WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) The pandemic has dramatically disrupted kids normal routines, but a new study suggests the initial lockdowns of 2020 did not necessarily hinder preschoolers
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) The pandemic has dramatically disrupted kids normal routines, but a new study suggests the initial lockdowns of 2020 did not necessarily hinder preschoolers
Get latest articles and stories on Lifestyle at LatestLY. COVID-19 forced children to stay isolated and indoors for more than a year. The precious formative years of a child are for it to explore, touch, hear, speak, feel and see things, outside their home. This opportunity, unfortunately, was snatched from them. Now, a recent study has shed light on the impact of isolation on children. Lifestyle News | Study Explores Impact of COVID-19 Social Isolation Measures on Development of Children.
From Marit Westergaard:
Our very own Natalia Mitrofanova has just been notified that she has been granted approx. 10 mill NOK from the Research Council of Norway for her project proposal
MuMin – Multilingual Minds: grammar interaction in multilingual acquisition. The project fits perfectly with the AcqVA Aurora profile (especially Theme 2) and will add another post-doc as well as a researcher to the group. Here is a brief project description:
“The last decades have witnessed a remarkable increase in effort from several disciplines aimed to uncover the cognitive mechanisms of language acquisition and language processing, and to understand how language is organised in the mind. One important aspect of this enterprise is the study of whether and how multiple languages interact within multilingual minds. However, this question is difficult to address within current methodological approaches which compare the linguistic behaviour of bilingual children to that of their monolingual