
Natalia Mitrofanova
- Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Cross-linguistic Influence in Child L3 English: An Empirical Study on Russian-German Heritage Bilinguals. (fulltekst) International Journal of Bilingualism 2022. ISSN 1367-0069.s doi: 10.1177/13670069211054891.
- Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. Fine-grained time course of verb aspect processing. (data) (fulltekst) PLOS ONE 2022; Volum 17 (2). ISSN 1932-6203.s doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264132.
- Kupisch, Tanja; Geiß, Miriam; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Structural and phonological cues for gender assignment in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German. Experiments with real and nonce words. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2022. ISSN 2397-1835.s doi: 10.16995/glossa.5696.
- Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian). Journal of Child Language 2021. ISSN 0305-0009.s 1 - 23.s doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000039.
- Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse. PLOS ONE 2021. ISSN 1932-6203.s 1 - 19.s doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256173.
- Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules. International Journal of Multilingualism 2021. ISSN 1479-0718.s 1 - 18.s doi: 10.1080/14790718.2021.1985127.
- Mitrofanova, Natalia; Urek, Olga; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: Morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language. Applied Psycholinguistics 2021. ISSN 0142-7164.s 1 - 39.s doi: 10.1017/S0142716421000382.
- Rodina, Yulia; Kupisch, Tanja; Meir, Natalia; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence from Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the UK. (fulltekst) Frontiers in Education 2020. ISSN 2504-284X.s doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00020.
- Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian: the role of cumulative input, proficiency, and dominance. (fulltekst) Frontiers in Psychology 2018; Volum 9. ISSN 1664-1078.s doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01894.
- Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning. Journal of Child Language 2018; Volum 45 (4). ISSN 0305-0009.s 981 - 1005.s doi: 10.1017/S0305000918000016.
- Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Rodina, Yulia. Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model. International Journal of Bilingualism 2017; Volum 21 (6). ISSN 1367-0069.s 666 - 682.s doi: 10.1177/1367006916648859.
- Mitrofanova, Natalia. Early Underspecification of Functional Categories: Evidence from the Acquisition of Locative PPs in Russian. Language Acquisition 2017. ISSN 1048-9223.s doi: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1344847.
- Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. The Linguistic Proximity Model: The Case of Verb-Second Revisited. Cascadilla Press 2015 ISBN 978-1-57473-9.s 337 - 339.
- Mitrofanova, Natalia; Minor, Sergey. The Syntax and Semantics of Directional Axial Expressions in Russian. Linguistik International 2013 (28). ISSN 1436-6150.s 171 - 190.
Research interests
I'm interested in language acquisition and language processing by children (L1 and 2L1) and adults (L1, L2, L3). My favourite research paradigms include Visual World eye-tracking, various production and comprehension experiments. I've worked on the acquisition and processing of locative prepositional phrases in early grammars, grammatical case and grammatical aspect (monolingual children and heritage language learners), V2, agreement and definiteness (L2 and L3 learners). The languages I'm primarily working on are Russian (monolingual and heritage), German, Norwegian, English and Spanish.
Teaching
HIF-3010 Syntax I
ENG-1040 Language Acquisition
ENG-3050 Second Language Acquisition
ENG-3070 Varieties of English
SV-HUM A-2031