Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Mitrofanova, Natalia"
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Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning
Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar ... -
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse
Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than ... -
Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian: the role of cumulative input, proficiency, and dominance
Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper reports on an experimental study investigating the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian by heritage speakers living in Norway. The participants are 54 Norwegian-Russian bilingual children (4;0-10;2) as ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Child L3 English: An Empirical Study on Russian-German Heritage Bilinguals
Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aims and objectives: This empirical study investigates variables affecting crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. We examine whether structural or typological similarity leads to CLI ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules
Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition of English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning
Mitrofanova, Natalia; Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model
Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Rodina, Yulia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims and Objectives: The main goal of the present study is to investigate effects of crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition by simultaneous bilinguals. We address the following research questions: Do both ... -
The Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues for the Processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German Bilinguals: An Eye Tracking Study
Minor, Serge; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Modulation of visual attention in the Visual World Paradigm relies on parallel processing of linguistic and visual information. Previous studies have argued that the human linguistic capacity includes an aspect of anticipation ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Structural similarity in third language acquisition
Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)