) Dr. Busing's research focuses on Historical Linguistics and Philology , specializing in textual analysis of 16th century Swedish district court documents. Her work examines legal references to national laws and civilian document usage within judicial settings, bridging Legal History and Nordic Philology during Sweden's early modern period. Publication trends reveal consistent interdisciplinary methodology combining philological analysis with legal-historical inquiry, primarily centered on Dalarna's court records from 1544-1559. Both major works investigate how written documents functioned within judicial frameworks before standardized legal codification. She has instructed courses including Swedish as a second language B ("Bilingualism and linguistic variation"), Nordic languages A ("Language and society"), and foundational Basic Swedish programs since 2009.

Marion Kwiatkowskiمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Languages
• Swedish Language
• Sociolinguistics
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Marion Kwiatkowski is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She specializes in sociolinguistic studies focusing on language, identity, and nationality among youth in multilingual Finland. Her work examines dialectal variation, integration, and the role of Swedish as a minority language. Research Interests: Sociolinguistic analysis of transcultural youth identities Language variation and change in multilingual contexts Migration and its impact on Finland-Swedish dialects Multiliteracies and digitalization in language use Her recent publications highlight linguistic identity construction in rural Finland and dialectal vitality through multicultural youth. Notable projects include 'Modersmål och färders land – ungas tankar om språk, identitet och nationalitet i studentuppsatser' (2020–2025), funded by the Stiftelsen för utbildning och kultur på svenska i Finland sr. She actively participates in conferences on mobility, multilingualism, and European identities.

Luke Adamsonمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Syntax
• Morphology
• Grammatical Gender
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Luke Adamson is a tenure-track Researcher in Research Area 3 'Syntax and Lexicon' at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. Previously, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University (2020–2022) and served as Lecturer at Rutgers University (2022–2023). He earned his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (2019) and holds dual degrees from Oberlin College: a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance (2010–2014). His research focuses on nominal features, grammatical gender, and syntactic modularity, with notable projects exploring gender locality hypotheses, coordination resolution in three-gendered languages, and suppletion phenomena. Collaborators include prominent linguists such as Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University), and Stanislao Zompì (Universität Potsdam). Key contributions include work on gender assignment constraints in languages like Greek, Swedish, and Lithuanian, as well as syntactic interfaces in Jarawara and Italian. Recent presentations include invited talks at the University of Geneva (June 2025), Yale University (October 2024), and the Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (December 2024). He co-edits Linguistic Inquiry Squibs & Discussion and organizes the ZAS Brown Bag Lunches. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. Adamson’s academic networks span formal linguistics and typological studies, with ongoing projects addressing politeness pronouns in Romance languages, emotive predicates in clausal complements, and allosemy in Greek gender systems.

• Phonetics
• Estonian Intonation
• Prosody
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Eva Liina Asu-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Phonetics at the University of Tartu's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics (0.80 position), and an Associate Professor of Swedish Language at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures (0.20 position). She has been affiliated with the University of Tartu since 1995, holding various academic positions including Lecturer, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, and now Associate Professor. She also served as Head of Department at the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures from 2021 to 2024. Dr. Asu-Garcia earned her Doctoral degree in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge in 2004, with her dissertation titled 'The Phonetics and Phonology of Estonian Intonation,' supervised by Prof. Francis Nolan. Prior to this, she completed an M. Phil in English and Applied Linguistics (1996-1997) and a B.A. in English Language and Literature (1989-1995) from Tartu University. Her research primarily focuses on phonetics, with special emphasis on Estonian intonation, prosody, and speech production. She investigates the acoustic and articulatory properties of Estonian quantity distinctions, intonation patterns in various discourse contexts, and cross-linguistic aspects of phonetics, particularly in relation to Swedish and Spanish language learners. Her work often combines experimental methods with theoretical linguistics to understand how prosody functions in communication. She has published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings, with recent work examining multimodal aspects of speech, cross-cultural perception of vocalizations, and the documentation of endangered language varieties. Dr. Asu-Garcia has received numerous awards and scholarships throughout her career, including the Kordelin Foundation Scholarship (2016, 2006), Valter Niilus award (2010), and several Cambridge Overseas Trust scholarships. She is an active member of multiple professional organizations including the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), International Phonetics Association (IPA), and the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). She currently supervises PhD student Katrin Leppik (researching Estonian vowel categories and quantity degrees in Spanish L1 speakers) and Master's student Vootele Valter (studying Ruhnu Swedish language clusivity). She has successfully supervised several other students to completion of their degrees. Dr. Asu-Garcia also leads research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Research and the Nordic Council of Ministers, focusing on multimodal analysis of spoken Estonian and documentation of Ruhnu Swedish dialect.

Måns Magnussonمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Bayesian Statistics
• Probabilistic Machine Learning
• Statistical Inference from Textual Data
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Måns Magnusson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, with affiliations at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköping University) and the Institute for Future Studies. His work bridges Bayesian statistics, probabilistic machine learning, and textual analysis, focusing on model evaluation, diagnostics, and inference algorithms. He contributes to computational social science and digital humanities through text-as-data methods. Research Themes: Bayesian inference, probabilistic machine learning, statistical inference from textual data Key Applications: Sociology, political science, law, education statistics, public health Current Projects: Improving probabilistic programming generalizability (Swedish Research Council grant), SWERIK research infrastructure (Riksbankens jubileumsfond) His recent publications emphasize text mining, model comparison, and legal data challenges. He has developed tools for national ID number validation, hate crime estimation, and parliamentary corpus construction. Notable awards include the Cramér Prize (2018), Statistician of the Year (2023), and membership in the Swedish Young Academy (2023) and ELLIS (2024). Scientific Contributions: Botten Ada Bayesian election model, 'loo' package for cross-validation Collaborative Work: AI4Research sabbatical (2024), Riksbankens jubileumsfond funding Industry Background: Statistician roles at Swedish Agency for Education, Crime Prevention, and Public Health

