CLUNL

Yolanda Xavier, PhD student at CLUNL, was awarded the Junior Researcher LAB Award for the most promising doctoral project presented at the 32nd conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA).

This award is presented to junior researchers carrying out original projects in the areas of bilingualism, second language research and multilingualism. Irrespective of the stage of the PhD project, we honour a project that addresses new and ambitious research questions, tackles methodological challenges and makes novel contributions to the field.

Yolanda is a PhD student in Linguistics, specialization area Psycholinguistics (FCT grant 2022.13977.BD). During the conference, she presented the first study of her PhD project, which focuses on the production of nasal vowels and primary word stress by L1 Ukrainian speakers of L2 Portuguese (phonological analysis).