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2025<\/span><\/h2>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited): Multilingual Acquisition and Attrition in Small Steps. NorPol \/ AcqCESS Workshop: Bidirectional \u00a0Cross-linguistic Effects of Structural Similarity in Child Multilingualism<\/em>. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, October 20.<\/p>\n

D\u0142ugosz, Kamil, Anna Olszewska, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Morphophonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in child L2 Polish. NorPol \/ AcqCESS Workshop: Bidirectional \u00a0Cross-linguistic Effects of Structural Similarity in Child Multilingualism.<\/em> Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, October 20.<\/p>\n

Hrebenshchykova, Oleksandra, Kamil D\u0142ugosz, Sergey Minor, Marit Westergaard & Natalia Mitrofanova. Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence and the role of age: morphological case in L1 Ukrainian\u2013L2 Polish children. NorPol \/ AcqCESS Workshop: Bidirectional \u00a0Cross-linguistic Effects of Structural Similarity in Child Multilingualism.<\/em> Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, October 20.<\/p>\n

Minor, Sergey, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Kamil D\u0142ugosz, Pavel Caha, Anna Olszewska, Marit Westergaard & Natalia Mitrofanova. Grammatical adaptation in verbal aspect: Ukrainian children acquiring Polish and Czech. NorPol \/ AcqCESS Workshop: Bidirectional \u00a0Cross-linguistic Effects of Structural Similarity in Child Multilingualism.<\/em> Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, October 20.<\/p>\n

Ewa Haman, Ianthi Tsimpli & Marit Westergaard. Multilingualism in neurotypical and neurodivergent children and adults. Building Bridges 2025: 36th Annual Meeting of Academia Europaea<\/a>. Barcelona, October 15-17.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Natalia Mitrofanova & Roumyana Slabakova. Rethinking L3 Development: Is It Time to Move Beyond Full Transfer Models? 9th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, October 3-4.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Serge Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb & Marit Westergaard. The Role of Heritage and Societal Languages in L3 Aspect Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking. 9th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. <\/i>Universidad Nebrija. Madrid, October 2-4.<\/p>\n

Bahrani, Bentolhoda, Natalia Mitrofanova, Marit Westergaard & Sergey Minor. Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic-Norwegian Adolescents. 9th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. <\/i>Universidad Nebrija. Madrid, October 2-4.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Englert, Marc Meisezahl, Marit Westergaard & Tanja Kupisch. V2 transfer in ab-initio L3 acquisition. \u00a09th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. <\/i>Universidad Nebrija. Madrid, October 2-4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marit Westergaard & Judith Schlenter. The role of structural similarity in L3\/Ln comprehension. \u00a09th Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. <\/i>Universidad Nebrija. Madrid, October 2-4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Sergey Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb & Marit Westergaard. The role of heritage and societal languages in L3 aspect processing: Evidence from eye-tracking. Child Language Symposium<\/a>, University of Reading, September 8-10.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Sergey Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb & Marit Westergaard. The role of heritage and societal languages in L3 aspect processing: Evidence from eye-tracking. AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing)<\/a>. Charles University, Prague, September 4-6.<\/p>\n

Englert, Charlotte, Marc Meisezahl, Marit Westergaard & Tanja Kupisch. On V2 transfer in a novel third language. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

Schlenter, Judith & Marit Westergaard. When the L1 takes the lead in L3\/Ln comprehension. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina, Fritz G\u00fcnther, <\/span>Camilla Masullo, Jon Andoni Du\u00f1abeitia, Marit Westergaard & Jason Rothman. The unclear impact of language similarity on cognitive adaptations to bilingualism. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

van Osch, Brechje A., Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Merete Brendeford Anderssen & Marit Westergaard. Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors a\ufb00ecting the production and processing of adverb placement in L3 Spanish and French in Norwegian-English bilingual high school students. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

van Osch, Brechje A., Rosalinde Stadt, Nadine Kolb, Alicia Luque, Merete Brendeford Anderssen & Marit Westergaard. Cross-linguistic influence in early stages of L3 French and L3 German: An empirical study on Dutch-English bilinguals in the Netherlands. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

Bahrani, Bentolhoda M., Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova & Sergey Minor. Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic Norwegian Adolescents. EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

Slabakova, Roumyana, Chloe Castle, Justyna Gruszecka, Marta Velnic, Marit Westergaard & Magdalena Wrembel. Does accented speech activate L1 and L2 representations in a third language? EuroSLA 34 (The 34th Conference of the European Second Language Association<\/a>), Troms\u00f8, June 25-28.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Title TBA. Workshop on Understanding Multilingual Learning and Processing.<\/em> Haifa, June 2025. CANCELED.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Chloe Castle. Are bilinguals better than monolinguals at learning further languages? The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025<\/a>, Edinburgh, March 24-25.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina, Esti Blanco-Elorrieta<\/span>, Lara Kelly-Iturriaga<\/span>, Camilla Masullo, Marit Westergaard & <\/span>Jason Rothman. Exploring the role of language distance in bilingual cognition. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025<\/a>, Edinburgh, March 24-25.<\/p>\n

Wrembel, Magdalena, Marit Westergaard, Roumyana Slabakova, Marta Velnic, Chloe Castle & Justyna Gruszacka. How grammatical do I sound when I am accented? The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025<\/a>, Edinburgh, March 24-25.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova, Kamil D\u0142ugosz, Sergey Minor & Marit Westergaard. Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence and the Effect of Age: Ukrainian Refugee Children in Poland. Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025<\/a>, Edinburgh, March 24-25.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. V2 or not V2 \u2013 that is the question: Word Order Variation in Norwegian. Guest lecture, Uniwersytet Szczeci\u0144ski, Szczecin, March 11.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Sergey Minor, Christina Athanasiadi, Nadine Kolb & Marit Westergaard. The role of heritage languages in L3 aspect processing: evidence from eye-tracking. 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, March 4-7.<\/p>\n

2024<\/span><\/h2>\n

Westergaard, Marit (with Natalia Mitrofanova, Sergey Minor, Nadine Kolb & Christina Athanasiadi). Processing of Verbal Aspect in L3 English by German-Russian and German-Greek bilinguals: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. DFG Workshop on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax<\/a>. University of Wuppertal, December 12-13, 2024.<\/p>\n

Castle, Chloe, Anna Ska\u0142ba & Marit Westergaard: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the L3: Do dominance, recency, and property play a role? Australian Linguistic Society 2024<\/a>. Australian National University, Canberra, November 26-29.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Kamil D\u0142ugosz, Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova & Natalia Mitrofanova. The Effect of Structural Similarity in Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence: Case and Gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2 learners. Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 17<\/a>, Brno, November 20-22.<\/p>\n

Urek, Olga & Marit Westergaard. Gender categorisation of ambiguously cued novel nouns in Russian: Evidence from an online experimental study.\u00a0Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 17<\/a>, Brno, November 20-22.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (with Chloe Castle and Natalia Mitrofanova). L3 <\/span>acquisition <\/span>of an<\/span> artificial language<\/span>: Crosslinguistic influence and structural similarity. CLIMA workshop<\/em>, Oslo, September 26-27.<\/span><\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Chloe Castle, Isabel Jensen & Natalia Mitrofanova. Investigating CLI in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages. The 13th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism<\/a>. Groningen, August 28-31.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Sensitivity to microvariation in gender assignment to ambiguous nouns in Russian: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual native speakers. Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages (PsychoSlav) Conference<\/a>. Wroc\u0142aw, July 9-11.<\/p>\n

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Schlenter, Judith & Marit Westergaard. When the dative becomes less reliable \u2013 L1 attrition in a multilingual context. EuroSLA 33<\/a>, Montpellier, July 3-6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Chloe Castle & Natalia Mitrofanova. Investigating CLI in multilingual acquisition through an artificial language. EuroSLA 33<\/a>, Montpellier, July 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Serge Minor, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. Poster. EuroSLA 33<\/a>, Montpellier, July 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Castel, Chloe, Anna Ska\u0142ba, Marit Westergaard. Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role? Poster. EuroSLA 33<\/a>, Montpellier, July 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Minor, Serge, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. The interaction of linguistic and visual cues for the processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German bilinguals: An eye tracking study. Poster. EuroSLA 33<\/a>, Montpellier, July 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

van Osch, Brechje, Nadine Kolb, Rosalinde Stadt, Alicia Luque, Merete Anderssen & Marit Westergaard. Understanding L3 Acquisition Through the Lens of Cross-Linguistic Influence: Integrating Online and Offline Measures to Assess the Processing of Adverb Placement Across Beginner L3 Learners of French and German in the Netherlands. Variation and Language Processing 6<\/em><\/a>, Vigo, June 26-28.<\/p>\n

