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Previous members and completed PhDs may be found here.
Research group leaders:
Marit Westergaard
Leader
Professor
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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Merete Anderssen
Deputy leader
Professor
E-mail: merete.anderssen@uit.no
Research interests: Monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition. The relationship between word order and information structure: subject shift, object shift and dative alternation. DP-structure, especially definiteness marking and possessives.
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Members:
Fatih Bayram
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Kristine Bentzen
Professor
E-mail: kristine.bentzen@uit.no
Research interests: Comparative syntax, dialect syntax, first language
acquisition, bilingualism, Scandinavian languages, Sami,
verb placement, object shift,
scrambling, information structure. |
Sigríður Björnsdóttir
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Ekaterina Zhakun
PhD student
E-mail: ekaterina.fedorova@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, Consonant Clusters, Syllable structure, language acquisition.
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Jorge González Alonso
Postdoc
E-mail: jorge.gonzalez.alonso@uit.no
Research interests: Second and third language acquisition, non-native language
processing, bilingualism, morphology, compound words, (acquisition, representation
and processing of) gender, English, Spanish, Norwegian.
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Eline Grønvoll
Research assistant
E-mail: eline.gronvoll@uit.no
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Zeynep Sancak Sert
Research assistant
E-mail: zeynep.s.sert@uit.no
Research interests: English acquisition and multilingualism.
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James David McDonald
Research assistant
E-mail: jmc005@post.uit.no
Research interests: Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Serbian), Germanic languages (Norwegian, German, Dutch), Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), morphology, syntax, corpus data.
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Gustavo Guajardo
Postdoc
E-mail: guztag@gmail.com
Research interests: Morphosyntactic variation and change, the relationship between child language acquisition and language change, syntactic theory, Tense/Aspect/Mood, Romance, Germanic, innate vs. non-innate aspects of language.
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Isabel Nadine Jensen
PhD student
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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Abutalebi Jubin
Professor II
E-mail: abutalebi.jubin@hsr.it
Research interests: Bilingualism, functional and structural neuroimaging, neurolinguistics, language control, aphasia, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, aging.
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Rachel Klassen
MSCA Fellow
E-mail: rachel.klassen@uit.no
Research interests: Second language acquisition, bilingualism, mental lexicon, language processing, grammatical gender, morphosyntax, experimental design, eye-tracking, Spanish, German, French.
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Nadine Kolb
Postdoc MiMS
E-mail: nadine.kolb@uit.no
Research interests: Child second and third language acquisition; heritage language bilingualism; linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in bi/multilingual language development; acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface; multilingual education; immersion education.
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Martin Krämer
Professor
E-mail: martin.kramer@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, microvariation
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Maki Kubota
Postdoc
E-mail: maki kubota@uit.no
Research interests: Bilingualism, child language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism, language attrition, executive control.
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Tanja Kupisch
Professor II
E-mail: Tanja.Kupisch@uni-konstanz.de
Research interests: Syntax, Phonology, first, second and third language acquisition,
heritage languages, Romance languages, Germanic languages, Turkish.
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Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Landaburu
Professor II
E-mail: jdunabeitia@nebrija.es
Research interests: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science of Language, Bilingual Word Processing, Emotion, Executive Functions, Visual Word Recognition, Literacy.
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Evelina Leivada
MSCA Fellow
E-mail: evelina.leivada@uit.no
Research interests: Language variation, monolingual and bilingual language acquisition, the ‘dialect’ design, atypical development, language and cognition in Specific Language Impairment, autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
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Terje Lohndal
Professor II
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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Björn Lundquist
Associate professor / Lab manager
E-mail: bjorn.lundquist@uit.no
Research interests: Syntax-Morphology interface, Syntax-Semantics interface, Lexical categories, Scandinavian micro-variation, Psycho-linguistics, Language acquisition.
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Natalia Mitrofanova
Researcher MiMS
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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Yulia Rodina
Associate Professor |
Jason Rothman
Professor
E-mail: jason.rothman@uit.no
Research interests: First, second, third & bilingual language acquisition, language processing, syntactic transfer, heritage language/language attrition, the language-cognition
interface(s), behavioural and neurolinguistic methodologies (EEG/ERP), formal syntactic
theory, comparative theory, epistemology.
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Ludovica Serratrice
Professor II
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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Bror Magnus Strand
PhD student
E-mail: bror-magnus.s.strand@uit.no
Research interests: First language acquisition, child language,
morphosyntactic variation, Scandinavian languages, bidialectism, linguistic registers |
Deniz Tat
Postdoc
E-mail: deniz.tat@uit.no
Research interests: Morphology and syntax, language variation and change, heritage language bilingualism, Turkish microvariation
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Olga Urek
Researcher SALT
E-mail: olga.urek@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, feature geometry, Baltic languages, acquisition, bilingualism
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Øystein Vangsnes
Professor
E-mail: oystein.vangsnes@uit.no
Research interests: Syntax, dialect studies, Nordic languages, NORMS.
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Stefanie Wulff
Professor II
E-mail: swulff@ufl.edu
Research interests: Quantitative corpus linguistics, construction grammar, variation in learner language, second language acquisition, student writing development.
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Previous members and completed PhDs may be found here.