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Lecturer

Natalia Mitrofanova

Department of Language and Culture

77644230

natalia.mitrofanova@uit.no

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SV-HUM A-2031

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.

HIF-3010 Syntax I

ENG-1040 Language Acquisition

ENG-3050 Second Language Acquisition

ENG-3070 Varieties of English

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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: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00020/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontie Frontiers in Education 2020. ISSN 2504-284X.s doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00020.

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.

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: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01894/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontie Frontiers in Psychology 2018; Volum 9. ISSN 1664-1078.s doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01894.

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.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Micro-variation in Multilingual Situations and the Importance of Property-by-Property Acquisition. GALANA 9 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2021-05-07 - 2021-05-09 2021.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. The fine-grained time course of aspectual processing in Russian: A Visual World eye-tracking study. Guest Talk at the Slavic Department of Tübingen University 2020-12-09 - 2020-12-09 2020.

Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Exploring bilingual effects on cognition through grammatical illusions. International Symposium on Cognition, Communication, Computation and Perception (CCCP): Cross-Language Interplay in a Bilingual Mind 2020-12-10 - 2020-12-12 2020.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Vos, Myrte; Ramchand, Gillian C. Processing Grammatical Aspect in a Visual World: English vs Russian. AMLaP 2020 2020-09-03 - 2020-09-05 2020.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. The Processing and Acquisition of Russian Aspect: Evidence from VW Eye-Tracking. AMLaP 2020 2020-09-03 - 2020-09-05 2020.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Sekerina, Irina; Minor, Sergey; Sauermann, Antje; Gagarina, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. The processing of grammatical case in Russian and German. FishFeed 2020-03-06 - 2020-03-06 2020.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. The Processing and Acquisition of Grammatical Aspect in Russian: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study. 7th Summer Neurolinguistics School 2020-06-22 - 2020-06-24 2020.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Vos, Myrte Titia; Ramchand, Gillian C. Processing Aspect in Russian and English: Evidence from Visual World Eye-Tracking. CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference 2020-03-19 - 2020-03-21 2020.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. The Processing of Grammatical Aspect by Russian-speaking Children and Adults: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study. CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference 2020-03-19 - 2020-03-21 2020.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. AcqVA lunch seminar 2019-01-15 - 2019.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. Processing of Grammatical Aspect in Russian: a Visual World Eye-tracking Study. Meaning and grammar seminar series (PPLS) 2019-12-03 - 2019.

Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. V2 in L3 English: A study on Russian heritage speakers in Germany. V2 and related phenomena-workshop 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-23 2019.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Ramchand, Gillian C. Processing of grammatical aspect in Russian: a Visual World eye-tracking study. LAVA Lunch 2019-06-13 - 2019-06-13 2019.

Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 acquisition: German-Russian bilinguals acquiring English. GALA 14 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-14 2019.

Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Anderssen, Merete; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit. Does L1 Transfer Explain Everything in L2 Acquisition?. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 14) 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-14 2019.

Meir, Natalia; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Effects of structural similarity on learner sensitivity to gender cues: The case of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children. GALA14 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-14 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Sekerina, Irina; Sauermann, Antje; Gagarina, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Language-Specific Morphology Facilitates Predictive Use of Case Marking in Bilingual Children. AMLaP 2019-09-06 - 2019-09-08 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Typological or structural transfer in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning. AMLaP 2019-09-06 - 2019-09-08 2019.

Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. The impact of bilingualism in processing cognitive illusions. Capturing and Quantifying Individual Differences in Bilingualism 2019-09-02 - 2019-09-03 2019.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana. Full transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition: Wholesale or property-by-property?. EuroSLA 29 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-31 2019.

Slabakova, Roumyana; Anderssen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. L1 transfer in early L2 acquisition across linguistic modules. EuroSLA 29 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-31 2019.

Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Transfer of morphosyntactic properties in third language acquisition: An empirical study on German-Russian bilinguals acquiring L3 English. EuroSLA 29 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-31 2019.

Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. The role of formal and semantic gender cues in the acquisition of German as an early L2 by L1 Russian children. EuroSLA 29 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-31 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Meir, Natalia; Tomas, Ekaterina. Delay or deviance in bilingual language development: Acquisition of structural and lexical cases in monolingual vs. Hebrew- and Norwegian-Russian bilingual children. Child Language Symposium (Fulltekst: https://www.conftool.org/clshef2019/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=112&presentations=hide 2019-07-10 - 2019-07-12 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Sekerina, Irina; Sauermann, Antje; Gagarina, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Cross-linguistic differences in predictive use of grammatical case in Russian and German (comparing monolingual and bilingual children). International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-28 2019.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga. Sensitivity to morphophonological gender cues in heritage Russian. International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-28 2019.

Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. Acquisition of grammatical gender cues by German-Russian bilingual children. International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-28 2019.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia. A Competition-based Account of Locative Modification in Russian. GLOW 2019-05-07 - 2019-05-11 2019.

Slabakova, Roumyana; Anderssen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 Acquisition across linguistic modules. Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use 2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08 2019.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana. Full transfer in L3A: Wholesale or property-by-property?. Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use 2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08 2019.

Kolb, Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Cross-linguistic influence in German-Russian bilinguals acquiring English as a third language. CLI Workshop 2019-05-20 - 2019-05-21 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Sauermann, Antje; Gagarina, Natalia; Sekerina, Irina; Westergaard, Marit. Predictive use of grammatical case by monolingual Russian and heritage Russian children. Conference on Russian Language in a Multilingual World 2019-04-10 - 2019-04-12 2019.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga. Sensitivity to morphophonological gender cues in monolingual Russian and heritage Russian children. Conference on Russian Language in a Multilingual World 2019-04-10 - 2019-04-12 2019.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. Uniting Gender Research (UniteGen) 2019-04-04 - 2019-04-05 2019.

Rodina, Yulia; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Methodological issues in studying case marking in heritage Russian. AcqVA retreat 2018-10-18 - 2018-10-18 2018.

Urek, Olga; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. Bilinguals’s sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian. Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2018-09-07 - 2018.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. FDSL 13 (Formal Description of Slavic Languages 2018-12-05 - 2018-12-07 2018.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in the acquisition of heritage Russian. Boston University Conference on Language Development 43 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-04 2018.

Kupisch, Tanja; Geiß, Miriam; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Gender cues in L1 Russian children acquiring German as an early L2. EuroSLA 2018-09-05 - 2018-09-08 2018.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian. 15th Nordic Symposium on Child Language 2018-05-23 - 2018-05-24 2018.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Are bilinguals sensitive to formal gender cues in Russian?. CLS - Child Language Symposium 2018-06-25 - 2018-06-26 2018.

Kupisch, Tanja; Geiß, Miriam; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Are bilinguals sensitive to morphophonological gender cues in German?. ThEGen - Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender 2018-06-14 - 2018-06-15 2018.

Urek, Olga; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit. The role of phonological cues in assigning grammatical gender to novel nouns in Norwegian. ThEGen - Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender 2018-06-14 - 2018-06-15 2018.

Sekerina, Irina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Sauermann, Antje; Gagarina, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Predictive use of grammatical case in bilingual children is modulated by task. International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2) 2018-05-24 - 2018-05-25 2018.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer: Acquisition of morphological case in an artificial L3. International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2) 2018-05-24 - 2018-05-25 2018.

Sekerina, Irina; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Testing Predictive Power of Morphosyntactic Cues Cross-Linguistically. BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (BUCLD 42) 2017-11-03 - 2017-11-05 2017.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Eye-tracking in linguistics: Focus on the Visual World Paradigm. MultiLing Wednesday Seminar 2017-11-01 - 2017.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Emergence of features within spatial PPs: A view from acquisition. Workshop on the Emergence of Semantic Features 2017-10-09 - 2017-10-10 2017.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42) 2017-11-03 - 2017-11-05 2017.