Castle, Chloe, Anna Ska\u0142ba & Marit Westergaard. Cross-linguistic influence in multilinguals: Do dominance and recency play a role? L3 workshop: Multilingual Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. Tokyo, May 17-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

van Osch, Brechje, Nadine Kolb, Rosalinde Stadt, Alicia Luque, Merete Anderssen & Marit Westergaard. Cross-Linguistic Influence from L2 English in Beginner Learners of French and German as an L3 in the Netherlands: Comparing Offline Knowledge and Online Processing of Adverb Placement. L3 workshop: Multilingual Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. Tokyo, May 17-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Sergey Minor, Nadine Kolb & Marit Westergaard. L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. <\/span>Tokyo, May 17-19. L3 workshop: Multilingual Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>. Tokyo, May 17-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Heritage language bilingualism: Acquisition, Variation & Possible Advantages. Guest lecture, University of Gothenburg, April 23.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical concepts, methodological considerations, and some empirical evidence. Guest lecture, University of Gothenburg, April 28.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Facilitative cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism: The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires. DFG Workshop on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax<\/a>. University of Wuppertal, January 31-February 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

2023<\/span><\/h2>\n

Rodina, Yulia, Alexandra Bogoyavlenskaya, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Lexical development in Russian heritage language across different national contexts: Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom. MultiLing Closing Conference<\/a>, University of Oslo, October 18-20.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Merete Anderssen, Helene Jensberg, Terje Lohndal & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist. Embedded V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language. Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas 14<\/a>, Flensburg, October 5-7.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). \u2018Amerikanorsk\u2019 and other heritage languages: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition. The Einar Haugen Annual Lecture<\/a>, MultiLing, University of Oslo, September 26.<\/p>\n

Castle, Chloe, Natalia Mitrofanova, Isabel N. Jensen & Marit Westergaard. Investigating CLI in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages. Pozna\u0144 <\/a><\/span>Linguistic<\/a> Meeting (PLM)<\/a>, Pozna\u0144, September 13-15.<\/span><\/p>\n

Castle, Chloe, Anna Ska\u0142ba & Marit Westergaard. Cross Linguistic Influence in multilinguals: Do dominance and recency play a role? Pozna\u0144 <\/a><\/span>Linguistic<\/a> Meeting (PLM)<\/a>, Pozna\u0144, September 13-15.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schlenter, Judith & Marit Westergaard. Real-time processing of ditransitive events in German: An eye-tracking study (poster). Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP 2023)<\/a>, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, San Sebasti\u00e1n, August 31-September 2.<\/p>\n

Minor, Serge, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Visual Event Representations Facilitate the Processing of Grammatical Case by Russian-German Bilingual Children. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP 2023)<\/a>, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, San Sebasti\u00e1n, August 31-September 2.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Natalia Mitrofanova (Invited). Crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical considerations and some empirical data. L3 workshop, University of Uppsala, June 15-16.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia & Marit Westergaard (Invited). Research design in L3 studies: An overview and some examples. L3 workshop, \u00a0University of Uppsala, June 15-16.<\/p>\n

Rodina, Yulia, Alexandra Bogoyavlenskaya, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Lexical development in Russian heritage language across different national contexts: Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Heritage Languages at the Crossroads (HL@Cross): cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies.<\/em> <\/a>Istanbul, May 29-30.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (with Natalia Mitrofanova & Sergey Minor) (Invited). The interaction of linguistic and visual stimuli for the processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German bilinguals: An eyetracking study. DFG Workshop on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax<\/a>.<\/em> University of Wuppertal, May 24-26.<\/span><\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Heritage languages (Invited). Workshop on\u00a0comparing and combining approaches to high-contact varieties.<\/em> University of Haifa, May 2-4.<\/p>\n

2022<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Mitrofaniva, Natalia, Evelina Leivada & Marit Westergaard. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning. Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>, <\/i><\/em>Kings College London, October 22-23.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Gustavo Guajardo, Katharina Bernstein & Marit Westergaard. Cross-linguistic influence in L3 and L2 German. Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>, <\/i><\/em>Kings College London, October 22-23.<\/p>\n

Jensen, Isabel N. & Marit Westergaard.\u00a0Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition. Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing & Use<\/a>, <\/i>Kings College London, October 22-23 (poster).<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (w\/Isabel N. Jensen).\u00a0 Comparing lexical and syntactic similarity in L3 acquisition: Norwegian-English bilinguals learning an artificial language. DFG Workshop on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax<\/a>.<\/em> University of Wuppertal, October 5-7.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova & Marit Westergaard. Subtractive language groups design \u2013 a new standard in L3A research. Poznan Linguistic Meeting<\/a>,<\/em> September 8-10.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Evelina Leivada & Marit Westergaard. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning. Poznan Linguistic Meeting<\/a>,<\/em> September 8-10.<\/p>\n

Klassen, Rachel, Nadine Kolb, Holger Hopp & Marit Westergaard. Syntactic and lexical gender congruency in native Spanish speakers acquiring L2 German. Poznan Linguistic Meeting<\/a><\/em>, September 8-10.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to microvariation in multilingualism.<\/em> Invited talk at Summer school on child and adult multilingualism<\/a>,<\/em> Bergische Universt\u00e4t Wuppertal, September 5-9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jensen, Isabel N. & Marit Westergaard. Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition. <\/i>International Symposium of Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children <\/a><\/em>(ISBPAC), Troms\u00f8, August 4-5 (poster).<\/p>\n

Klassen, Rachel, Nadine Kolb, Holger Hopp & Marit Westergaard. Syntactic and lexical gender congruency in native Spanish speakers acquiring L2 German. International Symposium of Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children <\/a>(ISBPAC), <\/em>Troms\u00f8, August 4-5 (poster).<\/p>\n

Hopp, Holger & Marit Westergaard (w\/Rachel Klassen & Nadine Kolb). Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1\u2013L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish\u2013L2 German speakers.<\/em> MultiGender final event, Eng\u00f8 G\u00e5rd, May 30-June 3.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Russian heritage language speakers in Germany: A study on child L3 acquisition. Heritage Languages Around the World (HLAW)<\/a>,<\/em> Lisbon, May 18-20.<\/p>\n

Jensen, Isabel N. & Marit Westergaard. Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)<\/a><\/em>, Trondheim, May 12-14.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Evelina Leivada & Marit Westergaard. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)<\/a><\/em>, Trondheim, May 12-14.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Isabel N. Jensen. Learning a miniature artificial language as an L3: Exploring the effect of similarity for crosslinguistic influence.<\/em> Crosslingiustic Influence in Language Acquisition (CLIMA) kick-off, NTNU, March 10-11.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Invited. Multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence as coactivation.<\/em> Institute for Advanced Studies Invited Lecture Series in Bilingualism and Multilingualism<\/em><\/a>, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, March 3. Recording available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Anne Dahl & Magdalena Wrembel. Polsk\/norsk\/engelsk flerspr\u00e5klighet: Forskjeller mellom andre-og tredjespr\u00e5kstilegnelse. Den niende forskningskonferansen om norsk som andrespr\u00e5k<\/a><\/em>, H\u00f8gskolen i \u00d8stfold, February 3-4.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to microvariation in multilingualism: Crosslinguistic Influence as co-activation. DFG Workshop on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax.<\/em> University of Wuppertal, January 13-14.<\/p>\n

2021<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Kolb, Nadine, Gustavo Guajardo & Marit Westergaard. A longitudinal study on cross-linguistic influence in L3 German. New Approaches to Bilingualism and Multilingualism and Language Learning\/Teaching Conference (BiMuLT)<\/a><\/em>, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 20-21.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova & Marit Westergaard. S<\/em>ubtractive language groups design \u2013 a new standard in L3A research. New Approaches to Bilingualism and Multilingualism and Language Learning\/Teaching Conference (BiMuLT)<\/a><\/em>, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 20-21.<\/div>\n
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Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Marit Westergaard. Exploring the effect of similarity in third language acquisition of a miniature artificial language.<\/em> New Approaches to Bilingualism and Multilingualism and Language Learning\/Teaching Conference (BiMuLT)<\/a>, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 20-21.<\/p>\n

