About

Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab


PhD student and test person in the lab, test person wearing a cap with sensors.Photo: Victor Kleive

We investigate the principles and mechanisms of human language processing and acquisition. Our primary focus is semantics and its relations to grammar, logic, perception and cognition. Our research involves studies of brain and behavior, typical and atypical development, linguistic theory, language technology and computer models.

The Lab houses modern experimental equipment for eye tracking, motion tracking, electroencephalography, optical imaging and social robotics. We arrange open days and on-site visits with presentations and demonstrations for the public. Contact us if you want to be notified about our dissemination events or if you want to book a visit.


News and events


· The LALP Lab is pleased to announce the international workshop Predictors of Reading on April 10-11, 2025. The Workshop is the final event under the RCN funded project EDULANG and will be preceded by a graduate student conference featuring talks by our successful graduates of the network from NTNU and UCONN.

· Guest talk on Language Breakdown in Child Neurodevelopmental Disorders, by Katarzyna Jednoróg (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Science), January 30, 2025

· Sånn former gjenstander språket vårt. Gjenstander påvirker språket og hvordan vi ser på verden. EU støtter forskning på feltet med 124 millioner kroner. Gemini 05.11.2024

· Mila Vulchanova and Valentin Vulchanov, with Linda Smith (Indiana University), Pamela Perniss (University of Cologne), and Frank Seifart (CNRS, Paris), in collaboration with Larissa Samuelson (University of East Anglia) and Caroline Larson (University of Missouri), have been awarded a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for the project SHAPE: The System of Shape Representations in Cognition, Development, and Across Languages

· International workshop: Computational Modeling in Neurolinguistics, June 10-11, 2024, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), Trondheim


