Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Westergaard, Marit"
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Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition?
Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the ... -
Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change
Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper discusses grammatical gender in Norwegian by bringing together data from first language acquisition, Norwegian heritage language, and dialect change. In all these contexts, gender is often claimed to be a ... -
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 ... -
Hvor mange genus er det i Tromsødialekten?
Westergaard, Marit; Rodina, Yulia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Tradisjonelt har tromsø-dialekten tre genus; maskulinum, femininum og nøytrum. i denne artikkelen presenterer vi resultater fra to eksperimentelle studier som kan tyde på at femininum er i ferd med å forsvinne, slik at ... -
Hvor mange genus er det i Trondheims-dialekten?
Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Trondheims-dialekten har tradisjonelt tre grammatiske kjønn: hankjønn, hunkjønn, og intetkjønn. Denne artikkelen presenterer resultater fra to eksperimenter som viser at hunkjønn står svakere i denne dialekten enn tidligere ... -
Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers
Klassen, Rachel; Kolb, Nadine; Hopp, Holger; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between lexical (grammatical gender) and syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in ... -
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, ... -
L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon
Klassen, Rachel; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development ... -
L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation. Response to commentaries on the keynote “Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition
Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I would first of all like to thank the many authors who have provided commentaries on my keynote article ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’ (Westergaard, 2021a). ... -
Microvariation in Multilingual Situations: The Importance of Property-by-Property Acquisition
Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this article, I argue that first language (L1), second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition are fundamentally the same process, based on learning by parsing. Both child and adult learners are sensitive to ... -
On the directionality of cross-linguistic effects in bidialectal bilingualism
Castro, Tammer; Rothman, Jason; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explores the interpretation of null and overt object pronouns by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) bidialectal bilinguals. Object pronouns are a particularly good domain to examine, given ... -
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on cognition: (How) should we proceed?
Leivada, Evelina; Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Westergaard, Marit; Rothman, Jason (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged. One might ponder if there is enough evidence ... -
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Rothman, Jason (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged. One might ponder if there is enough evidence ... -
Overgeneralization and change: The role of acquisition in diachrony
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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, ... -
The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition.
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Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: Morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language
Mitrofanova, Natalia; Urek, Olga; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Previous research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that this property is acquired early in transparent gender systems such as Russian. However, it is not clear to what extent children are sensitive to the ... -
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 ... -
Syntax Matters: Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Similarity in Third Language Acquisition
Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Over the last two decades, the question of to which linguistic cues learners pay attention when they decode a new language has been subject to controversy in the field of third language (L3) acquisition. In this article, ...