Biography
Sven Strömqvist has a Ph.D. from the University of Göteborg 1985 and a D.h.c. from the University of Jyväskylä 2004. He held a chair in Language Learning at the Department of Linguistics, University of Lund 1999-2020. Sven was project leader for the Centre for Languages and Literature and its Humanities Laboratory at the same university and was the director of the lab between 2004 and 2010. Also, Sven was Professor II at the National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger 1999-2013 and he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (vicerektor) of Research for Lund University 2009-2015. He is a board member of Markus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation since 2006 and has served as Vice-Chair of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network between Stanford and universities in Sweden. Since 2021 Sven is professor emeritus at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University. In his Ph.D. diss. (1984) Sven investigated how 3-year-olds use language to support fiction during make-believe play. After his dissertation he has been concerned with mainly three research areas. First, language development in children and adolescents, often using a crosslinguistic research design (e.g. 1992, 2000, 2004). Second, comparative studies of the activities of speaking and writing in real time (e.g. 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015), and third, cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity and diversity of medium (e.g. 2004, 2009, 2022). Over the past years Sven has taken an increasing interest in early phases of the drafting process, primarily that of texts (e.g. 2022) but also the process of revising and reworking other types of external representations, such as architectural drawings, mathematical proofs, works of art, and music. How does the ”author” interact with his/her external representation to develop her/his ideas?
Representative Research Publications
Strömqvist, S. (1984). Make-believe through words: A linguistic study of children’s play with a doll’s house. Ph.D. diss., Gothenburg Monographs in Linguistics 4, University of Gothenburg: Department of Linguistics.
Plunkett, K., & Strömqvist, S. (1992). The acquisition of scandinavian languages, in D. I. Slobin (Ed.), The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition (Vol. 3, pp 457-556), Lawrence Erlbaum.
Strömqvist, S., & Ragnarsdóttir, H. (2000). On the acquisition of verb argument structure. Linguistics, 38(3), 523-543.
Strömqvist, S., Johansson, V., Ragnarsdóttir, H., Kriz, S., & Ravid, D. (2002). Towards a cross-linguistic study of lexical quanta in speech and writing. Written Language and Literacy, 5(1), 45–68.
Strömqvist, S., Nordqvist, Å., & Wengelin, Å. (2004). Writing the frog-story: Developmental and cross-modal perspectives. In S. Strömqvist and L. Verhoeven (eds.). Relating events in narrative – typological and contextual perspectives (pp. 359-394). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Strömqvist, S. (2009). Språkets Öga. Om vägarna mellan tankar och ord. [The eye of language. On the paths between thoughts and words] Studentlitteratur.
Bertram, R., Tønnessen, F., Strömqvist, S., Niemi, P., & Hyönä, J. (2015). Cascaded processing in written compound word production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9(207).
Strömqvist, S. (2022). On the nature of language production – Towards a general model. In R. Levie, A. Bar-On, O. Ashkenazi, E. Dattner & G. Brandes (Eds.) Developing language and literacy: Studies in honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid. Literacy Studies: Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, (Vol. 23, pp. 173-190). Springer.
