Magdalena Wrembel (PhD, D. Litt) is a university professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and deputy head of Bilingualism Matters@Poznań. Her main research areas involve bilingualism and multilingualism, third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology as well as cross-linguistic influence in L3 phonological acquisition. She has co-organised a number of international conferences and has been actively involved in several research grants.
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Professor, D. Litt) is full professor and vice-rector for research of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She has published extensively (ca. 160 publications) on phonology, phonetics and language acquisition. In her works she has been pursuing and advocating the Natural Linguistic approach to language. She was a Senior Fulbright scholar (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) and visiting scholar at the University of Vienna.
Anna Balas (PhD, D. Litt) is a university professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She conducts research on speech perception and production in second and third language acquisition and she is especially interested in vowel systems. Anna promotes research-driven approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism in Bilingualism Matters@Poznań.
Jarosław Weckwerth (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University. His research interests include phonetics, sociolinguistics and the use of technology in the teaching of linguistics. He has written on various aspects of Polish and English phonetics and phonology, such as the spectral characteristics of Polish and English vowels, acquisition of L2 phonology, and pronunciation models in EFL.
Karolina Rataj (PhD) is an assistant professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and head of the Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. She is interested in language processing, especially in creativity, the role of executive functions in semantic processing, and semantic processing disorders. She examines the neurocognitive processes that underlie creative and novel figurative language comprehension.
Tristan Czarnecki-Verner (PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher in the CLIMAD project at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His research interests include obstruent sequences in Polish and across human languages. He uses acoustic, neuro-, and psycholinguistic techniques to assess how humans produce, perceive, and acquire consonant sequences. His long-term goal is to produce autodidactic tools to help learners acquire competence processing and producing articulatorily-complex sound sequences.
Krzysztof Hwaszcz (PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher in the ADIM project at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His main research areas involve syntax-semantics interface, mental lexicon, phonetics and phonology and syntax in the theoretical perspective. Krzysztof wrote his PhD dissertation on the processing of compound words and the organization of the mental lexicon. He is also associated with Wrocław University of Science and Technology in the CLARIN consortium.
Hanna Kędzierska (PhD) has been a post-doctoral researcher for the ADIM project at Adam Mickiewicz University since May 2022. Her main research interests include psycho- and neurolinguistics, multilingualism and figurative language processing. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the processing of foreign-accented speech, focusing on data obtained with the aid of event-related brain potentials technique.
Kamil Malarski (PhD) is a post-doctoral researcher for the ADIM project at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Kamil is trained in sociolinguistics, field linguistics, laboratory phonology and language acquisition. Multilingualism is his newest research interest. In our project, he investigates L3 Norwegian and L3 Polish speech. He tries to map the foreign-language accents with social and cultural parameters of the speakers.
Sylwiusz Żychliński (PhD) is an assistant professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University. His research areas mostly involve aspects of Polish-English comparative syntax, though recently he has started exploring topics related to the second / third language acquisition of syntax. He has also been interested in the phenomenon of gradient acceptability and how it relates to theories of syntax.
Nicole Rodríguez (PhD) was a post-doctoral researcher for the CLIMAD project at Adam Mickiewicz University (Oct 2021-May 2022). Her main interests are in bilingualism, second language acquisition, and heritage language phonology. Nicole’s dissertation project centred around the development of production and perception of lexical stress in bilingual children. Most of her research is conducted on bilinguals of varying proficiency and linguistic experience.
Anna Skałba (MA) is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests focus on bilingualism and multilingualism. She is especially interested in cross-linguistic influence in syntax and phonology, as well as in processes underlying language production and comprehension. She is writing my dissertation on the representation of syntactic constructions in the mind of French-English bilinguals.
Zuzanna Cal (MA) is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests involve multilingualism and third language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, cross-linguistic influence, as well as L1 drift and attrition. In her dissertation she investigates cross-linguistic influence in perception and production of stop consonants by trilingual speakers of Polish, English and Norwegian.
Justyna Gruszecka (MA) is PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include bilingualism, affective language processing, neurolinguistics, and human perception of artificial intelligence. In her dissertation she plans to investigate bilingual perceptions of emotion-laden language in the context of human-AI interactions.
Agnieszka Pludra (BA) is a master's student of computational linguistics at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, second and third language acquisition, and natural language processing. Most recently, Agnieszka has been examining the effectiveness of gesture-enhanced pronunciation training on the acquisition of L2 stress patterns.
Iryna Kravchuk (MA) is a PhD student in linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests focus on psycholinguistics, speech comprehension, and multilingualism. In her dissertation, she investigates the differences between the cognitive performance and accented speech comprehension of multilinguals with different language experiences.
Marit Westergaard (Professor) is Director of the AcqVA Aurora Center and the AcqVA Aurora Lab. Her work spans L1/L2/L3 and bilingual acquisition, heritage languages and language attrition, multilingualism, micro-variation, comparative syntax, and diachronic change, focusing on word order as well as various DP phenomena. She has published widely on all of these topics in leading journals in the field.
Yulia Rodina (PhD) is an associate professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests focus on first, second, and third language acquisition as well as multilingualism and language change. She has conducted research on Russian, Norwegian, English, and Bosnian using production, comprehension and processing techniques.
Natalia Mitrofanova (PhD) is a university lecturer at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests include first, second and third language acquisition, heritage languages, and language processing by monolinguals and multilinguals. In her research Natalia has used a variety of experimental paradigms ranging from acceptability judgements to self-paced reading and eye-tracking experiments.
Marta Velnić (PhD) completed her PhD at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway on the topic of Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language. She then transitioned to NTNU- Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Within ADIM she is working on the acquisition of genericity in L2 English and L3 Norwegian by native speakers of Polish.
Isabel Nadine Jensen (PhD) was a postdoctoral researcher at UiT the Arctic University of Norway (until December 2022). Her main interests are cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition, focusing on the acquisition of morphosyntax, second language acquisition and artificial language learning.
Chloe Castle (PhD) is a postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Chloe's research interests include multilingualism, language acquisition, heritage languages, and language change. She is interested in taking a combined psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approach to examining these research areas. Her current research as part of the ADIM project focuses on morphosyntactic crosslinguistic influence in L3 and Ln acquisition.
Anne Dahl (PhD) is associate professor of English linguistics at NTNU The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Anne’s research deals with various aspects of second and third language acquisition. In particular, she is interested in how languages influence each other in the multilingual mind, the role of age in language acquisition, and in the relationship between implicit and explicit learning.
Roumyana Slabakova (Professor) is the Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK and a research professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests are in second and multilingual acquisition of linguistic structure and meaning. She is the co-Editor of the journal Second Language Research and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Merete Anderssen (Professor) is a professor of linguistics at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests include first, second, third and multilingual acquisition, and language attrition/heritage languages. Merete has worked on a wide variety of linguistic phenomena, including DP structure and structures exhibiting word order variation.
Kjersti Listhaug (Professor) is an associate professor of French linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interests centre around second and third language acquisition. She is particularly interested in the acquisition of syntax and word order phenomena in L3 and in the acquisition of lexicon in multilingual speakers.
