Current Research Projects
CODE-V: Capacity, Opportunity and Desire in Heritage Language Variation
Time period: 2023-2025
Funding: MSCA
PI: Selim Tiryakiol
INSPIRE: MultilINgual Sentence Processing In Real-timE – MSCA
Time period: 2022-2024
Funding: MSCA
PI: Judith Schlenter
CLIMA: Cross-linguistic Influence in Multilingual Acquisition
Time period: 2021-2026
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PIs: Anne Dahl, Kjersti Faldet Listhaug, Guro Busterud
HeLA: Heritage Language Acquisition: The qualitative nature of input and cross-linguistic influence – MSCA
Time period: 2022-2024
Funding: MSCA
PI: Brechje van Osch
ADIM: Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism
Time period: 2022-2024
Funding: EEA Norway grants
PI: Marit Westergaard
MuMin: Multilingual Minds: Grammar Interaction in Multilingual Acquisition
Time period: 2021-2025
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Natalia Mitrofanova
LESS: Linguistic Economy through transfer Source Selectivity
Time period: 2021-2024
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Jorge González Alonso
INPUT: Investigating Proxies for Understanding Trajectories: Heritage Language Maintenance and Child Second Language Acquisition in Refugee Contexts
Time period: 2021-2023
Funding: MSCA
PI: Nadine Kolb
GenVAC: Grammatical Gender in Norwegian Dialects: Variation, Acquisition and Change
Time period: 2020-2024
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Terje Lohndal
MultiLit: Multilectal Literacy in Education
Time period: 2020-2024
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Øystein A. Vangsnes
Experimental Approaches to Syntactic Optionality
Time period: 2020-2023
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Bjørn Lundquist
CLICK: Cross-Linguistic Influence of Competing Knowledge: Comparative Morphosyntactic Variations in Heritage Language Development
Time period: 2020-2022
Funding: MSCA
PI: Khadij Gharibi
HeLPiNG: Heritage-bilingual Linguistic Proficiency in the Native Grammar 
Time period: 2019-2023
Funding: Tromsø Research Foundation
PI: Jason Rothman
MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender 
Time period: 2019-2022
Funding: Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo)
PIs: Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard
SALT: Syllable Structure: Acquisition, Loss, Typology
Time period: 2017-2022
Funding: The Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grand
PI: Martin Krämer
Previous Research Projects (selection)
PATH: Preservation and Adaptation in Turkish as Heritage Language
Time period: 2019-2021
Funding: MSCA
PI: Deniz Tat
MIMS: Micro-variation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situation
Time period: 2016-2021
Funding: The Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grant
PI: Marit Westergaard
BLINK: Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development
Time period: 2018-2021
Funding: MSCA
PI: Fatih Bayram
Supervisors: Jason Rothman, Marit Westergaard
GenBilex: Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon
Time period: 2017 – 2020
Funding: MSCA
PI: Rachel Klassen
Supervisor: Marit Westergaard
LIA: Linguistic Infrustructure made Accessible
Time period: 2014-2019
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Tor A. Åfarli, Øystein A. Vagnsnes
A microcomparative study of ‘doubling’ in dialects of Meeteilon and Norwegian as a case of syntactic variation
Time period: 2015-2018.
Funding: Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education
PI: Tor A. Åfarli
DASAGO: North Sami Child Language Acquisition
Time period: 2011-2018
Funding: The Research Council of Norway
PI: Kristine Bentzen
DIVA: Disentangling Variation: A crosslinguistic investigation of bilingualism and non-standardization
Time period: 2017-2019
Funding: MSCA
PI: Evelina Leivada
Supervisor: Marit Westergaard
LAMBA: Latvian Language in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Tools, theories and applications
Time period: 2015-2017
Funding: EEA Norway grants
PIs: Dace Markus, Olga Urek
L3 English: L3 acquisition of English by Norwegian-Slavic adolescents
Time period: 2014-2016
Funding: Kompetanse for mangfold
PI: Marit Westergaard
NoRus: Bilingual Norwegian-Russian Children in North Norway: Language Acquisition and Language Use
Time period: 2012-2013
Funding: Tromsø Research Foundation
PI: Marit Westergaard
BIC: Bilingual Children in North Norway
Time period: 2011-2012
Funding: Tromsø Research Foundation
PI: Marit Westergaard
The VAMOS project: Variation in Acquisition: Multiple Object and Subject positions
Time period: 2008-2012
Funding: Tromsø Research Foundation
PI: Paula Fikkert
Post-docs: Merete Anderssen, Yulia Rodina