Blar i forfatter "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 ...

    • Phonological influence in bilectal speakers of Brazilian and European Portuguese 

      Kupisch, Tanja; Castro, Tammer; Krämer, Martin; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-21)
      Aims and objectives: This article investigates naturalistic acquisition of a second dialect (D2), comparing the global accent of speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) exposed to European Portuguese (EP), either as children or as adults (early vs late bilectals). The focus is on the predicted advantage of an early age of onset of the D2, as well as possible crosslinguistic influence from the D2 onto ...

    • 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) ...