Marit Westergaard
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Anna Skalba,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
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Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Investigating the roles of dominance, recency, and property
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2025 DOI
Chloe Castle,
Isabel Nadine Jensen,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Westergaard
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Investigating crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages
Second Language Research 2025 DOI
Ute Bohnacker,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Learning and unlearning Verb Second word order
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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The Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues for the Processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German Bilinguals: An Eye Tracking Study
Judith Schlenter,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German
Helene Ruud Jensberg,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Terje Lohndal,
Björn Lundquist,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Verb placement in embedded clauses in heritage Norwegian
Tanja Kupisch,
Tammer Castro,
Martin Krämer,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Phonological influence in bilectal speakers of Brazilian and European Portuguese
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Helene Jensberg,
Terje Lohndal,
Björn Lundquist,
Marit Westergaard
:
Verb second word order and finite verb
placement in North American
Norwegian
Language Science Press 2025
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Sergey Minor,
Christina Athanasiadi,
Nadine Kolb,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
The role of heritage languages in L3 aspect processing: evidence from eye-tracking
2025
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
V2 or not V2 – that is the question: Word Order Variation in Norwegian
2025
Marit Westergaard,
Chloe Michelle Castle
:
Are bilinguals better than monolinguals at learning further languages? The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires
2025
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Kamil Długosz,
Sergey Minor,
Marit Westergaard
:
Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence and the Effect of Age: Ukrainian Refugee Children in Poland
2025
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Investigating the Processing and Production of L3 English
Sentences by Heritage Turkish Students in Norway
2025
Guro Busterud,
Terje Lohndal,
Toril Opsahl,
Yulia Rodina,
Marit Westergaard
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Language change and loss of feminine gender in the Oslo dialect
2025
Evelina Leivada,
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta,
Camilla Masullo,
Lara Kelly-Iturriaga,
Marit Westergaard,
Jason Rothman
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Exploring the role of language distance in bilingual cognition
2025
Magdalena Wrembel,
Marit Westergaard,
Roumyana Slabakova,
Marta Velnic,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Justyna Gruszecka
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How grammatical do I sound when I am accented? The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian
2025
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical considerations, research design & some empirical evidence
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence in adverb placement in L3 Spanish: comparing offline and online measures
2024
Nadine Kolb,
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence in the production and processing of adverbs in L3 Spanish, French and German: Exploring individual differences
2024
Judith Schlenter,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
When the dative becomes less reliable – L1 attrition in a multilingual context
2024
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Anna Skalba,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role?
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Sensitivity to microvariation in gender assignment to ambiguous nouns in Russian: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual native speakers
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Heritage language bilingualism: Acquisition, Variation & Possible Advantages
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Rosalinde Stadt,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Cross-linguistic influence from English in beginner learners of French and German as an L3 in the Netherlands: Comparing offline knowledge and online processing of adverb placement
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Rosalinde Stadt,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages: Influence from L1 Dutch and L2 English on adverb placement in L3 French and German
2024
Terje Lohndal,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Verb placement in heritage Norwegian: Patterns and asymmetries
2024
Rosalinde Stadt,
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages: Influence from L1 Dutch and L2 English on verb placement in L3 French and L3 German
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
L3 acquisition of an artificial language: cross-linguistic influence and structural similarity
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical concepts, methodological considerations, and some empirical evidence
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Facilitative cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism: The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires
2024
Olga Urek,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
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Gender categorization of ambiguously cued novel nouns in Russian: Evidence from an online experimental study
2024
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Comprehension vs prediction in the processing of grammatical case cues by bilingual children
2024
Nadine Kolb,
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Alicia Luque,
Sergey Minor,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
et al.:
(Extra-)linguistic variables in multilingual language development in children and adolescents
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Investigating CLI in multilingual acquisition through an artificial language
2024
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
The interaction of linguistic and visual cues for the processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German bilinguals: An eye tracking study
2024
Nadine Kolb,
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Isabel Nadine Jensen,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Investigating CLI in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages
2024
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Serge Minor,
Nadine Kolb,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
2024
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Sergey Minor,
Nadine Kolb,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
2024
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Visual Event Representation Facilitates the Processing of Grammatical Case by Russian-German Bilingual Children
2024
Marit Kristine Westergaard,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Kamil Długosz,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
The effect of structural similarity in bidirectional cross-linguistic influence:Case and gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2 learners
2024
Guro Busterud,
Terje Lohndal,
Toril Opsahl,
Yulia Rodina,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
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Språkendring og tap av grammatisk hunkjønn i Oslo øst og vest
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence from Norwegian and English in the production and processing of adverbs in L3 Spanish and French
2024
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
Sensitivity to microvariation in gender assignment: Evidence from mono- and bilingual native speakers of Russian
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Rosalinde Stadt,
Alicia G. Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine 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
2024
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia G. Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence from Norwegian and English in the production and processing of adverbs in Spanish and French.
2024
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Sentence processing and comprehension by child heritage bilinguals
2024
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Helene Ruud Jensberg,
Terje Lohndal,
Björn Lundquist
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Embedded V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language
2023
Helene Ruud Jensberg,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Terje Lohndal,
Bjorn Lundquist,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Embedded V2 in American Norwegian
2023
Brechje van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Rosalinde Stadt,
Alicia Luque,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Cross-linguistic influence from English as a heritage language in L3 acquisition
2023
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Research interests
First, second/third, and bilingual language acquisition, syntactic variation, heritage languages, language attrition, diachronic change, comparative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian (especially North Norwegian dialects), Russian, German
Personal website: https://site.uit.no/maritwestergaard/
Member of research group
Member of project
A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender (MultiGender): Acquisition, Variation & Change - CAS (2019-2022)
Bilingual Literacy and Input Negotiates Knowledge: Tracing Heritage Language Bilingual Development (BLINK) - MSCA (2018-2021)
Multiple Perspectives on Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon (GenBiLex) - MSCA (2017-2020)
Microvariation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situations (MiMS) - RCN (2016-2021)
Multilingual Minds (MuMin)
Multilingual Minds: Grammar Interaction in Multilingual Acquisition (MuMiN) - RCN (2021-2025)
Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism (ADIM) - EEA Norway grants (2022 - 2024)
CLEAR - Cross-linguistic influence during real-time processing in child heritage speakers
AcqCESS - Acquisition & Attrition: Crosslinguistic Effects of Structural Similarity
MultiBridge - Bridging the Gap Between Multilingual Research and Society
Multilingual Minds: Grammar Interaction in Multilingual Acquisition (MuMiN) - RCN (2021-2025)
Across-Domain Investigations in Multilingualism (ADIM) - EEA Norway grants (2022 - 2024)
CLEAR - Cross-linguistic influence during real-time processing in child heritage speakers
AcqCESS - Acquisition & Attrition: Crosslinguistic Effects of Structural Similarity
MultiBridge - Bridging the Gap Between Multilingual Research and Society