Erik Smitterbergمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Corpus Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• English Language History
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Erik Smitterberg is Professor of English Linguistics at Uppsala University, appointed in 2022 after serving as Senior Lecturer since 2014. His research employs corpus-based methodologies to investigate Late Modern English syntax, language evolution, and learner language phenomena. Educational background: PhD in English Linguistics, Uppsala University Docent in English, Uppsala University (2008) His core research focuses on Historical Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics , specializing in Late Modern English (c. 1700-1900) syntax. Key investigations include colloquialization (spread of spoken features into writing) and densification (expressing meaning with reduced linguistic material), analyzed through idiolect-based frameworks to resolve the 'stability paradox'. Additional expertise spans punctuation evolution, partitive constructions, multal quantifiers, and prescriptive norms in language learning. Recent publications (2020-2025) reveal persistent exploration of syntactic change in English genres, with growing emphasis on pedagogical applications of corpora and critical analysis of learner grammar prescriptions. His 2021 monograph reconciles theoretical predictions of language change with historical stability observations. Scientific recognition: Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities research fellowship (2009-2014) Professor Smitterberg supervises MA/PhD theses in historical linguistics and corpus methods. His research collaborations span international networks, notably with Peter Grund (University of Kansas) on conjunct usage and Merja Kytö on Late Modern English conferences. He maintains the Swedish-language blog 'Anglisten' and authored the learner-focused workbook 'Spotting the Error' (2007).

Angela Hoffmanمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Sociolinguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Language Contact
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Angela Hoffman serves as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of English within Uppsala University's Faculty of Languages. Her academic career centers on the sociolinguistic dynamics of Swedish-American communities, with emphasis on language contact phenomena and heritage language preservation. Education: PhD in English, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, 1999 MA in English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1988 BA in English Teaching, summa cum laude, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, 1984 Hoffman's research investigates language shift, language ideology, and postvernacularity—the process where languages gain symbolic value as daily usage declines—within Swedish heritage communities in America. She employs sociolinguistic fieldwork, archival analysis, and discourse studies of community cookbooks, immigrant letters, church records, and oral histories to examine how Swedish has evolved in U.S. contexts. Her work reveals how cultural artifacts maintain linguistic identity across generations despite language shift pressures. Her publication portfolio demonstrates consistent focus on historical sociolinguistics of immigrant communities, particularly through textual analysis of Swedish-American cultural production. Recent work shows increasing emphasis on educational contexts for heritage language transmission and the role of religious institutions in language maintenance. A strong interdisciplinary thread connects linguistic analysis with cultural anthropology and historical studies. Scientific Awards: Pedagogical Prize (Pedagogiska priset) from Uppsala University (2011) Distinguished Teacher (Excellent lärare) from The Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University (2014) Hoffman supervises MA thesis projects and has held significant administrative roles including Director of Doctoral Studies (two terms), Deputy Chair, and MA Program Coordinator. She currently serves on Faculty of Languages and Department of English boards. Her collaborative work includes co-editing Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas with Anita Auer and Joshua R. Brown, and comparative studies of language shift in Swedish-American congregations with Brown. These partnerships form the core of her ongoing research network focused on transnational heritage language communities. Her team-based approach integrates archival research with contemporary fieldwork, particularly examining how community cookbooks and religious records document linguistic transitions. Current projects explore the intersection of food culture, music, and language maintenance in postvernacular contexts.

• Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Speech Synthesis Evaluation
• Text Normalization
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Christina Tånnander is an Industry doctoral student and Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, collaborating with the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM). Her work focuses on advancing text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis for accessible media, producing spoken versions of textbooks and newspapers for individuals with reading difficulties such as dyslexia or low vision. Her research centers on TTS for long, information-rich texts, examining the relationship between written and spoken language. Key interests include neural TTS input representations (e.g., phonemic levels, pausing), text normalization, pronunciation generation, and evaluation methodologies for synthesized speech quality. She investigates how contextual framing and prosodic features impact listener perception in educational and journalistic content. Analysis of her publications (2013–2024) reveals consistent expertise in TTS evaluation using audience response systems, with recent emphasis (2023–2024) on neural prosody modeling, continuous phonological features, and English-accented Swedish synthesis. Her work bridges industrial application at MTM—where over 100 newspapers and 800 textbooks are annually processed—and academic innovation in speech technology.

Fatih Erbayمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Turkic Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Chagatai Literature
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Assoc. Prof. Fatih Erbay is a scholar of Turkic linguistics and historical texts affiliated with the Department of Old Turkish Language at Iğdır University. He holds a PhD from Selçuk University's Institute of Social Sciences (2003-2008), an MA in Turkish Language (2000-2003), and a BA in Turkish Language and Literature from Trakya University (1995-1999). His research focuses on Chagatai Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and historical Turkic dialectology, with particular emphasis on manuscript analysis, lexicography, and cultural transmission. Dr. Erbay has held administrative roles including Head of Department at Iğdır University and Selçuk University, and served as Bologna Coordinator and Erasmus Coordinator. He teaches advanced courses on Chagatai Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkological resources. His 20+ peer-reviewed articles examine topics ranging from Nasreddin Hoca folklore to missionary texts in East Turkistan, demonstrating expertise in both textual analysis and historical contextualization. His authored works include a critical edition of Emânî's Divan and studies on Eastern Turkic Kalila wa-Dimna translations. Research projects include analysis of W. Radloff's Turkic dialect dictionary. He advises graduate students on historical Turkic texts, with one completed master's thesis on Abdulkadir Talebani's poetry.