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Marit Westergaard

  • Magdalena Wrembel, Chloe Michelle Castle, Justyna Gruszecka, Roumyana Slabakova, Marta Velnić, Marit Westergaard :
    The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian: an across-domain investigation
    International Journal of Multilingualism 2025 DOI / FULLTEKST
  • Chloe Michelle Castle, Anna Skalba, Marit Kristine Westergaard :
    Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Investigating the roles of dominance, recency, and property
    Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2025 DOI
  • Merete Brendeford Anderssen, Helene Jensberg, Terje Lohndal, Björn Lundquist, Marit Westergaard :
    Verb second word order and finite verb placement in North American Norwegian
    2025
  • Guro Busterud, Terje Lohndal, Toril Opsahl, Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard :
    Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect
    Nordic Journal of Linguistics 2025 DOI / FULLTEKST
  • Marit Westergaard :
    Microvariation and multiple grammars
    Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2025 DOI
  • Chloe Castle, Isabel Nadine Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Westergaard :
    Investigating crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages
    Second Language Research 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Judith Schlenter, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German
    Acta Psychologica 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Serge Minor, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    The Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues for the Processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German Bilinguals: An Eye Tracking Study
    Topics in Cognitive Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ute Bohnacker, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    Learning and unlearning Verb Second word order
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Marit Westergaard, Judith Schlenter :
    The role of structural similarity in L3/Ln comprehension
    02. Oktober 2025
  • Charlotte Englert, Marc Meisezahl, Marit Westergaard, Tanja Kupisch :
    V2 transfer in ab-initio L3 acquisition
    02. Oktober 2025
  • Serge Minor, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Kamil Długosz, Pavel Caha, Anna Olszewska, Marit Westergaard et al.:
    Grammatical adaptation in verbal aspect: Ukrainian children acquiring Polish and Czech
    20. Oktober 2025
  • Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Kamil Długosz, Serge Minor, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence and the role of age: morphological case in L1 Ukrainian–L2 Polish children
    20. Oktober 2025
  • Kamil Długosz, Anna Olszewska, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Westergaard :
    Morphophonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in child L2 Polish
    20. Oktober 2025
  • Marit Westergaard :
    Multilingual Acquisition and Attrition in Small Steps
    20. Oktober 2025
  • Ewa Haman, Ianthi Tsimpli, Marit Westergaard :
    Multilingualism in neurotypical and neurodivergent children and adults.
    15. Oktober 2025
  • Bentolhoda Bahrani, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Serge Minor :
    Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic-Norwegian Adolescents
    03. Oktober 2025
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb, Marit Westergaard, Serge Minor :
    The Role of Heritage and Societal Languages in L3 Aspect Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking
    04. Oktober 2025
  • Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Rethinking L3 Development: Is It Time to Move Beyond Full Transfer Models?
    03. Oktober 2025
  • Brechje Antonet van Osch, Rosalinde Stadt, Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Merete Brendeford Anderssen, Marit Westergaard :
    Cross-linguistic influence in early stages of L3 French and L3 German: An empirical study on Dutch-English bilinguals in the Netherlands
    2025
  • Brechje Antonet van Osch, Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Merete Brendeford Anderssen, Marit Westergaard :
    Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors affecting the production and processing of adverb placement in L3 French, German and Spanish in Norwegian-English bilingual high school students
    2025
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Serge Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb, Marit Westergaard :
    The role of heritage and societal languages in L3 aspect processing: Evidence from eye-tracking
    04. September 2025
  • Annelin Eriksen, Marit Westergaard, Kjetil Tasken, Terje Lohndal :
    Vitenskapsakademiet vil bruke utestemmen, også om Palestina
    07. August 2025 DOI
  • Annelin Eriksen, Marit Westergaard, Kjetil Tasken, Terje Lohndal :
    Fem Tiltak for å sikre tillit til vitenskap - Et forslag fra Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi
    08. Mai 2025 DOI
  • Annelin Eriksen, Marit Westergaard, Kjetil Tasken, Terje Lohndal :
    Under Trump er akademisk frihet under angrep
    14. März 2025 DOI
  • Annelin Eriksen, Marit Westergaard, Kjetil Tasken, Terje Lohndal :
    Støtter forskere og forskning under press
    20. Februar 2025 DOI
  • Pouran Seifi, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Investigating the Processing and Production of L3 English Sentences by Heritage Turkish Students in Norway
    2025
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Sergey Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb, Marit Kristine Westergaard :
    The role of heritage languages in L3 aspect processing: evidence from eye-tracking
    2025
  • Bentolhoda Bahrani, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Sergey Minor :
    Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic Norwegian Adolescents
    2025
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Kamil Długosz, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Sergey Minor, Anna Olszewska, Jakub Przybył et al.:
    The Effect of Structural Similarity in Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence: Case and Gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2 learners
    2025
  • Marit Kristine Westergaard :
    V2 or not V2 – that is the question: Word Order Variation in Norwegian
    2025
  • Pouran Seifi, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Cross-Linguistic Influences on L3 Sentence Processing: Insights from Bilingual Children Using Eye-Tracking and Behavioral Methods
    2025
  • Pouran Seifi, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Unveiling Cross-Linguistic Influence in Multilingual Sentence Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking and Grammaticality Judgments
    2025
  • Marit Westergaard, Chloe Michelle Castle :
    Are bilinguals better than monolinguals at learning further languages? The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires
    2025
  • Brechje van Osch, Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Rosalinde Stadt, Merete Brendeford Anderssen, Marit Westergaard :
    Cross-linguistic Influence in Norwegian-English Bilinguals Learning L3 Spanish, French, or German
    2025
  • Magdalena Wrembel, Marit Westergaard, Roumyana Slabakova, Marta Velnic, Chloe Michelle Castle, Justyna Gruszecka :
    How grammatical do I sound when I am accented? The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian
    2025
  • Evelina Leivada, Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Camilla Masullo, Lara Kelly-Iturriaga, Marit Westergaard, Jason Rothman :
    Exploring the role of language distance in bilingual cognition
    2025
  • Guro Busterud, Terje Lohndal, Toril Opsahl, Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard :
    Language change and loss of feminine gender in the Oslo dialect
    2025
  • Kamil Długosz, Natalia Mitrofanova, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Marit Westergaard :
    Structural similarity and its role in cross-linguistic influence: Case and gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2
    2025
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Kamil Długosz, Sergey Minor, Marit Westergaard :
    Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence and the Effect of Age: Ukrainian Refugee Children in Poland
    2025
  • Pouran Seifi, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Sentence processing and comprehension by child heritage bilinguals
    2024
  • Brechje Antonet van Osch, Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Merete Brendeford Anderssen, Marit Kristine Westergaard :
    Cross-linguistic influence from Norwegian and English in the production and processing of adverbs in L3 Spanish and French
    2024
  • Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    Facilitative cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism: The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires
    2024
  • Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard, Chloe Michelle Castle, Natalia Mitrofanova :
    Investigating CLI in multilingual acquisition through an artificial language
    2024
  • Judith Schlenter, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    When the dative becomes less reliable – L1 attrition in a multilingual context
    2024
  • Nadine Kolb, Serge Minor, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
    2024
  • Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    Sensitivity to microvariation in gender assignment to ambiguous nouns in Russian: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual native speakers
    2024
  • Serge Minor, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    The interaction of linguistic and visual cues for the processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German bilinguals: An eye tracking study
    2024
  • Chloe Michelle Castle, Anna Skalba, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role?
    2024
  • Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard :
    Multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical considerations, research design & some empirical evidence
    2024