Rodina, Yulia; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Urek, Olga; Westergaard, Marit. Grammatical gender on novel nouns in child bilingual acquisition. GALA Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 13 2017-09-07 - 2017-09-09 2017.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Eye-tracking in Language Acquistion Research. Konstanz Language Acquisition Course 2017-07-04 - 2017-07-04 2017.

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia. 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 2017-01-27 - 2017.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit. Acquisition of locative PPs in Russian and Norwegian: Evidence for the Structure-Building Hypothesis. GALANA 2016-09-08 - 2016-09-10 2016.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit; Svenonius, Peter. Paths and Places: Aspects of Grammar and Acquisition. (https://munin.uit.no//handle/10037/11250) (Fulltekst: https://munin.uit.no//handle/10037/11250 2016.

Krämer, Martin; Mitrofanova, Natalia. The perceptual representation of place and voice in Russian. LabPhon15 2016-07-13 - 2016-07-16 2016.

Westergaard, Marit; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia. Norwegian-Russian bilinguals learning English: The Linguistic Proximity Model. Workshop on Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use 2015-03-20 - 2015-03-21 2015.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in Russian and Norwegian. FDSL 11 2015-12-02 - 2015-12-04 2015.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Minor, Sergey. Locative Modifiers and Event Structure in Russian. FDSL 11 2015-12-02 - 2015-12-04 2015.

Krämer, Martin; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Phonological representations in the mental lexicon of Russian children. Colloquium 2015-12-10 - 2015-12-10 2015.

Westergaard, Marit; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia. The acquisition of L3 English by Norwegian-Russian adolescents: The Linguistic Proximity Model. GALA 12 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) 2015-09-10 - 2015-09-12 2015.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Rodina, Yulia. Sources of transfer in L3 acquisition by bilinguals. XII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 2015-07-01 - 2015-07-04 2015.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Preposition omission and case marking in early locative utterances in Russian. 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language 2014-07-14 - 2014-07-18 2014.

Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit. The Linguistic Proximity Model: The case of Verb-Second revisited. BUCLD 39 Boston University Conference on Language Development 2014-11-07 - 2014.

Anderssen, Merete; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Å vokse opp med to språk: Fordeler og utfordringer. Seminar om tospråklighet 2014-10-28 - 2014-10-28 2014.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Spatial prepositions and case marking in early Russian. Child language acquisition and bilingualism: Grammatical development in Russian and Norwegian 2014-10-06 - 2014-10-07 2014.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Prepositions in Russian: the role of prosody in acquisition. NORPHLEX FINAL SEMINAR 2014-06-16 - 2014-06-18 2014.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Prepositions in Russian: the role of prosody in acquisition. LOT Summer school 2014 2014-06-23 - 2014-06-27 2014.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Acquisition of locative constructions in Russian L1 learners: Prepositions and case marking. GALA 2013 2013-09-05 - 2013-09-07 2013.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Early locative utterances: patterns of preposition omission and case marking in Russian L1-learners. The acquisition of case from a crosslinguistic perspective / adjacent to Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10) 2013-08-14 - 2013-08-14 2013.

Mitrofanova, Natalia. Learning to talk about motion and space: a pilot study of early locative utterances in Russian. 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2013-05-13 - 2013-05-15 2013.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Minor, Sergey. Locative Modifiers and the Event Structure of Prefixed Verbs in Russian. 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2013-05-13 - 2013-05-15 2013.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Low Locatives and the function of verbal prefixes in Russian. 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2013-01-03 - 2013-01-06 2013.

Minor, Sergey; Mitrofanova, Natalia. Not all paths are the same: Capturing axial expressions in Russian. 38th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 2012-02-23 - 2012-02-25 2012.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia. Fordeler med å være tospråklig. Seminar for medlemer av norsk-russisk forening i Tromsø 2012-11-10 - 2012-11-10 2012.

Mitrofanova, Natalia; Minor, Sergey. Syntax and Semantics of Axial Expressions in Russian. 9th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-9) 2011-12-07 - 2011-12-09 2011.