Aneta Pavlenko
Linguist and researcher specialising in bilingualism and the relationship between people and their languages, with expertise on emotional effects of language and sociolinguistic issues.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 26min
How mother tongue moulds us
Núria Sebastián Gallés, cognitive psychologist who studies how babies learn multiple languages, and Aneta Pavlenko, linguist focused on bilingualism and language and emotion, discuss how early exposure shapes perception. They talk about infant language discrimination, emotional effects of switching tongues, live social learning, shifting identities, and how trauma, therapy and migration influence which language feels ‘home’.
