• 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 ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production 

      Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia; Sekerina, Irina; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison 

      Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      It is well known that grammatical gender systems may change historically. Previous research has documented loss of the feminine gender in several Norwegian dialects, including those spoken in Oslo and Tromsø (Lødrup in ...