Duarte Wirth Beatriz

Duarte Goncalves Ventura de Paula W Beatriz

Keywords

Multilingualism, Attrition, Bilingual development, Heritage languages, Migration, Aging and Vulnerability

Scientific distinctions and prizes

Prix de Faculté: Maîtrise ès Lettres 2018 2018
Pour ses excellents résultats généraux et pour la qualité de son mémoire de Maîtrise intitulé "Attitudes to the national and migrant languages in a multilingual community: A Sociolinguistic Study in the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland", dirigé par la prof. Anita Auer.

Beatriz Duarte Wirth (she/her) is a doctoral student at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests focus on multilingualism, bilingual development, heritage languages and migration. In 2017 she obtained a degree of Master of Arts in English Linguistics from UNIL. She wrote her MA thesis on language attitudes to the Swiss national languages and the migrant languages spoken in the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Her PhD project continues to explore multilingual communities, now with a focus on heritage languages. Her research investigates whether speakers of typologically different languages, i.e. English and Portuguese, experience language attrition differently when immersed in a French-speaking context.