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Westergaard, Marit & Terje Lohndal. Janne & The MultiGender Project.<\/em> Memorial Seminar for Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo, October 11-12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Invited. Full Transfer Potential in L3 acquisition: CLI as Co-activation. Virtual Workshop on L3 Development After the Initial State<\/a>.<\/em> Organized by BU, MIT and University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, October 1-2 (with Natalia Mitrofanova).<\/div>\n
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Kolb, Nadine & Marit Westergaard. L3 development: A longitudinal study on L3 German in Norway. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB13), Thematic session: Going beyond the initial stages in L3\/Ln acquisition research<\/em>, organized by Eloi Puig-Mayenco & Jennifer Cabrelli, Warsaw, July 10-14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kolb, Nadine & Marit Westergaard. Cross-linguistic influence at early stages of L3 German: An empirical study on morpho-syntactic properties. EuroSLA 30<\/a>,<\/em> Barcelona, June 30 – July 3.<\/div>\n

Klassen, Rachel, Nadine Kolb, Holger Hopp & Marit Westergaard. I<\/em>nteractions between syntactic and lexical gender congruency in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers. Conference on Multilingualism (COM2021)<\/em>, Universit\u00e4t Konstanz, June 23-25.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Multilingual Language Acquisition and Crosslinguistic Influence as Co-activation. Invited plenary at 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics<\/a><\/em>, Oslo, June 14-18, 2021.<\/div>\n
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Westergaard, Marit. Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations and the Importance of Property-by-Property Acquisition. Invited plenary at GALANA 9<\/a><\/em>, Reykjavik, May 7-9, 2021.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine & Marit Westergaard. Acquiring German as a third language: An empirical study on cross-linguistic influence at early stages (poster). GALANA 9<\/a><\/em>, Reykjavik, May 7-9, 2021.<\/div>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Crosslinguistic influence and overcorrection in bilingual acquisition and attrition: The case of Norwegian heritage language. Invited speaker at Workshop on Heritage Languages<\/em>, University of Z\u00fcrich, April 23-24, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2020<\/span><\/h2>\n

Evelina Leivada, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. Exploring bilingual effects on cognition through grammatical illusions. International Symposium on Cognition, Communication, Computation, and Perception, Cross-Language Interplay in a Bilingual Mind<\/a>. Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience<\/a>,<\/em> Higher School of Economics, Moscow, December.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine & Marit Westergaard. Investigating Early Stages of L3 Acquisition (poster). Conference on Multilingualism 2020 (COM2020)<\/a><\/em>. University of Reading, June 23-25.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Grammatical gender in Heritage Russian across five countries: External factors, sensitivity to cues and cross-linguistic influence. Invited plenary at Microcontact Workshop on Heritage Language Syntax<\/a><\/em>, Utrecht University, October 12-16, 2020.<\/p>\n

2019<\/span><\/h2>\n

Urek, Olga, Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard. Tilordning av grammatisk genus til nonce-substantiv p\u00e5 grunnlag av fonologiske egenskaper. MONS 18<\/a>, Trondheim, November 27-29.<\/p>\n

Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. \u201cMin bok og boka mi\u201d: Genus og deklinasjonsklasse i endring. MONS 18<\/a>, Trondheim, November 27-29.<\/p>\n

\u00d8ystein Vangsnes & Marit Westergaard. \u201cKa LIA fort\u00e6ll?\u201d Eit gjensyn med kv-sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l i norske dialektar.\u00a0 Final seminar LIA project<\/a>,\u00a0 Trondheim, November 26-27.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Terje Lohndal & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist:\u00a0V2 and non-V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: Evidence for cross-linguistic influence. AcqVA Workshop on V2 phenomena<\/a>, Oslo, October 22-23.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. V2\u00a0in L3 English: A Study on Russian heritage speakers in Germany. AcqVA Workshop on V2 phenomena<\/a>, Oslo, October 22-23.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Terje Lohndal & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist:\u00a0V2 and non-V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: Evidence for cross-linguistic influence. WILA 10<\/a>, Halden, October 10-12.<\/p>\n

Meir, Natalia, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard:\u00a0Effects of structural similarity on learner sensitivity to gender cues: The case of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children. GALA 14<\/a>, Milan, September 12-14.<\/p>\n

Jensen, Isabel, Merete Anderssen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova & Marit Westergaard: Does L1 Transfer Explain Everything in L2 Acquisition? GALA 14<\/a>, Milan, September 12-14.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard: Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 acquisition: German-Russian bilinguals acquiring English. GALA 14<\/a>, Milan, September 12-14.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Irina Sekerina, Antje Sauermann, Natalia Gagarina & Marit Westergaard: Language-Specific Morphology Facilitates Predictive Use of Case Marking in Bilingual Children (poster). AMLaP 25<\/a>, National Research University Higher School of Economics, September 6-8.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia & Marit Westergaard: Typological or structural transfer in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning. AMLaP 25<\/a>, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, September 6-8.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard. The impact of bilingualism in processing cognitive illusions. Capturing and Quantifying Individual Differences in Bilingualism<\/a>, Troms\u00f8, September 2-3.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Roumyana Slabakova. Full transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition: Wholesale or property by property? EuroSLA 29<\/a>, Lund, August 28-31.<\/p>\n

Slabakova, Roumyana, Isabel Jensen, Merete Anderssen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: L1 transfer in early L2 acquisition across linguistic modules. EuroSLA 29<\/a>, Lund, August 28-31.<\/p>\n

Kolb, Nadine, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard: Transfer of morpho-syntactic properties in third language acquisition: An empirical study on German-Russian bilinguals acquiring L3 English. EuroSLA 29<\/a>, Lund, August 28-31.<\/p>\n

Kupisch, Tanja, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard: The role of formal and semantic gender cues in the acquisition of German as an early L2 by L1 Russian children. EuroSLA 29<\/a>, Lund, August 28-31.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina & Marit Westergaard. A bilingual advantage in the processing of grammatical illusions. Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference<\/a>, Palma de Mallorca, June 26-28.<\/p>\n

Sekerina, Irina, Natalia Mitrofanova, Antje Sauermann & Marit Westergaard. Crosslinguistic Transfer of Case Cues in Anticipating Non-Canonical Word Orders. International Symposium of Bilingualism<\/a>, University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 23-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kupisch, Tanja, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard. The acquisition of grammatical gender cues by German-Russian bilingual children. International Symposium of Bilingualism<\/a>, University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 23-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rodina, Yulia, Natalia Mitrofanova, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard. Sensitivity to morphophonological gender cues in heritage Russian. International Symposium of Bilingualism<\/a>, University of Alberta, Edmonton, June 23-28.<\/span><\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Roumyana Slabakova: Full transfer in L3A: Wholesale or property-by-property? L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use<\/a>. Universit\u00e4t Konstanz, June 7-8.<\/p>\n

Slabakova, Roumyana, Merete Anderssen, Isabel N. Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: Facilitation in L3 Acquisition across linguistic modules. L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use<\/a>. Universit\u00e4t Konstanz, June 7-8.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Terje Lohndal & Bj\u00f8rn Lundquist. Cross-linguistic Influence in Norwegian Heritage Language: The case of variable V2. Workshop on Cross-linguistic influence, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, May 20-21.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina & Olga Urek (Invited). Sensitivity to morphophonological gender cues in monolingual Russian and heritage Russian children. Conference on Russian Language in a Multilingual World<\/a>. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, April 10-12.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations: The importance of linguistic proximity and property-by-property acquisition. Centre for Research on Bilingualism<\/a>, Stockholm University, March 5.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (Invited). Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition.<\/a> MultiLing<\/a>, University of Oslo, February 20.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit, Terje Lohndal & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist. Variable V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language. Secrets of Success. Or: How to preserve a V2 order?<\/a> University of Oslo, January 10-11.<\/p>\n

2018<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. 13th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages<\/a>, University of G\u00f6ttingen, December 5-7.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Microvariation in Multilingual Situations: The importance of linguistic proximity and property-by-property acquisition. Winter Neurolinguistics School<\/a>, National Research University \u2013 Higher School of Economics<\/a>, Moscow, November 21-23.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. Boston University Conference on Language Development 43<\/a>, Boston, November 2-4.<\/p>\n

Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0 Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur & Marit Westergaard. The acquisition and attrition of grammatical gender in Heritage Icelandic. Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas WILA 9<\/a>, Eau Claire, October 25-27.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina & Marit Westergaard.\u00a0On the acceptability of ungrammatical stimuli: What can grammatical illusions tell us about the bilingual advantage? Acceptability judgments in current syntactic theory<\/a>. Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, October 25-26.<\/p>\n

Leivada, Evelina & Marit Westergaard. Is there a universal hierarchy for adjective ordering? A0<\/sup>:\u00a0The Adjective as a Lexical Category<\/a> workshop. Bled, October 11-13.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit. Microvariation in Multilingual Situations: Unlearning V2 in L1 Norwegian L2 English acquisition. EuroSLA<\/a>, M\u00fcnster, September 5-8.<\/p>\n

Kupisch, Tanja, Miriam Gei\u00df, Natalia Mitrofanova & Marit Westergaard: Gender cues in L1-Russian children acquiring German as an early L2. EuroSLA<\/a>, M\u00fcnster, September 5-8.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard: Are bilinguals sensitive to formal gender cues in Russian? Child Language Symposium<\/a>, University of Reading, June 25-26.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (invited): Sensitivity to morphophonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian heritage language. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender (ThEGen),<\/a> Humboldt University & Leibniz Center General Linguistics, Berlin, June 14-15.<\/p>\n

Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard: Gender and declension class in Norwegian dialects: Language acquisition and language change. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender (ThEGen),<\/a> Humboldt University & Leibniz Center General Linguistics, Berlin, June 14-15.<\/p>\n

Urek, Olga, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard: The role of phonological cues in assigning grammatical gender to novel nouns in Norwegian (poster). Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender (ThEGen),<\/a> Humboldt University & Leibniz Center General Linguistics, Berlin, June 14-15.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia & Marit Westergaard: Wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer: Acquisition of morphological case in an artificial L3 (poster). 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children<\/a>, Technische Universt\u00e4t Braunschweig, May 24-25.<\/p>\n

Sekerina, Irina, Natalia Mitrofanova, Antje Sauermann, Natalia Gagarina & Marit Westergaard: Predictive use of grammatical case in bilingual children is modulated by task (poster). 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children<\/a>, Technische Universt\u00e4t Braunschweig, May 24-25.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard: \u2018Bilinguals\u2019 sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian.\u2019 15. Nordiske Symposium om B\u00f8rnesprog<\/a>. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 23-24.<\/p>\n

Urek, Olga, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard: The role of phonological cues in assigning grammatical gender to novel nouns in Norwegian (poster). GRAMINO<\/a>, University of Oslo, May 15-16.<\/p>\n

Busterud, Guro, Terje Lohndal, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: Grammatisk kj\u00f8nn i Trondheimsdialekten (poster). GRAMINO<\/a>, University of Oslo, May 15-16.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit (invited): English as an L3: The importance of linguistic proximity and property-by-property transfer. CuTLi 2018 – English as an additional language<\/a>. University of Hamburg, March 23-24.<\/p>\n

2017<\/span><\/h2>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Terje Lohndal: V2 i arvespr\u00e5k: Endring av pragmatisk struktur i amerikanorsk. MONS <\/a>(M\u00f8te om norsk spr\u00e5k), Solstrand, November 22-24.<\/p>\n

Busterud, Guro, Terje Lohndal, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: Grammatisk genus i Trondheimsdialekten. MONS <\/a>(M\u00f8te om norsk spr\u00e5k), Solstrand, November 22-24.<\/p>\n

Mitrofanova, Natalia, Yulia Rodina, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard. \u2018Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian.\u2019 Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42<\/a>), Boston, November 3-5.<\/p>\n

Terje Lohndal & Marit Westergaard: Vulnerability of Syntax and Pragmatics in Norwegian Heritage Language. SiLA<\/a>, University of Edinburgh, October 13-14.<\/p>\n

Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard: Economy of movement, Frequency and Cross-linguistic Influence in Heritage Language:\u00a0\u00a0Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian. SiLA<\/a>, University of Edinburgh, October 13-14.<\/p>\n

Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. \u2018Complexity, Frequency and Cross-linguistic Influence in Heritage Language: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian.\u2019 Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8)<\/a>, University of Copenhagen, October 12-14.<\/p>\n

Lohndal, Terje & Marit Westergaard: Loss of Pragmatic Structure in Heritage Language: A Case Study of V2 in American Norwegian. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop CGSW<\/a>, NTNU, Trondheim, September 13-15.<\/p>\n

Bayram, Fatih, Mike Iverson, Tanja Kupisch, Eloi Puig Mayenco, David Miller, Jason Rothman & Marit Westergaard: Production Divergence without Representational Deficiencies: The Use of Passives in Turkish Heritage Speakers\u2019 Turkish and German. GALA 13 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<\/a>, Palma, September 7-9.<\/p>\n

Rodina, Yulia, Natalia Mitrofanova, Olga Urek & Marit Westergaard: Grammatical gender on novel nouns in child bilingual acquisition. GALA 13 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<\/a>, Palma, September 7-9.<\/p>\n

Bayram, Fatih, Mike Iverson, Tanja Kupisch, Eloi Puig Mayenco, David Miller, Jason Rothman & Marit Westergaard: Divergence in Production without Deficiency in Representation: Passives in Turkish Heritage Speakers\u2019 Turkish and German. EuroSLA 27<\/a>, Reading, August 30-September 2.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit: Microvariation in Multilingual Situations: The importance of linguistic proximity and property-by-property acquisition. Colloquium talk, Universit\u00e4t Konstanz, June 29.<\/p>\n

Castro, Tammer, Jason Rothman & Marit Westergaard: L1 attrition and L2 competence in the context of bidialectal bilingualism. ISB 11 (International Symposium on Bilingualism)<\/a>, Limerick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Bayram, Fatih, Tanja Kupisch, Jason Rothman & Marit Westergaard: Production Reveals Equivalencies in Heritage Speaker (HS) Representation Despite Use Differences: Passives and Relative Clauses in HS Turkish and their Dominant German L2. ISB 11 (International Symposium on Bilingualism)<\/a>, Limerick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westeraard: Word Order Variation in Norwegian Heritage Language: Complexity, Frequency or Crosslinguistic Influence. ISB 11 (International Symposium on Bilingualism)<\/a>, Limerick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Terje Lohndal: V2 variation in Norwegian Heritage Language: The Vulnerability of Syntax vs. Pragmatic Structure. ISB 11 (International Symposium on Bilingualism)<\/a>, Limerick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Wolleb, Anna, Antonella Sorace & Marit Westergaard: The role of executive control in cross-language priming (poster). ISB 11 (International Symposium on Biling\u00adualism)<\/a>, Lime\u00adrick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Urek, Olga, Agrita Taurina & Marit Westergaard: Acquisition of grammatical gender in Latvian-Russian bilinguals (poster). ISB 11 (International Symposium on Biling\u00adualism)<\/a>, Lime\u00adrick, June 11-15.<\/p>\n

Lohndal, Terje & Marit Westergaard: The development of gender in varieties of Norwegian. ICaVE 9 (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe)<\/a>, University of Malaga, June 6-9.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit: Third language acquisition in bilingual learners: The importance of linguistic proximity<\/a> (Invited plenary). Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use<\/a>, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, May 6-7.<\/p>\n

Busterud, Guro, Terje Lohndal, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard: Linguistic and sociolinguistic factors in language change: Grammatical gender in Norwegian dialects. Bridging formal and sociolinguistic approaches to language contact and code-mixing<\/a>, NTNU Trondheim, April 27-29.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit: Microvariation in Multilingual Situations (Invited plenary). GASLA 14 <\/a>(Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), University of Southampton, April 6-9.<\/p>\n

Bayram, Fatih,\u00a0 Jason Rothman, Michael Iverson,\u00a0Tanja Kupisch, David Miller, Eloi Puig Mayenco & Marit Westergaard: Distinct Patterns of Use with the Same Mental Representations: Passives and Relative Clauses in Heritage Turkish in Germany (poster). GASLA 14 <\/a>(Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), University of Southampton, April 6-9.<\/p>\n

Jensen, Isabel N., Roumyana Slabakova & Marit Westergaard: The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: Norwegian L1 speakers\u2019 knowledge of syntax and morphology in English L2 (poster). GASLA 14 <\/a>(Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), University of Southampton, April 6-9.<\/p>\n

Anderssen, Merete, Kristine Bentzen, Guro Busterud, Anne Dahl, Jelena Didriksen & Marit Westergaard: Word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of Subject and Object Shift (poster). GASLA 14 <\/a>(Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), University of Southampton, April 6-9.<\/p>\n

Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard: Word Order Variation in Norwegian Heritage Language: Complexity, Frequency or Crosslinguistic Influence. Georgetown University Round Table <\/a>(GURT 2016), March 10-12.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Terje Lohndal: V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: Variation and Vulnerability. Georgetown University Round Table <\/a>(GURT 2016), March 10-12.<\/p>\n

Westergaard, Marit & Natalia Mitrofanova:\u00a0 Microvariation in Multilingual Situations (MiMS): Grammatical Gender and Word Order in Russian-Norwegian and Russian-German children and adults. Workshop on Heritage Languages in Adults and Children<\/a>, Zentrum f\u00fcr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, January 27.<\/p>\n

2016<\/span><\/h2>\n

CGSW 31<\/a> (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop), Stellenbosch University, December 1-3: Complexity, Frequency and Cross-linguistic Influence in Heritage Language: Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

CGSW 31<\/a> (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop), Stellenbosch University, December 1-3: The asymmetric nature of V2: Evidence from learner languages. (with Artemis Alexiadou & Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

BUCLD 41<\/a> (Boston University Conference on Language Development), Boston, November 4-6: The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: Norwegian L1 speakers\u2019 knowledge of syntax and morphology in English L2 (with Isabel Nadine Jensen & Roumyana Slabakova)<\/p>\n

BUCLD 41 <\/a>(Boston University Conference on Language Development), Boston, November 4-6: The acquisition of Subject and Object Shift in L2\/Ln Norwegian (poster). (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Guro Busterud, Anne Dahl, Jelena Didriksen & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist)<\/p>\n

WILA 7 <\/a>(Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas), Athens GA, October 27-29: V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: The vulnerability of Syntax vs. pragmatic structure. (with Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Transatlantic Forum: Big Challenges – Human Solutions<\/a>, Chicago, October 24-25: Adult and child Heritage speakers in Norway and the USA. (with Terje Lohndal and Jason Rothman)<\/p>\n

Transatlantic Forum: Big Challenges – Human Solutions<\/a>, Chicago, October 24-25: Multilingualism in the globalized reality. (with Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Norwegian-American Workshop on Bilingualism, Northwestern University, October 23: Information Structure Effects in Norwegian Heritage Language and Possible Syntactic Consequences. (with Terje Lohdal)<\/p>\n

Norsk andrespr\u00e5ksforskning: teori og praksis<\/a> [Research on Norwegian as a second language: Theory and Practice], NTNU Trondheim, October 20-21: Tilegnelse av ordstilling i norsk som andrespr\u00e5k: Subjekts- og objektsflytting. (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Guro Busterud, Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist & Jelena Didriksen)<\/p>\n

Heritage Language Acquisition<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8, September 19-20: V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: The vulnerability of Syntax vs. pragmatic structure (poster). (with Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Heritage Language Acquisition<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8, September 19-20: Comparing heritage speakers and late acquirers in the context of bidialectal bilingualism: Data from production. (with Tammer Castro & Jason Rothman)<\/p>\n

GALANA 7<\/a>, University of Illinois, September 8-10: The Acquisition of Locative PPs. (with Natalia Mitrofanova)<\/p>\n

GALANA 7<\/a>, University of Illinois, September 8-10: The Bottleneck Hypothesis (poster). (with Isabel Nadine Jensen & Roumyana Slabakova)<\/p>\n

GALANA 7<\/a>, University of Illinois, September 8-10: Object Shift in L2 Norwegian (poster). (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Anne Dahl, Jelena Didriksen & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist)<\/p>\n

VIII International Conference of Language Acquisition <\/a>(AEAL), Palma, September 7-9: Object Shift in L2 Norwegian. (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Anne Dahl, Jelena Didriksen & Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist)<\/p>\n

9th Heritage Language Research Institute<\/a>: From bilingual children to adult heritage speakers, Seattle, June 15-18, 2016 (Invited speaker): Grammatical gender and word order in bilingual acquisition and attrition.<\/p>\n

Rethinking Verb Second<\/a>, Cambridge University, March 22-24: Against a V2 parameter: Evidence from Norwegian. (with \u00d8ystein Vangsnes & Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Structure, Meaning, and Variation: A workshop in honor of Tor A. \u00c5farli<\/a>, NTNU, March 10 (Invited): Gender and Declension Class in Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition?<\/p>\n

29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing<\/a>, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 3-5: In language change, processing effects precede loss in production. (with Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist, Irina Sekerina & Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Budapest Research Centre for Linguistic Theory<\/a>, February 17 (Invited; funded by an EEA Norway grant): Gradualness vs. abruptness in acquisition and change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE), School of English and American Studies<\/a>, February 16 (Invited; funded by an EEA Norway grant): The acquisition of English as an L3 by Norwegian-Russian bilinguals: The Linguistic Proximity Model.<\/p>\n

Zentrum f\u00fcr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft <\/a>(ZAS), Berlin, January 14: Linguistic variation in acquisition and attrition: The size of rules & the role of complexity, economy and frequency.<\/p>\n

University of Frankfurt<\/a> (Invited), January 12: Linguistic variation in acquisition and attrition: The size of rules & the role of complexity, economy and frequency.<\/p>\n

2015<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Third St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language<\/a> (Night Whites), St. Petersburg, December 18-19: The use of gender marking for predictive processing in Norwegian. (with Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist, Yulia Rodina and Irina Sekerina)<\/p>\n

MultiLing<\/a>, University of Oslo (Invited guest talk), December 1: Grammatical Gender in Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition?<\/p>\n

University of Konstanz<\/a> (Invited guest talk), October 29: Norwegian V2 variation in L1, L2 and L3 acquisition.<\/p>\n

LCIS workshop (Linguistic Complexity in the Individual and Society)<\/a>, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, October 15-16: The Effect of Complexity and Crosslinguistic Influence in Heritage Language: Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

The syntax-morphology interface: Evidence from multilingualism (DAAD workshop), Trondheim, October 14: The acquisition of L3 English by Norwegian-Russian bilinguals: The Linguistic Proximity Model.<\/p>\n

Lost in Transmission? The role of attrition and input in heritage language development<\/a>, CeLM, Reading, October 9-10: Complexity, Frequency and Crosslinguistic Influence in Heritage Language: Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

GALA<\/a> (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Nantes, September 10-12: The acquisition of L3 English by Norwegian-Russian adolescents: The Linguistic Proximity Model. (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Natalia Mitrofanova and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

PsyLing 2015<\/a> (International Symposium of Psycholinguistics 12), Valencia, July 1-4: Sources of transfer in third language acquisition (with Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina and Roksolana Mykhaylyk)<\/p>\n

Morphosyntactic Interference in Heritage Languages, Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England, June 11: The category of gender in heritage language. (with Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Guest talk, Ume\u00e5 University, May 29 (Invited): Variation in the input and aspects of the Norwegian DP in bilingual acquisition and attrition.<\/p>\n

ISB 10<\/a> (International Symposium on Bilingualism), Rutgers University, May 20-24: Cross-linguistic effects in bilingual acquisition of null objects in Brazilian and European Portuguese. (with Tammer Castro and Jason Rothman).<\/p>\n

ISB 10<\/a> (International Symposium on Bilingualism), Rutgers University, May 20-24: Subject Shift and Object Shift in Norwegian heritage language. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

ISB 10<\/a> (International Symposium on Bilingualism), Rutgers University, May 20-24: Gender attrition in American Norwegian heritage language. (with Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Bilingualism and Executive Function<\/a>, CUNY, May 18-19: (with Anna Wolleb)<\/p>\n

Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use<\/a>, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, March 20-21: Norwegian-Russian bilinguals learning English: The Linguistic Proximity Model. (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Natalia Mitrofanova and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

GASLA 13<\/a> (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 4-6 March: \u2018Null object distribution in two Brazilian populations in Portugal: cross-linguistic effects.\u2019 (with Tammer Castro and Jason Rothman)<\/p>\n

Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World<\/a>, University of Leiden, January 14-16: Acquisition of null objects within microparametric domains: Early and late successive Brazilian and European Portuguese bilinguals. (with Tammer Castro and Jason Rothman)<\/p>\n

2014<\/span><\/h2>\n

Det flerspr\u00e5klige og flerkulturelle nord \u2013 i skole og barnehage<\/a>, Troms\u00f8, November 13-14: Flerspr\u00e5klighet i skolen: Er det lettere for norske elever \u00e5 l\u00e6re engelsk dersom de allerede kan russisk eller polsk? [Multilingualism in school: Is it easier for Norwegian students to learn English if they already know Russian or Polish?] (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk)<\/p>\n

