Multilingual language learning and cognitive linguistics

Headed by Prof. Raphael Berthele this research group investigates topics in the following fields:

• Transfer in multilingual language learning
• Bilingualism, multilingualism and literacy
• Receptive Multilingualism, intercomprehension
• Variationist typology of languages and dialects in contact
• Spatial reference in language

Most of its research draws on quantitative methods and on usage-based conceptions of language.

• Current research projects

   

  • Structure informationnelle chez les locuteurs bilingues : Influences interlinguistiques et dominance langagière

  • The influence of Standard and substandard Dutch on gender assignment in L2 German 
  • Productions écrites d’enfants issus de la migration (funded by the Research Center on Multilingualism)  
• Team

  Prof. Raphael Berthele 

  Dr Amelia Lambelet 

  Dr Jan Vanhove 

  Dr des Ladina Stocker 

  Ass.-dipl. Audrey Bonvin 

  Isabelle Udry 

  Giulia Berchio (FN)