Marianne Gullberg

Marianne Gullberg is a Swedish psycholinguist specializing in second language acquisition, processing and the study of gesture.^[1]

Gullberg carried out her doctoral research at Lund University between 1993 and 1997. After short-term positions there and at Kristianstad University, she took up a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in 2000, where she was appointed Senior Research Scientist in 2003.^[1] In 2008 she became a tenured associate professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, retaining her research role at the Max Planck Institute and co-founding the Nijmegen Gesture Centre alongside Aslı Özyürek. In 2010 she was appointed Professor of Psycholinguistics and Director of the Humanities Lab at Lund University.^[1][2]

Gullberg is known for her research on language acquisition and gesture. Her early work reacted against the theory-driven structuralism of Swedish general linguistics at the time by seeking to investigate language use.^[2] Gullberg's research has called into question stereotypes about gesture usage across cultures, such as the idea that Italians use more gestures than speakers of other languages.^[2] In her work she has drawn on electromagnetic articulography and EEG methods alongside the traditional methods of the humanities, and aims to make a contribution to second language teaching.^[2]

Gullberg has been the recipient of several honours and awards. In June 2015 she was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,^[3][4] and in March 2019 she was awarded the academy's Ann-Kersti and Carl-Hakon Swenson Prize for humanities and social science research.^[5] She was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2017.^[1] In 2019 she was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the European Second Language Association, for whom she had previously served as vice-president.^[6]

• Gullberg, Marianne. 1998. Gesture as a communication strategy in second language discourse. A study of learners of French and Swedish. Lund: Lund University Press. ISBN 9789179665081
• Gullberg, Marianne. 2006. Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon). International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 44 (2), 103–124. doi:10.1515/IRAL.2006.004
• Gullberg, Marianne. 2006. Handling discourse: Gestures, reference tracking, and communication strategies in early L2. Language Learning 56 (1), 155–196. doi:10.1111/j.0023-8333.2006.00344.x
• Brown, Amanda and Marianne Gullberg. 2008. Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in L1-L2 encoding of manner in speech and gesture: A study of Japanese speakers of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30 (2), 225–251. doi:10.1017/S0272263108080327
• Roberts, Leah, Marianne Gullberg and Peter Indefrey. 2008. Online pronoun resolution in L2 discourse: L1 influence and general learner effects. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30 (3), 333–357. doi:10.1017/S0272263108080480

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