Bio

Laia Arnaus Gil is a postdoctoral researcher in Romance Linguistics at the University of Wuppertal (Germany). In 2012 she obtained her doctorate on the acquisition of copulative and auxiliary verbs in multilingual children learning Romance languages and German. She has participated as a researcher in a project on code-switching in early bilingualism and co-directed a project on early trilingualism, both funded by the DFG German Research Foundation. She is currently conducting research on heritage speakers of the Catalan, Spanish, French and German languages and working on her second monograph on the multilingual acquisition of attributive adjectives in Romance languages. She is a member of several research groups examining early multilingualism from a linguistic perspective, as well as the role of family language policies and the different factors that shape heritage language proficiency.