Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (AThEME)

Linnaea Stockall, David Adger, Jenny Cheshire, and Hagit Borer, together with colleagues at 16 other European institutions

This grant is to establish the AThEME consortium to study bilingualism and multilingualism in Europe. The research focuses on the following four core research topics.

1. Regional languages in Multilingual Europe: Linguistics resources in need of resourceful policies
2. Heritage languages and language users in the EU: challenges and dilemmas of immigrant language maintenance
3. Multilingualism and communicative impairments (e.g., dyslexia, aphasia, dementia)
4. Being Multilingual (e.g., factors which lead to successful multilinguals, bilingual advantages in cognitive tasks)

At QMUL, we will focus on (2) [Adger, Cheshire, Cotter] and (4) [Stockall, Borer].

Funded by a European Commission Collaborative Project Award, 2014-2019