Marianne Gullberg is a Swedish psycholinguist specializing in second language acquisition, processing and the study of gesture.
[1] In 2008 she became a tenured associate professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, retaining her research role at the Max Planck Institute and co-founding the Nijmegen Gesture Centre alongside Aslı Özyürek.
In 2010 she was appointed Professor of Psycholinguistics and Director of the Humanities Lab at Lund University.
Her early work reacted against the theory-driven structuralism of Swedish general linguistics at the time by seeking to investigate language use.
[1] In 2019 she was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the European Second Language Association, for whom she had previously served as vice-president.