Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Kupisch, Tanja"
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Generative Approaches to Second Language (L2) Acquisition and Advanced L2 Proficiency
Rothman, Jason; Bayram, Fatih; Kupisch, Tanja; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Chapter, 2018)Child first language acquisition (L1A) and adult second language acquisition (SLA) have observably different outcomes. Considering how distinct the two acquisition contexts often are, divergence is perhaps not surprising. ... -
Heritage language acquisition: What it reveals and why it is important for formal linguistic theories
Lohndal, Terje; Rothman, Jason; Kupisch, Tanja; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper discusses the interplay between acquisition and theory construction. It endeavors to show how a more direct and crucially bi‐directional relationship between formal linguistic theory and the study of heritage ... -
Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence from Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the UK
Rodina, Yulia; Kupisch, Tanja; Meir, Natalia; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this paper, we consider elicited production data (real and nonce words tasks) from five different studies on the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Russian, comparing children growing up in Germany, Israel, ... -
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)
Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We investigate German–Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, ... -
Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic Heritage Languages
Westergaard, Marit; Kupisch, Tanja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, i.e. languages acquired naturalistically by children in parts of the world where these languages are not the majority language. Summarizing ... -
Structural and phonological cues for gender assignment in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German. Experiments with real and nonce words
Kupisch, Tanja; Geiß, Miriam; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We investigate the acquisition of grammatical gender marking in German by monolingual children as well as German-Russian bilingual children who grow up in Germany as heritage speakers of Russian. We ask to what extent ...