Previous members and completed PhDs can be found here.
Director: Marit Westergaard, Professor UiT/Professor II NTNU
E-mail: marit.westergaard@uit.no
Research interests: First, second/third & bilingual language acquisition, heritage language/language attrition, syntactic variation, diachronic change, comparative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian, Russian, German.
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Co-Director: Terje Lohndal, Professor NTNU/Professor II UiT
![]() E-mail: terje.lohndal@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, interfaces, variation, heritage languages/language attrition, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, English, Norwegian.
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Professors and other researchers
Jubin Abutalebi, Professor II UiT
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Merete Anderssen, Professor UiT
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Fatih Bayram, MSCA Fellow UIT
E-mail: fatih.bayram@uit.no
Research interests: Simultaneous first language bilingualism; heritage speaker bilingualism; language attrition in bilingualism; acquisition of morphosyntax; roles and weights of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in development/processing/ultimate attainment variation across bi/multilinguals.
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Kristine Bentzen, Professor UiT
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Elma Blom, Professor II, UiT
E-mail: W.B.T.Blom@uu.nl
Research interests: Multilingual language development, language disorders, language in relation to cognitive and socio-emotional development, dialect and heritage language development, multilingual education.
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Guro Busterud, Associate Professor UiO
E-mail: guro.busterud@iln.uio.no
Research interests: First, second/third language acquisition, bilingual language acquisition, language acquisition and critical periods, methodology, syntax, syntactic variation, binding theory, finiteness, nominal structure, Norwegian (L1 and L2/L3).
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Nicole Busby, Associate Professor NTNU
E-mail: nicole.busby@ntnu.no
Research interests: Second language acquisition, reading in a second language, academic language, vocabulary, metacognitive awareness, parallel language use.
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Chloe Castle, Postdoc UiTE-mail: chloe.castle@uit.no
Research interests: Multilingualism, language acquisition, language attrition, heritage and community languages, language change and variation, and Slavic linguistics.
Anne Dahl, Professor NTNU
E-mail: anne.j.dahl@ntnu.no
Research interests: L2/L3/Ln acquisition (theoretical and applied perspectives): L2/L3/Ln syntax, L2/L3/Ln mental lexicon, Age and language acquisition, Multilingualism, Implicit and explicit language learning, English in Norway, English in (Norwegian) schools, English in (Norwegian and international) academia.
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Cecile De Cat, Professor II, UiT
E-mail: C.DeCat@leeds.ac.uk
Research interests: Language acquisition (L1, L2, bilingual), environmental and cognitive predictors of language proficiency and high-level verbal reasoning (in children and adolescents), measuring bilingual experience, L2 processing, interface between syntax and information structure.
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Vincent DeLuca, Associate Professor UiT
E-mail: deluca.vincentf@gmail.com
Research interests: Bi/multilingualism; neuroplasticity, executive functions, neurolinguistics, adult second language acquisition, adult third language acquisition.
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Kristin Melum Eide, Professor NTNU
E-mail: kristin.eide@ntnu.no
Research interests: Universal Grammar, multiple grammars in one mind (universal multilingualism), dialects, first and second language acquisition, language contact and change, heritage language, syntax, semantics, predication, tense, aspect, modality, mood, and finiteness.
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Ragnhild Eik, Associate Professor NTNU
E-mail: ragnhild.eik@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax and morphology, dialect variation, compounding, grammatical gender, argument structure, code switching, theories of science.
Kirill Elin, Postdoc UiT![]() E-mail: kirill.elin@uit.no
Research interests: Morphological processing, native and nonnative language processing, language mapping, language lateralization, multilingualism, cognitive ageing.
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Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Postdoc, UiT
E-mail: tekabe.l.feleke@uit.no
Research interests: Quantitative dialectology or dialectometry, multilingualism and multilingual minds, first and second language acquisition and attrition.
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Khadij Gharibi, Postdoc, UiT
E-mail: khadijeh.gharibi@uit.no
Research interests: Cross-linguistic influence of different societal languages on the same heritage language; the role of attrited input in heritage language development; acquisition, attrition and maintenance of heritage languages.
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Jorge González Alonso, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: jorge.gonzalez.alonso@uit.no
Research interests: Second and third language acquisition, non-native language processing, bilingualism, morphology, compounding, (acquisition, representation and processing of) grammatical gender, eye-tracking during reading. English, Spanish, Norwegian, Basque.