BUCLD 39 (Boston University Conference on Language Development)<\/a>, Boston, November 7-9: The Linguistic Proximity Model: The case of Verb-Second revisited (with Roksolana Mykhaylyk, Natalia Mitrofanova and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

The Language Learning Fest, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, November 6: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Norwegian-Russian bilinguals: The effect of transparency and amount of input. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, University of Southampton, October 29 (Invited): Linguistic variation in monolingual and bilingual contexts: The size of rules & the role of economy, complexity and frequency.<\/p>\n

WILA 5 (Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas)<\/a>, Los Angeles, October 17-19: Gender attrition in American Norwegian Heritage Language. (with Terje Lohndal)<\/p>\n

Guest lecture at Memorial University, St John\u2019s, October 9: Linguistic variation in monolingual and bilingual contexts: The size of rules & the role of economy, complexity and frequency.<\/p>\n

Workshop on Language Acquisition and Multilingualism<\/a>, St. Petersburg, October 6-7: Word order and definiteness in Norwegian: Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in Norwegian-English bilingual acquisition and attrition. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

Workshop on Language Acquisition and Multilingualism<\/a>, St. Petersburg, October 6-7: Input effects in gender assignment: Norwegian-Russian children. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Workshop on Verb Second in honor of Ans van Kemenade, Nijmegen, September 3: \u2018Word order and verb movement in Norwegian wh-questions: A comparison of production and judgement data.\u2019<\/p>\n

Workshop on Language Acquisition and Concept Formation, University of Oslo, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, August 14-15, 2014 (Invited): Child language acquisition of information structure and word order variation.<\/p>\n

IASCL 13 <\/a>(International Congress for the Study of Child Language), Amsterdam, July 15-18: Transparency and amount of input in bilingual acquisition: The case of Russian gender agreement. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ICEHL 18<\/a> (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), University of Leuven, July 14-18 (Invited plenary): Gradualness vs. abruptness in acquisition and change.<\/p>\n

Workshop on Early English dialect morphosyntax, ICEHL 18<\/a> (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), University of Leuven, July 14-18: Word order variation in Late Middle English: Information structure, dialects and sociolinguistic factors. (with Tam\u00e1s Eitler)<\/p>\n

NorPhLex workshop, Sommar\u00f8y<\/a>, June 17: Assessing exposure effects in gender assignment by Norwegian-Russian bilingual children. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

NorPhLex workshop, Sommar\u00f8y<\/a>, June 18: Lexical acquisition and morphosyntax: Grammatical gender in Norwegian. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, ReCoS – University of Cambridge<\/a>, June 10: Linguistic variation in monolingual and bilingual contexts: The size of rules & the role of economy, complexity and frequency.<\/p>\n

Workshop on the North Germanic Noun Phrase<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8\/CASTL, May 22-23: Grammatical gender in a Norwegian dialect: Language acquistion and language change. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, Ume\u00e5 University<\/a>, May 6 (Invited): Variation in the input and aspects of the Norwegian DP in bilingual acquisition and attrition.<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, ZAS (Zentrum f\u00fcr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<\/a>), Berlin, January 19-22: Grammatical gender in bilingual and monolingual acquisition: Norwegian and Russian. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

2013<\/span><\/h2>\n

MONS 15<\/a> (M\u00f8te om norsk spr\u00e5k), University of Oslo, November 21-23: Hvor mange genus er det i Troms\u00f8dialekten? Noen funn fra barnemunn [How many genders are there in the Troms\u00f8 dialect? Some findings from child language]. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

MONS 15<\/a> (M\u00f8te om norsk spr\u00e5k), University of Oslo, November 21-23: Tilegnelse av genus hos norsk-russiske tospr\u00e5klige barn: Hvordan m\u00e5ler man mengden av input? [The acquisition of gender in Norwegian-Russian children: How should we measure the amount of input?]. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Troms\u00f8 International Conference on Language Diversity<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8, November 6-8: Norwegian-Russian bilinguals in North Norway (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Troms\u00f8 International Conference on Language Diversity<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8, November 6-8: Complexity, frequency and structural (dis)similarity in bilingual Norwegian-English child and heritage language. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

Parallel Grammars and Multilingualism<\/a>, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, October 16-18 (Invited): Linguistic variation in monolingual and bilingual contexts: The size of rules & the role of economy, complexity and frequency.<\/p>\n

MIMS 2 (Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies)<\/a>, University of Hamburg, October 10-12: \u2018The effect of input and transparency on the acquisition of grammatical gender by bilingual Norwegian-Russian children.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas<\/a>, University of Iceland, September 19-21: \u2018Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in bilingual Norwegian-English acquisition and attrition.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition)<\/a>, University of Oldenburg, September 5-7: \u2018Gender agreement in bilingual Norwegian\/Russian children: The role of input and transparency.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition)<\/a>, University of Oldenburg, September 5-7: \u2018Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in acquisition and attrition: The case of word order and definiteness in Norwegian DPs.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

LAGB (Linguistics Association of Great Britain)<\/a>, SOAS University of London, August 28-31: \u2018How many genders are there in Norwegian? Evidence from monolingual acquisition of the Troms\u00f8 dialect.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ICHL 21 (International Conference for Historical Linguistics)<\/a>, University of Oslo, August 5-9: Late Middle English word order: The effect of information structure and sociolinguistic factors. (with Tam\u00e1s Eitler)<\/p>\n

CLS (Child Language Seminar)<\/a>, Manchester, June 24-25: Input Factors Influencing Norwegian\/Russian Acquisition of Grammatical Gender. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ISB 9 (International Symposium on Bilingualism)<\/a>, Singapore, June 10-13: Word order and definiteness: Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in Norwegian-English bilingual acquisition and attrition. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

Memorial University, St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland<\/a> (Invited), May 20-23: The acquisition of grammatical gender in monolingual and bilingual contexts.<\/p>\n

25th SCL (Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics)<\/a>, Workshop Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation<\/a>, Reykjavik, May 13-15: The acquisition of linguistic variation: What is and what isn\u2019t innate?<\/p>\n

25th SCL (Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics)<\/a>, Workshop Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition<\/a>, Reykjavik, May 13-15: \u2018On the role of input in bilingual Norwegian\/Russian acquisition of grammatical gender.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

Aarhus University<\/a> (Invited guest lecture), April 22: Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian.<\/p>\n

GLOW<\/a> workshop Acquisition of Syntax in Close Varieties<\/a>, Lund, April 6: Word order and definiteness in the Norwegian DP: Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in bilingual acquisition and attrition. (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

GLOW<\/a> workshop Syntactic Variation and Change<\/a>, Lund, April 2 (Invited talk): Microvariation as Diachrony – Diachrony as Microvariation.<\/p>\n

PRIM (Potsdam Research Institute on Multilingualism)<\/a>, March 19: Linguistic variation and aspects of the Norwegian DP in bilingual acquisition and attrition.<\/p>\n

DGfS 35 (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft<\/a>), Potsdam, March 12-15: Word order and information structure within the Norwegian DP: Vulnerable domains in bilingual acquisition and attrition (with Merete Anderssen).<\/p>\n

Workshop in honor of Professor Jan Terje Faarlund, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters<\/a>, Oslo, January 25 (Invited): Tilegnelse av spr\u00e5klig variasjon.<\/p>\n

Seminar on the Nordic Dialect Corpus<\/a>, Oslo, January 10-11 (Invited): Ka korpuset fort\u00e6ll? (with \u00d8ystein Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

2012<\/span><\/h2>\n

3rd ELA Conference (Early Language Acquisition)<\/a>, Lyon, December 5-7: Gender and declension classes in early Norwegian child language. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

3FB \u2014 Three Factors and Beyond<\/a>: The Socio-Syntax of (A)typical Language Acquisition and Development, Cyprus, November 16-18 (Invited talk): Linguistic variation and aspects of the Norwegian DP in acquisition and attrition.<\/p>\n

Workshop conclusivo del progetto L’acquisizione della sintassi in contesto plurilingue: uno studio longitudinale sui bambini mocheni, Trento, November 5-7 (Invited speaker): The acquisition of syntactic variation: Parameters vs. micro-cues.<\/p>\n

3rd workshop on Immigrant Languages in America<\/a>, Penn State, September 27-29: \u2018Vulnerable domains in Norwegian heritage language: Word order and definiteness within the DP?\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

