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Previous members and completed PhDs may be found here.
Research group leaders:
Marit WestergaardLeader
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 AnderssenDeputy 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
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Sigríður Björnsdóttir
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Ekaterina ZhakunPhD 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
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Eline Grønvoll
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Zeynep Sancak Sert
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James David McDonald
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Gustavo Guajardo
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Isabel Nadine JensenPhD 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 JubinProfessor 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 KlassenMSCA 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 KolbPostdoc 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 KrämerProfessor
E-mail: martin.kramer@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, microvariation
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Maki KubotaPostdoc
E-mail: maki kubota@uit.no
Research interests: Bilingualism, child language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism, language attrition, executive control.
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Tanja KupischProfessor 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 LandaburuProfessor 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 LeivadaMSCA 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 LohndalProfessor 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 LundquistAssociate 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 MitrofanovaResearcher 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 RodinaAssociate Professor |
Jason RothmanProfessor
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 SerratriceProfessor 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 StrandPhD student
E-mail: bror-magnus.s.strand@uit.no
Research interests: First language acquisition, child language,
morphosyntactic variation, Scandinavian languages, bidialectism, linguistic registers |
Deniz TatPostdoc
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 UrekResearcher SALT
E-mail: olga.urek@uit.no
Research interests: Phonology, Optimality Theory, feature geometry, Baltic languages, acquisition, bilingualism
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Øystein VangsnesProfessor
E-mail: oystein.vangsnes@uit.no
Research interests: Syntax, dialect studies, Nordic languages, NORMS.
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Stefanie WulffProfessor 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.