We welcome you to the Nordic Research Network for Educational Linguistics (NordEdLing) and our spring seminar series 2026.
Summary
This presentation draws on my doctoral research exploring whether cognitive processing is similar across verbal and pictorial domains. Cognitive processing of sentences and picture sequences was examined in children with typical language development and in peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). The results point to similarities across domains, aligning with emergentist–functionalist frameworks that suggest language processing relies on general cognitive mechanisms rather than being specific to the verbal domain. These findings open new discussions on how pictorial materials can support comprehension, particularly for children with DLD.
Seminar with Hanna Lindfors, Department of Swedish, Linnaeus University.
Hanna Lindfors, PhD, is a lecturer at Linnaeus University. Her research interest in children’s language processing is grounded in her previous work as a speech and language therapist.
11 February, 15.00-16.00 (CET)
For more information, please contact Sergej Ivanov: sergej.ivanov@lnu.se