University of Pennsylvania Speaker Series<\/a>, September 27: \u2018The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Some aspects of the Norwegian DP in acquisition and attrition.\u2019<\/p>\n

Decennium: The first 10 years of CASTL<\/a>: Participated in three talks and four posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

N\u2019CLAV Grand Meeting<\/a>, Oslo, August\u00a013-16: Koffer d\u00e6m ikke sir det? [why they not say that]: Word order in wh-questions in North Norway.<\/p>\n

2nd ISWOC<\/a> workshop, Oslo, June 8-9: \u2018Word order variation in late Middle English: The effect of information structure and audience design.\u2019 (joint work with Tam\u00e1s Eitler)<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, University of Hamburg<\/a>, May 18: \u2018Norwegian Determiners in English-Norwegian Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition.\u2019 (joint work with Merete Anderssen and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ICNGL 11 (International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics<\/a>), Freiburg University, April 18-20: \u2018Koffer d\u00e6m ikke sir det? [why they not say that]: Word order in wh-questions in North Norway.\u2019<\/p>\n

Guest lecture Ca\u2019Foscari University<\/a>, Venice, April 2: \u2018The acquisition of word order in English and Norwegian wh-questions: Usage-based vs. rule-based learning.\u2019<\/p>\n

Guest lecture Ca\u2019Foscari University<\/a>, Venice, April 2: \u2018Norwegian Determiners in English-Norwegian Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition.\u2019 (joint work with Merete Anderssen and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ClaS-CCD Colloquium (Centre for Language Sciences<\/a>\/Centre for Cognition and its Disorders<\/a>) Macquarie University, Sydney, February 22: Norwegian Determiners in English-Norwegian Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ClaS-CCD Colloquium (Centre for Language Sciences<\/a>\/Centre for Cognition and its Disorders<\/a>) Macquarie University, Sydney, February 22: \u2018Word order and finiteness in acquisition: A study of English and Norwegian wh-questions.\u2019<\/p>\n

ClaS-CCD Colloquium (Centre for Language Sciences<\/a>\/Centre for Cognition and its Disorders<\/a>) Macquarie University, Sydney, February 20: \u2018The acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian: A comparison of usage-based and rule-based learning.\u2019<\/p>\n

Grammar in Focus, Lund University, February 9-10: \u2018Norwegian Possessive Constructions in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

2011<\/span><\/h2>\n

MONS 14<\/a> (M\u00f8te om norsk spr\u00e5k), University of Troms\u00f8, November 24-26: \u2018Tospr\u00e5klighet og ordstilling i norske possessivkonstruksjoner.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen).<\/p>\n

The Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America<\/a>, Fefor, September 21-24: \u2018Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Norwegian Possessive Constructions.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<\/a>), Thessaloniki, September 6-8: \u2018Gender and definiteness in bilingual Norwegian-English acquisition.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition<\/a>), Thessaloniki, September 6-8: \u2018Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Norwegian Possessive Constructions.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

Variation and Typology: New trends in Syntactic Research<\/a>, symposium, Helsinki, August 25-27: \u2018The typology of verb movement in matrix wh-questions in Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

IASCL 10 (International Congress for the Study of Child Language<\/a>), Montreal, July 19-23: \u2018The Acquisition of Word Order in Questions in English and Norwegian: Frames vs. Micro-cues.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

ICLaVE 6 <\/a>(International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), Freiburg, June 29-July 1: \u2018Microvariation as diachrony: On how a minuscule grammatical change led to an elaborate pattern of synchronic variation.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

ISB8 (International Symposium on Bilingualism<\/a>), Oslo, June 15-18: \u2018The Acquisition of Nominal Gender Marking in a Bilingual Norwegian-English child. (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

ISB8 (International Symposium on Bilingualism<\/a>), Oslo, June 15-18: Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Possessive Constructions.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

2nd Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics<\/a>, Oslo, May 5-7: \u2018Morphological awareness skills of Norwegian adolescent dyslexics acquiring English as a second language.\u2019 (with \u00d6m\u00fcr Caglar-Ryeng)<\/p>\n

Workshop talk at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit<\/a>, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, April 21: \u2018Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.\u2019<\/p>\n

Workshop talk at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit<\/a>, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, April 15: \u2018The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited Colloquium lecture at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit<\/a>, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, April 14: \u2018Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: The acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian.\u2019<\/p>\n

The VAMOS Workshop: Objects – Information Structure, Prosody and Acquisition<\/a>, Troms\u00f8, April 4-5: \u2018Word order in double object constructions in German: The effect of animacy and information structure.\u2019 (with Anita R\u00f8reng)<\/p>\n

DGfS 33 <\/a>(Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on Word Order and Typology<\/a>: The German Middle Field in a Comparative and Diachronic Perspective, G\u00f6ttingen, February 23-25: \u2018Word Order and Scrambling in Double Object Constructions in German.\u2019 (with Anita R\u00f8reng)<\/p>\n

ISWOC (Information Structure and Word Order Change) workshop on Information structure and corpus annotation: Theoretical and practical perspectives<\/a>, Lysebu, January 7-9: \u2018Word order and information structure in double object constructions.\u2019 (with Anita R\u00f8reng)<\/p>\n

2010<\/span><\/h2>\n

Workshop on Verb Movement: Its Nature, Triggers, and Effects, University of Amsterdam, December 11-12: Verb movement in matrix wh-questions in Norwegian dialects: Microvariation and diachrony.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

Workshop on The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation, University of Troms\u00f8, October 25-26, 2010: \u2018Acquiring Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.\u2019<\/p>\n

Workshop on The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation, University of Troms\u00f8, October 25-26, 2010: \u2018The acquisition of gender (marking) in a Norwegian-English bilingual child: Comparison with monolingual acquisition.\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

RALFe (Rencontres d\u2019Automne de Linguistique formelle: Langage, Langues et Cognition), University of Paris 8, October 14-16, 2010: \u2018Wh-extraction and left peripheral syntax across Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

GSFL (Language Contact and Change \u2013 Grammatical Structure Encounters the Fluidity of Language), NTNU, Trondheim, September 22-25: \u2018The Development of matrix non-V2 wh-questions in Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

ESF Exploratory workshop: Exploring the roots of linguistic diversity: Biolinguistic perspectives (Invited talk), Barcelona, September 20-22: \u2018The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.\u2019<\/p>\n

Workshop on Immigrant Language in America (Invited talk), Madison, USA, September 16-17: \u2018Variation in interrogative syntax across Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

6th International Conference on Language Acquisition (CIAL), Barcelona, September 8-10: \u2018The acquisition of finiteness and inversion in English and Norwegian wh-questions.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

Workshop on Tense and Aspect, Lisbon, July 1-2: \u2018Finiteness and Word Order in the Acquisition of English and Norwegian Wh-questions.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

NORMS Closing Seminar, Troms\u00f8, June 10: \u2018Wh-extraction and left peripheral syntax across Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with Terje Lohndal and \u00d8ystein Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

Finiteness Fest: Workshop on Finiteness, Trondheim, May 6-7: \u2018Finiteness and word order: The acquisition of wh-questions in English and Norwegian.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

Grammatikseminariet, University of Lund, January 21: \u2018Finiteness and Word Order in Acquisition: A Study of English and Norwegian Wh-Questions.\u2019<\/p>\n

2009<\/span><\/h2>\n

Invited talk, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, December 7, 2009: \u2018Variation, Acquisition and Change: The Development of V2 in English and Norwegian.\u2019<\/p>\n

MONS 13, Trondheim, November 26-28: \u2018Subjektsposisjoner i norsk og historisk engelsk: Kan frekvens ha betydning for spr\u00e5kendringer? [Subject positions in Norwegian and the history of English: The effect of frequency on language change.\u2019]<\/p>\n

Guest talk, University of Maryland, November 9, 2009: \u2018Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), Boston, November 8: \u2018Word Order and Finiteness in English and Norwegian Child Language: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 34), Boston, November 7: \u2018Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen)<\/p>\n

Invited talk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 3, 2009: \u2018Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Seminar on North Norwegian Dialects, University of Troms\u00f8, September 28: \u2018Koff\u00f8r dem ikkje sir det?: On the Word Order of Wh-Questions in Northern Troms.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kvinneforskermaraton [Women\u2019s Research Marathon], University of Troms\u00f8, September 19: \u2018Det vil \u00e6 ikke eller Det vil ikke \u00e6: Hvordan barn l\u00e6rer ordstilling.\u2019<\/p>\n

