A CLARIN Resource Family for Sign Languages
Research projectThe goal of this project was to establish a Clarin Resource Family (CRF) for Sign Languages (SL).
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A dialogue-based theory of evidentiality
Research projectHow do we claim knowledge in everyday talk? This project investigates the linguistic category of evidentiality and how it is used in spoken language. The project focuses on data from indigenous languages of the Americas.
A multidimensional investigation of fine phonetic variation in child speech
Research projectThis project examines Swedish children's speech development with a special focus on the acoustic properties of fricatives.
CIV - Communicative Individual Variance in Young Adulthood
Research projectBeing able to communicate face-to-face with another person requires skills that go beyond core language abilities. In dialog comprehension, we routinely make inferences beyond the literal meaning of utterances.
CIVung - Behavioral and neural correlates of pragmatic development during adolescence
Research projectPragmatics, a higher level of language ability, is essential for understanding and interpreting meaning and intention in communication with others.
Decipherment of Historical Manuscripts
Research projectAre you interested in breaking historical ciphers? Check out our project aiming at the automatic analysis and decipherment of historical secret writings.
DESCRYPT – Echoes of History: Analysis and Decipherment of Historical Writings
Research projectThis project explores innovative methods for analyzing historical texts written in rare, non-standard, or undeciphered writing systems.
Development and perception of children's voices before puberty
Research projectIn this project, we explore how acoustic properties of children's voices affect how adult listeners perceive them as girls or boys.
Distributional learning: Domain-specificity and the impact of social cues (DIDI)
Research projectThe purpose of the DIDI project is to determine the role of distributional learning (DL) for speech sound category formation in infants.
Edusign & Signedu
Research projectEdusign & Signedu is a European collaborative project that aims to increase society's awareness of deaf-related issues and create opportunities for more countries to train sign language interpreters.
From speech to sign – learning Swedish Sign Language as a second language
Research projectWhat happens when adults learn sign language as a second language? This project examined second language learning of languages expressed in a different modality than the speaker's first language.
Gawarbati: Documenting a vulnerable linguistic community in the Hindu Kush
Research projectIn 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.
Gaze in conversation
Research projectEye contact is very important in conversation. We make and break eye contact with our interlocutors. According to observations, we seek the other person’s gaze when we want to pass the word or have confirmation, but there are often no statistics on how common such behaviors are and when they occur.
Innovating methods in signed language corpus linguistics: a Nordic approach (NSLCN)
Research projectThe purpose of this project is to form a network of Nordic signed language (SL) researchers. The project includes Swedish sign language, Norwegian sign language and the two sign languages in Finland.
INVENT – on Children's Language Skills at School Entry
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Know – a cross-linguistic investigation
Research projectThis PhD project investigates how knowing and closely related concepts - like understanding and getting to know - are expressed in the languages of the world.
Language contact and relatedness in the Hindu Kush region
Research projectThe 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.
Learning First Words (L3WO)
Research projectThis project investigates the effect of hyperarticulation on infant word-recognition, word-segmentation and word-learning (L3WO)
Learning tones: The influence of pitch accent language experience on lexical tone perception (LETO)
Research projectThe LETO project investigates how infants' experience of language tones is affected by the language environment. The project is part of an international research collaboration on how infants learn to distinguish relevant tone differences.
Listening to other's emotions. Neural representations of emphaty arising from emotional voices
Research projectThis project investigates empathy arising from emotional voices, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), galvanic skin response (GSR) and information about the participants' own experiences.
