Prof. Dr. Mechthild Albert
Languages, Romance studies
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences
Psycholinguistics, second language acquisition/bilingualism, gesture studies
Second language acquisition/bilingualism, Language and cognition, Speech-gesture integration, Processing, Semantics and discourse
The EUROSLA Distinguished Scholar Award 2019, the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), 2019
The Swenson Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2019
Elected member of the Academia Europaea, 2017
Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2015
Elected member of the Royal Society of Letters in Lund, 2014
Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2014
The Rausing Prize in Humanities, the Birgit Rausing Foundation, 2014
Elected member of the Royal Swedish Physiographic Society in Lund, 2011
Eva & Lars Gårding's Prize in Linguistics, 2010
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Alferink, I. & Gullberg, M. (2014). French-Dutch bilinguals do not maintain obligatory semantic distinctions: Evidence from placement verbs. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17, 22-37.
Andersson, A., Sayehli, S., & Gullberg, M. (2018). Language background affects word order processing in a second language online but not offline. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition.
Brown, A. & Gullberg, M. (2008). Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in L1-L2 encoding of manner in speech and gesture. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 225-251.
Graziano, M. & Gullberg, M. (2018). When speech stops, gesture stops: Evidence from developmental and crosslinguistic comparisons. Frontiers in Psychology (01 June, 2018). Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00879.
Gullberg, M. (2006). Handling discourse: Gestures, reference tracking, and communication strategies in early L2. Language Learning, 56, 155-196.
Gullberg, M. & Holmqvist, K. (2006). What speakers do and what addressees look at: Visual attention to gestures in human interaction live and on video. Pragmatics & Cognition, 14, 53-82.
Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2006). (Eds.) The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition. London: Blackwell.
Gullberg, M. & Kita, S. (2009). Attention to speech-accompanying gestures: Eye movements and information uptake. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 251-277.
Narasimhan, B. & Gullberg, M. (2011). The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: Evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch. Journal of Child Language, 38, 504-532.
Parafita Couto, M. C. & Gullberg, M. (2017) Code-switching within the noun phrase – Evidence from three corpora. International Journal of Bilingualism. Doi:10.1177/1367006917729543.
Veroude, K., Norris, D. G., Shumskaya, E., Gullberg, M. & Indefrey, P. (2010). Functional connectivity between brain regions involved in learning words of a new language. Brain and Language, 113, 21-27.
THE LANG-TRACK-APP: Studying exposure to and use of a new language using smartphone technology, Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2019 – 2021
Embodied bilingualism (Wallenberg Scholar grant), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2013 – 2017; Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2018 – 2022
Unravelling the multilingual mind (Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education), with Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2017 – 2021
Swedish word order processing in second language learners and native speakers: A psycholinguistic and neurocognitive approach. Swedish Research Council, 2011 – 2014
Culture, brain, learning (Wallenberg Network Initiative). Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2011 – 2016
Multilingualism through the lifespan: The effects of first exposure to an unknown language. Swiss National Science Foundation, 2011 – 2014
The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing. Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (with P. Indefrey), 2003 – 2008
Member of the Presidium of the Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, SE, 2018 – 2021
President of the Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, SE, 2019
Member of the Board of Directors and member of the Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities, the Wenner-Gren Foundations, SE, since 2018
Alternate Member of the Board of Directors and Member of the Committee for Research Infrastructure, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2014 – 2018
Member of the Governing Board of The Birgit Rausing Language Programme, Lund University, 2013 – 2022
Member of the Scientific Board Volkswagenstiftung Freigeist Fellowships, since 2013
Member of the Executive Board of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, 2010 – 2019
Journal Editor Language Learning (2009 – 2014; Wiley-Blackwell; Associate editor); Language, Interaction and Acquisition (since 2008; Benjamins; Editor); Gesture (2000 – 2017; Benjamins; Information editor), Frontiers in Psychology (since 2020; Associate editor)
Co-founder and Coordinator of the Nijmegen Gesture Centre (with A. Özyürek), 2003 – 2009
Vice-president of the European Second Language Association (Eurosla), 2003 – 2007. At the end of term, Co-opted Member of the Executive Committee, 2007 – 2011
Language in Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistcs and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, University of Basel
Digital Humanities Lab Denmark, Aarhus University
Advanced Studies on Language Complexity, Université de Lyon
Center for multilingualism in society across the lifespan, Oslo University
Center for Language and Brain, Colgate University
Lund University leadership and management training (by nomination), 2011 – 2013
Tool-kit Course of Cognitive Neuroscience F.C. Donders Centre of Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2003
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Languages, Romance studies
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
Social and behavioural sciences, Sociology, Social policy, Demography
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology