Professor of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
Emanuel Bylund is Professor of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research concerns age effects in language acquisition and language attrition, and the role of linguistic categories for the cognitive processing of reality. His work has covered languages such as Afrikaans, German, Spanish, Swedish, and isiXhosa, and has appeared in outlets such as Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cognition, Developmental Science, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. He is the founding member of the African Psycholinguistics Association, and director of the Multilingualism and Cognition Laboratory at Stellenbosch University.
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