Niclas Abrahamsson

Biography

2001: PhD degree in Bilingualism, Stockholm University (Centre for Research on Bilingualism). Thesis title: “Acquiring L2 Syllable Margins. Studies on the Simplification of Onsets and Codas in Interlanguage Phonology.” 1993: BA degree, Stockholm University (Linguistics, Phonetics, Psychology). The central concerns of my research and teaching include linguistic (especially phonetic and phonological), psycholinguistic (including neuro-cognitive), and psychological aspects of SLA/bilingualism. A recurrent theme is child-adult differences in language acquisition and loss and their relation to the maturation of the brain and a critical period. My three ongoing research projects focus on (1) age of acquisition effects vs. bilingualism effects, (2) the roles of procedural/implicit vs. declarative/explicit memory in near-native grammatical acquisition and processing, and (3) listeners’ perception of near-native speech. Since 2010 I'm a full professor of Swedish as a Second Language and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Bilingualism.

Research Interest

Bilingualism