{"id":9,"date":"2015-06-25T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2020-03-19T00:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:23:49","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left;width: 100%;margin-right: 50px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">AS OF JANUARY 2020, THIS WEBSITE IS NO LONGER UPDATED. PLEASE GO TO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/research\/acqva\">https:\/\/uit.no\/research\/acqva<\/a>\u00a0FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE AcqVa AURORA CENTRE.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #00617f\">Previous members and completed PhDs may be found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/previous-members-and-completed-phds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Research group leaders:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<table class=\"liste\" style=\"height: 189px;width: 855px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: middle\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/maritwestergaard\/\"> Marit Westergaard<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Marit\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Marit.jpg\" alt=\"Marit\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\"><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Leader<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:marit.westerggard@uit.no\">marit.westergaard@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> First, second\/third &amp; bilingual language acquisition,\u00a0heritage language\/language attrition, syntactic variation, diachronic change,com\u00adparative syntax, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian,\u00a0Russian, German.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41541&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\"> Merete Anderssen<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Merete\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/MereteA.jpg\" alt=\"Merete\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\"><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Deputy leader<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:merete.anderssen@uit.no\">merete.anderssen@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Members:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<table class=\"liste\" style=\"height: 1748px;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=585582&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">Fatih Bayram<\/a><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Fatih-lava\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2018\/09\/fatih-lava-e1537871148236.png\" alt=\"fatih-lava\" width=\"170\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>MSCA Postdoc<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"fatih.bayram@uit.no\">fatih.bayram@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/castl.uit.no\/index.php\/people\/userprofile\/kristine\">Kristine Bentzen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-853 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"unknown\" width=\"159\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown.jpeg 159w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/castl.uit.no\/index.php\/people\/userprofile\/kristine\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:kristine.bentzen@uit.no\">kristine.bentzen@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Comparative syntax, dialect syntax, first language<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">acquisition, bilingualism, Scandinavian languages, Sami,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><span style=\"color: #008080\">verb placement, object shift,<br \/>\nscrambling, information structure.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=517115&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Sigridur\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/SirriLAVA-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sigridur\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>PhD student<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:sigridur.m.bjornsdottir@uit.no\">sigridur.m.bjornsdottir@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Learnability, acquisition, variation, syntactic theory.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\"> Ekaterina Zhakun<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Kate\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2017\/11\/Kate.jpg\" alt=\"Kate\" width=\"150\" height=\"218\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>PhD student<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:ekaterina.fedorova@uit.no\">ekaterina.fedorova@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>:\u00a0Phonology, Optimality Theory, Consonant Clusters, Syllable structure, language acquisition.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">Jorge Gonz\u00e1lez Alonso<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2017\/02\/Jorge-Gonz\u00e1lez-Alonso-ISK-c.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge\" width=\"147\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Postdoc<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:jorge.gonzalez.alonso@uit.no\">jorge.gonzalez.alonso@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Second and third language acquisition, non-native language <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">processing, bilingualism, morphology, compound words, (acquisition, representation <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">and <\/span><span style=\"color: #008080\">processing of) gender, English, Spanish, Norwegian.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">Eline Gr\u00f8nvoll<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/02\/elinegronvoll.jpg\" alt=\"Eline\" width=\"147\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:eline.gronvoll@uit.no\">eline.gronvoll@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=649275&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">Zeynep Sancak Sert<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2522 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep.jpg 2311w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/zeynep-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:zeynep.s.sert@uit.no\">zeynep.s.sert@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>English acquisition and multilingualism.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=521346&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\">James David McDonald<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2536 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald.jpeg 3024w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/11\/JamesMcDonald-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research assistant<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:jmc005@post.uit.no\">jmc005@post.uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Slavic languages (Russian, Czech, Serbian), Germanic languages (Norwegian, German, Dutch), Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), morphology, syntax, corpus data.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\">Gustavo Guajardo<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2019\/01\/me.