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Inghild Flaate Høyem, Professor NTNU
E-mail: inghild.flaate@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, comparative syntax, second/third language acquisition, predication, adjuncts, control, German, Norwegian, English.
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Nadine Kolb, Postdoc UiT
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Martin Krämer, Professor UiT
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Maki Kubota, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: maki.kubota@uit.no
Research interests: Bilingualism, child language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism, language attrition, executive control.
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Kjersti Faldet Listhaug, Associate Professor NTNU
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Sergey Minor, Assosiate Professor UiTE-mail: sergey.minor@uit.no Research interests: Semantic and syntactic processing, in particular the processing of verbal aspect. |
Bjørn Lundquist, Associate Professor UiT
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Natalia Mitrofanova, Researcher UiT
E-mail: natalia.mitrofanova@uit.no
Research interests: Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual), acquisition of functional categories, the structure of early grammars, syntax and semantics of locative and directional expressions, experimental linguistics, eye-tracking (VWP), Russian, Norwegian, English, German.
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Yanina Prystauka, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: yanina.prystauka@uconn.edu
Research interests: Bilingualism, neurobiology of sentence processing, event comprehension.
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Jason Rothman, Professor UiT
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Yulia Rodina, Professor UiT
E-mail: yulia.rodina@uit.no
Research interests: Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual), heritage languages, multilingualism and education, multilingual language assessment, Norwegian, Russian, English.
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Marina Sokolova, Postdoc NTNUE-mail: marina.sokolova@ntnu.no
Research interests: Sequential multilingualism, code-switching, language processing for comprehension and production, parsing operations in L1/L2/L3/Ln.
Martin Schweinberger, Principal Data Science Advisor UiT
E-mail: m.schweinberger@uq.edu.au
Research interests: Mechanisms of language variation and change, determinants of language use and linguistic variability, discourse markers and particles / adjective intensification / L1 and L2 acquisition, computational modelling and visualization of linguistic data, digital humanities, data science, best practices in text analytics and data management.
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Ludovica Serratrice, Professor II UiT
E-mail: l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk
Research interests: First, second and bilingual language acquisition, reference, metalinguistic awareness, relationship between vocabulary and grammar, processing of relative clauses, syntactic priming, cross-linguistic influence. English, Italian.
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Roumyana Slabakova, Professor II NTNU
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Isabel Nadine Jensen, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: isabel.n.jensen@uit.no
Research interests: Second and third language acquisition, multilingualism, acquisition of morphosyntax, the Bottleneck Hypothesis.
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Aleksandra Tomic, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: aleksandra.tomic05@gmail.com
Research interests: multilingual predictive processing, multilingual emotional processing, code-switch processing, experiential factors shaping the processing/acquisition of multiple languages, data collection and statistical analysis methods in the service or psycho/neurolinguistics.
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Olga Urek, Researcher UiT
E-mail: olga.urek@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, feature geometry, Baltic languages, acquisition, bilingualism.
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Brechje van Osch, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: brechje.a.osch@uit.no
Research interests: First, second, third, bilingual language acquisition, heritage languages, language attrition, cross linguistic influance/transfer, linguistic interfaces, Romance, Germanic.
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Øystein A. Vangsnes, Professor UiT
E-mail: oystein.vangsnes@uit.no
Research interests: Syntax, North Germanic languages and dialects, language variation, multilingualism, multilectalism, literacy, cognitive development, language and education, language planning, the Sámi languages.
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Marta Velnić, Researcher NTNU
E-mail: marta.velnic@ntnu.no
Research interests: Language acquisition, Cross-Linguistic Influence, Bilingualism, Pragmatics, Possessives, Ditransitive structures, Givenness, Animacy, Referring expressions, Adjectives.
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Toms Voits, Postdoc UiT
E-mail: toms.voits@uit.no
Research interests: The effects of speaking more than one language on ones cognition and the brain, the potential implications of bi-/multilingualism in the later years of life and on clinical neurodegeneration.
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Andrew Weir, Associate Professor NTNU
E-mail: andrew.weir@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax, semantics, interfaces, microcomparative syntax, dialectal variation, register variation (especially ‘telegraphic’ written register), ellipsis, Scottish English, Germanic.
