Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Westergaard, Marit"
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Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A search for the terms “acceptability judgment tasks” and “language” and “grammaticality judgment tasks” and “language” produces results which report findings that are based on the exact same elicitation technique. Although ... -
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 ... -
Attrition via acquisition: The importance of development in small steps.
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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 ... -
The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English
Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit; Lundquist, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the experiment presented here, the predictions ... -
Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of third language acquisition
González Alonso, Jorge; Rothman, Jason; Berndt, Denny; Castro, Tammer; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims: in this introduction we situate the seven articles in this special issue in terms of the connections between their themes and their individual contributions to the field of third language ... -
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) ... -
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 Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandic
Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll; Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Heritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with ... -
Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing: Evidence from cross-language priming in bilingual children
Wolleb, Anna; Sorace, Antonella; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this paper, we explore the role of cognition in bilingual syntactic processing by employing a structural priming paradigm. A group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and an age-matched group of Norwegian monolingual ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...