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19), Nijmegen, August 10-14: \u2018Subject Positions and Information Structure.\u2019<\/p>\n

2008<\/span><\/h2>\n

European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 7.5), Moscow, December 6-8: \u2018A Cue-based Approach to the Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Russian\u2019 (with Yulia Rodina).<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, Humboldt Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, November 12: \u2018Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.\u2019<\/p>\n

NORMS Workshop on Subjects and the Architecture of Grammar, NTNU Trondheim, September 18-19: \u2018Subject positions and information structure in main and embedded clauses: Corpus data from Norwegian and the history of English.\u2019<\/p>\n

15th ICEHL, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Munich, August 25-29: \u2018Syntax and Information Structure: the diverse nature of V2 in early English.\u2019 (with Ans van Kemenade)<\/p>\n

Invited talk, Workshop on \u201cUniversal Grammar, Acquisition and Change\u201d, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, August 26-27: \u2018Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure and economy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited talk, International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Dyslexia and Language, University of Troms\u00f8, June 18: \u2018A Linguistic Perspective on the Acquisition of Norwegian.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen and Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

Invited talk, Wuppertal Workshop on \u201cFrequency and Language Development\u201d, June 5-6: \u2018The Acquisition of Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian: Frequency Issues.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Yulia Rodina).<\/p>\n

Invited guest lecture, University of Lund, May 30: \u2018Historisk utvikling av ordstilling i engelsk: Hvorfor er det alltid noe som ikke forandrer seg? [Historical development of word order in English: Why are there always some things that don\u2019t change?]<\/p>\n

Guest lecture, University of York, May 22: \u2018Non-target-consistent word order in Norwegian child language: Pragmatics or economy?\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited talk, Middle English Grammar Corpus Symposium, University of Stavanger, April 25-26: \u2018Word order development in the history of English: why some things change and other things survive.\u2019<\/p>\n

Talk given at Pinker Party, on the occasion of Steven Pinker\u2019s appointment as honorary doctor of the University of Troms\u00f8, March 29: \u2018Competition, Copying or Cues: The Acquisition of Wh-questions in English and Norwegian.\u2019<\/p>\n

CASTL colloquium, Troms\u00f8, February 21: \u2018The Acquisition of Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian.\u2019 (with Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Yulia Rodina)<\/p>\n

2007<\/span><\/h2>\n

Invited talk, Workshop on Linguistic Approaches to Narrative Text, University of Venice, November 21-22: \u2018The role of syntax and information structure in the history of English: A study of word order development in narrative texts from the perspective of first language acquisition.\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited seminar talk, University of Venice, November 19: \u2018Non-target-consistent Word Order in Norwegian Child Language: Pragmatics or Economy?\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited talk, Workshop on Information Structure and Word Order in Early Germanic, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 9-10: \u2018Micro-cues and Information Structure: Historical Change from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited talk, Workshop on Information Structure and Word Order in Early Germanic, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 9-10: \u2018Syntax and Information Structure: The diverse nature of V2 in early English.\u2019 (with Ans van Kemenade)<\/p>\n

NAES 10 (Nordic Conference for English Studies), Workshop on English historical linguistics, University of Bergen, May 24-26: \u2018Information Structure Drift and Word Order Changes in the History of English.\u2019<\/p>\n

DGfS 29 (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on \u201cMicrovariation in Quantificational Structures, University of Siegen, February 28 – March 2: \u2018Microvariation as Diachrony: A View from Acquisition.\u2019<\/p>\n

DGfS 29 (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft), Workshop on \u201cThe Role of Information Structure on Language Change\u201d, University of Siegen, February 28 \u2013 March 2: \u2018Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift.\u2019<\/p>\n

Guest lecture at the University of Lund, February 15: \u2018Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Early Child Language: Pragmatics or Economy?\u2019<\/p>\n

2006<\/span><\/h2>\n

NORMS Dialect Workshop on North Norwegian, University of Troms\u00f8, October 30: \u2018Microvariation as Diachrony: Wh-questions in Troms Dialects.\u2019<\/p>\n

14th ICEHL, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Bergamo, August 21-25: \u2018The Development of Word Order in Old and Middle English: The Role of Information Structure and First Language Acqusition.\u2019<\/p>\n

SCL 22, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, University of Aalborg, June 19-22: \u2018Diachronic Change from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition: A Study of the Word Order of Wh-questions in Present-day Norwegian Dialects.\u2019<\/p>\n

DIGS 9, Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, University of Trieste, June 8-10: \u2018Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective.\u2019<\/p>\n

CISCL Seminar, University of Siena, April 27: \u2018Non-target Word Order in Norwegian Child Language: Evidence for Economy in Acquisition?\u2019<\/p>\n

CASTL\/CLS workshop \u201cVariation and Stability in Grammar\u201d, Radboud University, Nijmegen, April 25: \u2018Non-target Word Order in Early Child Language: Pragmatics vs. Economy.\u2019<\/p>\n

DELS, Directions in English Language Studies, University of Manchester, April 6-8: \u2018English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Inconsistency and Diachronic Development from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.\u2019<\/p>\n

Invited guest lecture at the University of Padova, March 23: \u2018V2 Word Order in Norwegian and English: On the Frequency of the Input Cue and Possible Consequences for Language Change.\u2019<\/p>\n

IGG 32, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, University of Florence, March 2-4: \u2018Learning and Unlearning V2: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience in a Historical Perspective.\u2019<\/p>\n

Guest lecture at the University of Siena, February 14: \u2018Triggering V2: On the Frequency of the Input Cue and Possible Consequences for Language Change.\u2019<\/p>\n

NORMS Workshop on \u201cInversion and Verb Movement\u201d, University of Troms\u00f8, January 30-31: \u2018Triggering V2: On the Frequency of the Input Cue in a Historical Perspective.\u2019<\/p>\n

NORMS Workshop on \u201cInversion and Verb Movement\u201d, University of Troms\u00f8, January 30-31: \u2018The Word Order of Embedded Clauses in Norwegian Child Language\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen).<\/p>\n

2005 and earlier (a selection)<\/span><\/h2>\n

GALA 2005 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Siena, Italy, September 8-10, 2005: \u2018Triggering V2: The Amount of Input Needed for Parameter Setting in a Split-CP Model of Word Order.\u2019<\/p>\n

10th IASCL (International Congress for the Study of Child Language), Berlin, Germany, July 25-29, 2005: \u2018Subject Positions and Information Structure in the Acquisition of Word Order: Evidence for Economy in Child Language.\u2019<\/p>\n

DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft), K\u00f6ln, Germany, February 23\u201325, 2005: \u2018The (Non-)Effect of Input Frequency on the Acquisition of Word Order in Norwegian Embedded Clauses.\u2019 (with Kristine Bentzen)<\/p>\n

CLS (Child Language Seminar), University of Western England, Bristol, UK, July 12-14, 2004: \u2018Children\u2019s Sensitivity to Information Structure in the Acquisition of Word Order: Evidence for a Split CP.\u2019<\/p>\n

NAES 9 (Nordic Conference for English Studies), Workshop on the Syntax of English and the Nordic Languages, Aarhus, Denmark, May 27-29, 2004: \u2018What Norwegian child language can tell us about the history of English: The interaction of syntax and information structure in the development of word order.\u2019<\/p>\n

LSA (Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute), Workshop on Input and UG, University of Michigan, Lansing, USA, August 1-2, 2003: \u2018The Interaction of Input and UG in the Acquisition of Verb Movement in a Dialect of Norwegian.\u2019<\/p>\n

PLM (Poznan Linguistic Meeting), Poznan, Poland, May 1-3, 2003: \u2018Input Cues and L2 Acquisition.\u2019<\/p>\n

EUROSLA 12 (Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association), Basel, Switzerland, September 18-21, 2002: \u2018UNLEARNING V2: Transfer, Markedness, and the Importance of Input Cues in the Acquisition of Word Order in English by Norwegian Children.\u2019<\/p>\n

CGSW (Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop), Reykjavik, Iceland, August 8-11, 2002: \u2018Wh-questions, V2, and the left periphery of three Norwegian dialects.\u2019 (with \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes)<\/p>\n

IASCL 9 (International Congress for the Study of Child Language), Madison, USA, July 16-21, 2002: \u2018Acquiring the Syntax and Information Structure of Wh-Questions in a Dialect of Norwegian.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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