Multilingual child language acquisition

Our research focuses on multilingual language development in preschool and school-age children, how language is learned, mastered and used. We investigate language structure, linguistic variation and language con-tact in immigrant and heritage settings, language policy and language attitudes, developmental language disorder, as well as relationships be-tween language development and the linguistic environment that child-ren grow up in.

Our current research projects are:

• BiLI-TAS (Bilingual development and language impairment in Turkish-speaking and Arabic-speaking children in Sweden) Home language development and majority language develop-ment in Turkish- and Arabic-speaking children aged 4 to 10 years in Sweden
• LINC (Linguistic Integration of Refugee Children and their Families) Linguistic integration of Ukrainian refugee children and their families in the Nordic-Baltic region
• MAIN (Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives) Children’s development of narrative production and comprehension skills around the world