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    Research interests

    First, second/third, and bilingual language acquisition, syntactic variation, heritage languages, language attrition, diachronic change, com­parative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian (especially North Norwegian dialects), Russian, German

    Personal website: https://site.uit.no/maritwestergaard/

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    Member of research group

    AcqVA: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition   Norsk innhold AcqVA Aurora   English content The Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab   Norsk innhold C-LaBL   English content C-LaBL   Norsk innhold C-LaBL   Norsk innhold AcqVA-Nor   English content AcqVA-Nor   Norsk innhold

    Member of project

    A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender (MultiGender): Acquisition, Variation & Change - CAS (2019-2022) Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development (BLINK) - MSCA (2018-2021) Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon (GenBiLex) - MSCA (2017-2020) Microvariation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situations (MiMS) - RCN (2016-2021) Multilingual Minds (MuMin)    English content Multilingual Minds: Grammar Interaction in Multilingual Acquisition (MuMiN) - RCN (2021-2025) Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism (ADIM) - EEA Norway grants (2022 - 2024) CLEAR - Cross-linguistic influence during real-time processing in child heritage speakers AcqCESS - Acquisition & Attrition: Crosslinguistic Effects of Structural Similarity MultiBridge - Bridging the Gap Between Multilingual Research and Society MOVA - Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition
    Fakultet for Humaniora, Samfunnsvitenskap og Lærerutdanning A2016B


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