Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen"

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    • Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian 

      Ringstad, Tina Louise; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-29)
      Norwegian embedded clauses give children two options for subject placement: preceding or following negation (S-Neg/Neg-S). In the adult language, S-Neg is the ‘default’ and highly frequent option, and Neg-S is infrequent in children’s input. However, Neg-S may be argued to be the structurally less complex. We investigate whether children are aware of the existence of both subject positions, and ...

    • Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning 

      Mitrofanova, Natalia; Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-10)
      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 was present in Russian and Greek yet absent in Norwegian (grammatical case). The participants were Norwegian-Russian and Norwegian-Greek bilinguals as well as a group of Norwegian ...

    • Full Transfer Potential in L3/Ln Acquisition Crosslinguistic Influence as a Property-by-Property Process 

      Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-07-13)
      This chapter discusses L3/Ln acquisition as a step-by-step acquisition process, where crosslinguistic influence is considered to be the result of co-activation of lexical items and syntactic structures of the previously acquired languages in processing. That is, as argued by the Linguistic Proximity Model and the Scalpel Model, L3/Ln acquisition is learning by parsing/processing. The main focus of ...

    • Minnetale over Janne Margrethe Bondi Johannessen i Det norske videnskapsakademi 

      Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022)
      Janne Bondi Johannessen ble medlem av DNVA så sent som i 2019. Hun rakk altså bare å være medlem i litt over et år før hun gikk bort 15. juni 2020, bare 59 år gammel. Hun forlot en aktiv og produktiv forskergjerning som ble brått avbrutt – og hennes utallige aktiviteter ble rett og slett hengende i luften: en konferanse, flere publikasjoner, et bokprosjekt, en redaktørgjerning, prosjektsøknader og ...

    • Russian heritage language development in narrative contexts: Evidence from pre- and primary-school children in Norway, Germany, and the UK 

      Rodina, Yulia; Bogoyavlenskaya, Alexandra; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-09)
      The present study aims at obtaining a comprehensive picture of language development in Russian heritage language (RHL) by bringing together evidence from previous investigations focusing on morphosyntax and global accent as well as from a newly conducted analysis of a less-studied domain–lexical development. Our investigation is based on a narrative sample of 143 pre- and primary-school ...

    • Structural similarity in third language acquisition 

      Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-22)
      Language learners typically experience cross-linguistic influence (CLI) from one or several previously acquired languages when acquiring an additional language. Learners of a second language (L2) are influenced by their native languages in all language domains ranging from phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax, to semantics, discourse, and pragmatics. In third (and subsequent) language (L3/ Ln) ...