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo\" width=\"147\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/en.uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=473118&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Postdoc<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:guztag@gmail.com\">guztag@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=530809&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isabel Nadine Jensen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=530809&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Isabel\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2017\/09\/Isabel.jpg\" alt=\"Isabel\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>PhD student<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:isabel.n.jensen@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">isabel.n.jensen@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">Second and third language acquisition, multilingualism, acquisition of morphosyntax, the Bottleneck Hypothesis.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unisr.it\/en\/docenti\/a\/abutalebi-jubin\">Abutalebi Jubin<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/09\/abutalebi-jubin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/09\/abutalebi-jubin.jpg\" alt=\"tanja_kupisch\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>Professor II<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unisr.it\/en\/docenti\/a\/abutalebi-jubin\">Centre for Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unisr.it\/en\/homepage\">University Vita-Salute San Raffaele<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:abutalebi.jubin@hsr.it\">abutalebi.jubin@hsr.it<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Bilingualism, functional and structural neuroimaging, neurolinguistics, language control, aphasia, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, aging.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelklassen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Klassen<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelklassen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Rachel\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Rachel-Klassen-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>MSCA Fellow<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:rachel.klassen@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rachel.klassen@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Second language acquisition, bilingualism, mental lexicon, language processing, grammatical gender, morphosyntax, experimental design, eye-tracking, Spanish, German, French.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=606061&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nadine Kolb<\/a><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Nadine\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2018\/11\/Nadine_Kolb.jpg\" alt=\"Nadine\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Postdoc <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/mims\/\">MiMS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>:<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:nadine.kolb@uit.no\">\u00a0nadine.kolb@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41560&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Kr\u00e4mer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41560&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Martin\" src=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/Content\/320666\/attr=CD7FC3AFEA6CF394E040F28156A42057\/Martin-Kr-mer.jpg\" alt=\"Martin\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>Professor<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:martin.kramer@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">martin.kramer@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Phonology, Optimality Theory, microvariation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/maki-kubota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maki Kubota<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/maki-kubota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Martin\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/08\/maki-kubota.jpg\" alt=\"Martin\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>Postdoc<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:maki.kubota@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maki kubota@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Bilingualism, child language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism, language attrition, executive control.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/ling.uni-konstanz.de\/pages\/home\/kupisch\/\">Tanja Kupisch<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/tanja_kupisch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/tanja_kupisch-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"tanja_kupisch\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>Professor II<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/ling.uni-konstanz.de\/pages\/romanistik\/sprache\/\">Romanistische Sprachwissenschaft<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-konstanz.de\">Universit\u00e4t Konstanz<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:Tanja.Kupisch@uni-konstanz.de\">Tanja.Kupisch@uni-konstanz.de<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Syntax, Phonology, first, second and third language acquisition, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">heritage languages, Romance languages, Germanic languages, Turkish.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/jonandoni.com\/\">Jon Andoni Du\u00f1abeitia Landaburu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/08\/jon-andoni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/08\/jon-andoni.jpg\" alt=\"jon andoni dunabeitia landaburu\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>Professor II<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nebrija.com\/en\/\">Universidad Nebrija<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:jdunabeitia@nebrija.es\">jdunabeitia@nebrija.es<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science of Language, Bilingual Word Processing, Emotion, Executive Functions, Visual Word Recognition, Literacy. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evelinaleivada.com\">Evelina Leivada<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" title=\"Evelina\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/EL-photo-site-300x300.png\" alt=\"Evelina\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>MSCA Fellow<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:evelina.leivada@uit.no\">evelina.leivada@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Language variation, monolingual and bilingual language acquisition, the \u2018dialect\u2019 design, atypical development, language and cognition in Specific Language Impairment, autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ntnu.edu\/employees\/terje.lohndal\">Terje\u00a0Lohndal<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" title=\"terje.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/innsidawls.itea.ntnu.no\/user-profile-service\/rest\/files\/3fceda55-d894-3a60-95f6-6b58e1aff52d\" alt=\"Terje\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor II<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ntnu.no\/isl\">Institutt for spr\u00e5k og litteratur, NTNU<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:terje.lohndal@ntnu.no\">terje.lohndal@ntnu.