Director

Prof. of Psycholinguistics, Chair of Lund University Humanities Lab, and Huminfra. I study acquisition and processing in L2/multilingual speakers, esp. semantics, discourse, and gestures. I lead the research programme Transdiciplinary Approaches to Learning, Acquisition, Multilingualism (TEAM), and the network Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Teaching (LAMINATE). I am President of the International Society for Gesture Studies.

I headed The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (w. P. Indefrey) 2003-2009, and co-founded the Nijmegen Gesture Centre (w. A. Özyürek). I was a Wallenberg Scholar with the project Embodied bilingualism. My editorial work includes work for Language Learning; Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics; Language, Interaction & Acquisition;Frontiers in Psychology; and Gesture. I was Vice-Pres. of the European Second Language Association 2000-07, and I received its Distinguished Scholar Award in 2019.