Current Research Projects
HeLPiNG: Heritage-bilingual Linguistic Proficiency in their Native Grammar 
Time period: 2019-2023
Funding: Tromsø Research Foundation
PI: Jason Rothman
PATH: Preservation and Adaptation in Turkish as Heritage Language
Time period: 2019-2021
Funding: MSCA
PI: Deniz Tat
MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender 
Time period: 2019-2020.
Funding: Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo).
PIs: Terje Lohndal, Marit Westergaard
BLINK: Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development
Time period: 2018-2020
Funding: MSCA
PI: Fatih Bayram
Supervisors: Jason Rothman, Marit Westergaard
GenBilex: Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon
Time period: August 1, 2017 – March 7, 2020
Funding: MSCA
PI: Rachel Klassen
Supervisor: Marit Westergaard
SALT: Syllable Structure: Acquisition, Loss, Typology 
Time period: 2017-2020
Funding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grand
PI: Martin Krämer
MIMS: Micro-variation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situation
Time period: 2016-2020
Funding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grant
PI: Marit Westergaard
LIA: Linguistic Infrastructure made Accessible
Time period: 2014-2019
Funding: Research Council of Norway Infrastructure Grant
Project manager: Janne Bondi Johannessen
PIs: Tor A. Åfarli, Øystein A. Vangsnes
Individual PhD Projects
Previous Research Projects (selection)
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: 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 grant
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