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Syntax, semantics, morphology,\u00a0interfaces, variation,\u00a0heritage languages\/language attrition,\u00a0first, second and bilingual language acquisition, English, Norwegian.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=43531&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\"> Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bjorn.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2016\/06\/Bj\u00f8rn.jpg\" alt=\"Bjorn\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Associate professor \/ Lab manager<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:bjorn.lundquist@uit.no\">bjorn.lundquist@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Syntax-Morphology interface, Syntax-Semantics interface, Lexical categories, Scandinavian micro-variation, Psycho-linguistics, Language acquisition.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=311159&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"> Natalia Mitrofanova<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Natalia\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Natalia-Mitrofanova.jpg\" alt=\"Natalia\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/mims\/\">MiMS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:natalia.mitrofanova@uit.no\">natalia.mitrofanova@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=57107&amp;p_dimension_id=210121\"> Yulia Rodina<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-855 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"unknown-2\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Associate Professor<br \/>\nE-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:yulia.rodina@uit.no\">yulia.rodina@uit.no<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests: <\/strong>Language acquisition (first, second, third, bilingual), heritage languages,\u00a0multilingualism and education, multilingual language assessment,\u00a0Norwegian, Russian, English.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/celm\/about\/staff\/J-Rothman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Rothman<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/celm\/about\/staff\/J-Rothman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/jason-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"jason\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"jason.rothman@uit.no\">jason.rothman@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>First, second, third &amp; bilingual language acquisition, language processing,\u00a0syntactic transfer, heritage language\/language attrition, the language-cognition<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">interface(s),\u00a0behavioural\u00a0and\u00a0neurolinguistic methodologies (EEG\/ERP), formal syntactic <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\">theory, comparative theory, epistemology.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/Psychology\/About\/staff\/l-serratrice.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ludovica Serratrice<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/Psychology\/About\/staff\/l-serratrice.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/08\/LudoLAVAAcqVA.jpg\" alt=\"ludo\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor II<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\">University of Reading<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk\">l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=421664&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bror Magnus Strand<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bror.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/Content\/453494\/attr=2BE351B02468722DE0539003F60AAB40\/Strand-Bror-Magnus-Sviland---Face--003-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>PhD student<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a class=\"o365button ms-font-m\" style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:bror-magnus.s.strand@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bror-magnus.s.strand@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:<\/strong> First language acquisition, child language,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080\"> morphosyntactic variation, Scandinavian languages, bidialectism, linguistic registers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deniz Tat<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bror.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/09\/deniz-tat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Postdoc<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a class=\"o365button ms-font-m\" style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:deniz.tat@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deniz.tat@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Morphology and syntax, language variation and change, heritage language bilingualism, Turkish microvariation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=258672&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olga Urek<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Olga\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2016\/05\/Olga-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/blogg.uit.no\/mkr001\/\">SALT<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a class=\"o365button ms-font-m\" style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:olga.urek@uit.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">olga.urek@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:<\/strong>\u00a0Phonology, Optimality Theory, feature geometry, Baltic languages, acquisition, bilingualism<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41546&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\">\u00d8ystein Vangsnes<\/a><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=41546&amp;p_dimension_id=88149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"oystein.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2015\/06\/\u00d8YSTEIN-VANGSNES-P13A9587-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"Oystein\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:oystein.vangsnes@uit.no\">oystein.vangsnes@uit.no<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Syntax, dialect studies, Nordic languages, NORMS.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<td>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008080\"><a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lingtechcomm.unt.edu\/~swulff\/\">Stefanie Wulff<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"marta.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/262\/2019\/08\/Steffi-Wulff.png\" alt=\"Marta\" width=\"134\" height=\"173\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Professor II<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: <a style=\"color: #008080\" href=\"mailto:swulff@ufl.edu\">swulff@ufl.edu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Quantitative corpus linguistics, construction grammar, variation in learner language, second language acquisition, student writing development.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #00617f\">Previous members and completed PhDs may be found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/lava\/previous-members-and-completed-phds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS OF JANUARY 2020, THIS WEBSITE IS NO LONGER UPDATED. 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