Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Anderssen, Merete"
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A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions
Fábregas, Antonio; Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In language acquisition studies, there is a recurring debate regarding how to account for non-target-consistent utterances produced by young children. Anderssen and Westergaard (Lingua 120:2569–2588, 2010) study the ... -
Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language
Anderssen, Merete; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study investigates possessives and modified definite DPs in a corpus of heritage Norwegian spoken in the US. Both constructions involve variation in Norwegian – two word orders for possessives (pre- and postnominal) ... -
The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift
Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article reports on a syntactic acceptability judgement study of 59 adult L2/Ln learners of Norwegian and a group of native controls, studying subject and object shift. These constructions involve movement of (mainly) ... -
Til en ung en kjekk en kar: Indefinite determiner spreading in Scandinavian and beyond
Anderssen, Merete; Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2019)This study investigates multiple indefi nite determiners in structures involving adjectival modifi cation in a Norwegian dialect. Determiner spreading has been observed in numerous non-standard Germanic varieties but has ... -
Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language
Lundquist, Bjørn; Anderssen, Merete; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper investigates spontaneous production from 50 speakers of Norwegian heritage language in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech and studies the interplay between four linguistic properties: possessives and double ... -
Word order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian
Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit (Chapter, 2020)This study investigates two word order phenomena in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the US, subject shift (SS) and object shift (OS). SS and OS occur in syntactic environments where (pronominal) subjects and objects ...