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Bilde av Westergaard, Marit
Bilde av Westergaard, Marit
Professor English Linguistics / Director of C-LaBL Department of Language and Culture marit.westergaard@uit.no +4777644256 99712171 Tromsø You can find me here

Marit Westergaard

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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/

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Member of research group

AcqVA: Acquisition, Variation & Attrition   Norsk innhold AcqVA Aurora   English content The Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab   Norsk innhold C-LaBL   English content C-LaBL   Norsk innhold C-LaBL   Norsk innhold AcqVA-Nor   English content AcqVA-Nor   Norsk innhold

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)    English content 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