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Tor Anders Åfarli, Professor Emeritus NTNU
E-mail: tor.aafarli@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax, semantics, morphology, interfaces, grammar models, inter- and intra-individual linguistic variation, bilingualism, language contact and change, heritage language, language mixing, syntactic ‘periphery’ phenomena, language acquisition, Germanic langauges, Scandinavian dialects, languages of India and China.
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Judith Schlenter, MSCA Fellow UiT![]() E-mail: judith.schlenter@uit.no
Research interests: Sentence comprehension, predictive processing, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic methods.
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Anna Kamenetski, Postdoc UiTE-mail: anna.kamenetski@uit.no
Research interests: Relationship between language and cognition, with a specific focus on the processing of aspectual temporality, event cognition, and the influence of grammatical aspect on the way L1 and L2 speakers think about events.
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Jiuzhou Hao, Researcher UiT![]() E-mail: jiuzhou.hao@uit.no
Research interests: First language acquisition, second language acquisition, language impairment (pathology), heritage language acquisition, child bilingualism, syntactic processing in language comprehension and production, eye-movement during reading and listening (both children and adults).
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Maud Westendorp, Postdoc UiTE-mail: maud.westendorp@uit.no
Research interests: Variation in the Nordic languages and dialects, and in experimental approaches to syntactic variation
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Gustavo Guajardo, Postdoc UiT
Kristin Klubbo Brodahl, Associate Professor NTNU
PhD Students
Hedda Solbakken, PhD Candidate, NTNU
E-mail: hedda.solbakken@ntnu.no Research interests: Syntax, morphology, nominal structure, dialect variation, grammatical gender, adjectives (inflection and distribution), second language acquisition, cross-linguistic influence. |
Ingrid Bondevik, PhD Candidate, NTNU
E-mail: ingrid.bondevik@ntnu.no
Research interests: Syntax, experimental syntax, syntactic variation, islands, that-trace effects, L1 acquisition, Norwegian, English.
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Michela Iacorossi, Phd Candidate NTNU & UiOE-mail: michela.iacorossi@iln.uio.no
Research interests: Multilingualism, language acquisition, language processing, cross-linguistic influence, Norwegian as a foreign/second/third language, Italian.
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Anastasia Kobzeva, PhD Candidate NTNU
Research interests: Language acquisition (first, bilingual, heritage), language corpora, structure of early grammars, computational modelling, Russian, English, Norwegian |
Laura Nogueira Sánchez, PhD Candidate NTNU![]() E-mail: laura.n.sanchez@ntnu.no
Research interests: Second and third language acquisition, multilingualism, verb placement, syntax, morphology, Catalan, Spanish, English, Norwegian.
Charlotte Sant, PhD Candidate UiT
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Bror-Magnus Sviland Strand, PhD Candidate UiT
E-mail: bror-magnus.s.strand@uit.no
Research interests: First language acquisition, syntax, (the acquisition and representation of) socio-linguistic registers, Scandinavian languages, bidialectism, morphosyntactic variation, finiteness and infinitive clauses.
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Helene Ruud Jensberg, PhD Candidate UiTE-mail: helene.r.jensberg@uit.no Research interests:Language acquisition (L1, L2, bilingual), cross-linguistic influence, transfer, syntax, English in Norwegian schools. |
Sunniva Briså Strætkvern, PhD Candidate NTNU
E-mail: sunniva.b.stratkvern@ntnu.no
Research interests: second and third language acquisition, multilingualism, L1-effects, V2 phenomena, adverbials, the syntax-discourse interface, French, English, Norwegian.
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Anya Vinichenko, PhD Candidate UiTE-mail: anna.vinichenko@uit.no Research interests: Psycho- and neurolinguistics; language acquisition and the mental representation of language; sentence processing; L1 and L2 variation; multilingualism, multilectalism and their extra-linguistic cognitive effects; Scandinavian languages and dialects. |
Ekaterina Zhakun, PhD Candidate UiT
E-mail: ekaterina.fedorova@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, Consonant Clusters, Syllable structure, language acquisition.
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Research interests: Second and third language acquisition, multilingualism, foreign language didactics, syntax and morphology, verb placement, prepositional case government, German, Norwegian
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Assistants
E-mail: jagoda.a.dyga@uit.no
Research interests: First language acquisition, multilingualism, phonology, consonants cluster, syllable structure
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Mahdis Jafari, Research Assistant UiT, PoLaR labE-mail: mahdis.jafari@uit.no Research interests: Language processing and psycho/neurolinguistics of receptive bilingualism. |