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Research activity

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Publications Authors Journal Year
Participatory design of augmented reality games for word learning in autistic children: the parental perspective Shemy I. El, L. Jaccheri, M.N. Giannakos, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Entertainment Computing 2025
Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities M. Lumaca, P.E. Keller, G. Baggio, V. Pando-Naude, C.J. Bajada, M.A. Martinez, J.H. Hansen, A. Ravignani, N. Joe, P. Vuust, ...more authors Nature Communications 2024
Notational Variants and Cognition: The Case of Dependency Grammar R.M. Nefdt, G. Baggio ...more authors Erkenntnis 2024
The relationship between neural phase entrainment and statistical word-learning: A scoping review G.S. Sjuls, N.N. Harvei, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 2024
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals A. Sinkeviciute, J. Mayor, M. Vulchanova, N. Kartushina ...more authors Language Learning 2024
Mental rotation and language in autism spectrum disorder C. Larson, A. Bochynska, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Autism Research 2024
Insights into Oral and Written Competencies in Neurodevelopmental Disorders S. Melogno, M.A. Pinto, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Brain Sciences 2024
Editorial: Physical and medical conditions associated with autism M. Micai, D. Saldana, M. Vulchanova, V. Riva ...more authors Frontiers in Psychiatry 2024
Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention? L.S. Pathak, M. Vulchanova, P. Pathak, R.K. Mishra ...more authors Bilingualism 2024
Augmented reality-enhanced language learning for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic literature review Shemy I. El, L. Jaccheri, M.N. Giannakos, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Behaviour and Information Technology 2024
Plausibility and Early Theory in Linguistics and Cognitive Science G. Baggio, Santo A. De, N.A. Nunez ...more authors Computational Brain and Behavior 2024
Erratum: Author Correction: Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints (Nature human behaviour (2023) 7 12 (2099-2110)) K.R. Coventry, H.B. Gudde, H. Diessel, J. Collier, P. Guijarro-Fuentes, M. Vulchanova, V. Vulchanov, E. Todisco, M. Reile, M. Breunesse, ...more authors Nature human behaviour 2024
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints K.R. Coventry, H.B. Gudde, H. Diessel, J. Collier, P. Guijarro-Fuentes, M. Vulchanova, V. Vulchanov, E. Todisco, M. Reile, M. Breunesse, ...more authors Nature Human Behaviour 2023
Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous? J. Haukioja, J. Toorman, G. Baggio, J. Jylkka ...more authors Cognitive Science 2023
The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review R. Abreu, S. Postarnak, V. Vulchanov, G. Baggio, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Heliyon 2023
The association of cognitive abilities with language disorder in 8-year-old children: A population-based clinical sample F. Jin, S. Schjolberg, P. Eadie, R.B. Nes, Valand S. Barbo, E. Roysamb, M. Vulchanova ...more authors International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 2023
Enhancing the vocabulary learning skills of autistic children using augmented reality: a participatory design perspective Shemy I. El, A.L. Urrea, G. Erena-Guardia, D. Saldana, M. Vulchanova, M.N. Giannakos ...more authors ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 2023
High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right–left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions M. Lumaca, L. Bonetti, E. Brattico, G. Baggio, A. Ravignani, P. Vuust ...more authors Cerebral Cortex 2023
Word learning in ASD: the sensorimotor, the perceptual and the symbolic M. Vulchanova, V. Vulchanov, M. Allen ...more authors Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 2023
Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects M. Vulchanova, J. Collier, P. Guijarro-Fuentes, V. Vulchanov ...more authors International Journal of Bilingualism 2023
In the native speaker's eye: Online processing of anomalous learner syntax K.F. Soby, E. Milburn, L.B. Kristensen, V. Vulchanov, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Applied Psycholinguistics 2023
Theory of Mind in Autism: From a Primary Deficit to Just Mutual Misunderstanding? G. Erena-Guardia, M. Vulchanova, D. Saldana ...more authors Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning 2023
The interplay of computational complexity and memory load during quantifier verification H.S. Bremnes, J. Szymanik, G. Baggio ...more authors Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2023
Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification H.S. Bremnes, J. Szymanik, G. Baggio ...more authors Cognition 2022
Rethinking Figurative Language in Autism: What Evidence Can We Use for Interventions? M. Vulchanova, V. Vulchanov ...more authors Frontiers in Communication 2022
Morphosyntactic Skills Influence the Written Decoding Accuracy of Italian Children With and Without Developmental Dyslexia E. Casani, M. Vulchanova, A. Cardinaletti ...more authors Frontiers in Psychology 2022
Network Analysis of Human Brain Connectivity Reveals Neural Fingerprints of a Compositionality Bias in Signaling Systems M. Lumaca, P. Vuust, G. Baggio ...more authors Cerebral Cortex 2022
Editorial: The Notion of the Native Speaker Put to the Test: Recent Research Advances M. Vulchanova, V. Vulchanov, A. Sorace, C. Suarez-Gomez, P. Guijarro-Fuentes ...more authors Frontiers in Psychology 2022
You may point, but do not touch: Impact of gesture-types and cognition on language in typical and atypical development S. Ramos-Cabo, J. Acha, V. Vulchanov, M. Vulchanova ...more authors International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 2022
U-shaped Trajectories in an L2 context: Evidence from the acquisition of verb morphology S. Williams, P. Guijarro-Fuentes, M. Vulchanova ...more authors Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2022
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Spatial Communication and Ageing across Languages (SCALA), Marie Sklodowska-Curie-UKRI Doctoral Network, 2024-2028

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Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research, COST Action CA21131, 2022-2026

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Spatially Enhanced Learning Linked to STEM, EU Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN, 2021-2025

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EDULANG


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Excellence in Graduate Education and Research in the Cognitive and Neural Underpinnings of (Typical and Atypical) Language Development, NFR INTPART, 2020-2024

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Modelling the N400


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Semantic Pre-activation in a Potts Latching Network: Modelling the N400, NFR Mobility, 2020-2024

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Early Language Development in the Digital Age, EU Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN, 2019-2024