Marit Westergaard
Magdalena Wrembel,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Justyna Gruszecka,
Roumyana Slabakova,
Marta Velnić,
Marit Westergaard
:
The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian: an across-domain investigation
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Anna Skalba,
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Investigating the roles of dominance, recency, and property
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Helene Jensberg,
Terje Lohndal,
Björn Lundquist,
Marit Westergaard
:
Verb second word order and finite verb placement in North American Norwegian
2025 ARKIV
Guro Busterud,
Terje Lohndal,
Toril Opsahl,
Yulia Rodina,
Marit Westergaard
:
Language change and the loss of feminine gender: grammatical gender and declension class in the Oslo dialect
Marit Westergaard
:
Microvariation and multiple grammars
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Isabel Nadine Jensen,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Westergaard
:
Investigating crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages
Judith Schlenter,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German
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
Ute Bohnacker,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Learning and unlearning Verb Second word order
Marit Westergaard,
Judith Schlenter
:
The role of structural similarity in L3/Ln comprehension
02. October 2025 ARKIV
Charlotte Englert,
Marc Meisezahl,
Marit Westergaard,
Tanja Kupisch
:
V2 transfer in ab-initio L3 acquisition
02. October 2025 ARKIV
Serge Minor,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Kamil Długosz,
Pavel Caha,
Anna Olszewska,
Marit Westergaard
et al.:
Grammatical adaptation in verbal aspect: Ukrainian children acquiring Polish and Czech
20. October 2025 ARKIV
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Kamil Długosz,
Serge Minor,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence and the role of age: morphological case in L1 Ukrainian–L2 Polish children
20. October 2025 ARKIV
Kamil Długosz,
Anna Olszewska,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Westergaard
:
Morphophonological cues in the acquisition of grammatical gender in child L2 Polish
20. October 2025 ARKIV
Marit Westergaard
:
Multilingual Acquisition and Attrition in Small Steps
20. October 2025 ARKIV
Ewa Haman,
Ianthi Tsimpli,
Marit Westergaard
:
Multilingualism in neurotypical and neurodivergent children and adults.
15. October 2025 ARKIV
Bentolhoda Bahrani,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Serge Minor
:
Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic-Norwegian Adolescents
03. October 2025 ARKIV
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Christina Athanasiadi,
Nadine Kolb,
Marit Westergaard,
Serge Minor
:
The Role of Heritage and Societal Languages in L3 Aspect Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking
04. October 2025 ARKIV
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Roumyana Slabakova
:
Rethinking L3 Development: Is It Time to Move Beyond Full Transfer Models?
03. October 2025 ARKIV
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
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
2025 ARKIV
Brechje Antonet van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Westergaard
:
Linguistic and extra-linguistic factors affecting the production and processing of adverb placement in L3 French, German and Spanish in Norwegian-English bilingual high school students
2025 ARKIV
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Serge Minor,
Christina Athanasiadi,
Nadine Kolb,
Marit Westergaard
:
The role of heritage and societal languages in L3 aspect processing: Evidence from eye-tracking
04. September 2025 ARKIV
Annelin Eriksen,
Marit Westergaard,
Kjetil Tasken,
Terje Lohndal
:
Vitenskapsakademiet vil bruke utestemmen, også om Palestina
Annelin Eriksen,
Marit Westergaard,
Kjetil Tasken,
Terje Lohndal
:
Fem Tiltak for å sikre tillit til vitenskap - Et forslag fra Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi
Annelin Eriksen,
Marit Westergaard,
Kjetil Tasken,
Terje Lohndal
:
Under Trump er akademisk frihet under angrep
Annelin Eriksen,
Marit Westergaard,
Kjetil Tasken,
Terje Lohndal
:
Støtter forskere og forskning under press
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Investigating the Processing and Production of L3 English
Sentences by Heritage Turkish Students in Norway
2025 ARKIV
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 ARKIV
Bentolhoda Bahrani,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Sergey Minor
:
Crosslinguistic Influence in L3A: Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language by Arabic, Norwegian and Arabic Norwegian Adolescents
2025 ARKIV
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Kamil Długosz,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Sergey Minor,
Anna Olszewska,
Jakub Przybył
et al.:
The Effect of Structural Similarity in Bidirectional Cross-linguistic Influence: Case and Gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2 learners
2025 ARKIV
Marit Kristine Westergaard
:
V2 or not V2 – that is the question: Word Order Variation in Norwegian
2025 ARKIV
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Cross-Linguistic Influences on L3 Sentence Processing: Insights from Bilingual Children Using Eye-Tracking and Behavioral Methods
2025 ARKIV
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Unveiling Cross-Linguistic Influence in Multilingual Sentence Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking and Grammaticality Judgments
2025 ARKIV
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 ARKIV
Brechje van Osch,
Nadine Kolb,
Alicia Luque,
Rosalinde Stadt,
Merete Brendeford Anderssen,
Marit Westergaard
:
Cross-linguistic Influence in Norwegian-English Bilinguals Learning L3 Spanish, French, or German
2025 ARKIV
Magdalena Wrembel,
Marit Westergaard,
Roumyana Slabakova,
Marta Velnic,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Justyna Gruszecka
:
How grammatical do I sound when I am accented? The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian
2025 ARKIV
Evelina Leivada,
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta,
Camilla Masullo,
Lara Kelly-Iturriaga,
Marit Westergaard,
Jason Rothman
:
Exploring the role of language distance in bilingual cognition
2025 ARKIV
Guro Busterud,
Terje Lohndal,
Toril Opsahl,
Yulia Rodina,
Marit Westergaard
:
Language change and loss of feminine gender in the Oslo dialect
2025 ARKIV
Kamil Długosz,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova,
Marit Westergaard
:
Structural similarity and its role in cross-linguistic influence: Case and gender in Ukrainian L1 Polish L2
2025 ARKIV
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 ARKIV
Pouran Seifi,
Marit Westergaard,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Sentence processing and comprehension by child heritage bilinguals
2024 ARKIV
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 ARKIV
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Facilitative cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism: The Linguistic Proximity Model and co-activation of larger linguistic repertoires
2024 ARKIV
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard,
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Natalia Mitrofanova
:
Investigating CLI in multilingual acquisition through an artificial language
2024 ARKIV
Judith Schlenter,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
When the dative becomes less reliable – L1 attrition in a multilingual context
2024 ARKIV
Nadine Kolb,
Serge Minor,
Natalia Mitrofanova,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
L3 Processing of Verbal Aspect in English by Russian-German Bilingual Children: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
2024 ARKIV
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Sensitivity to microvariation in gender assignment to ambiguous nouns in Russian: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual native speakers
2024 ARKIV
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 ARKIV
Chloe Michelle Castle,
Anna Skalba,
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
:
Cross Linguistic Influence in L3 acquisition: Do dominance and recency play a role?
2024 ARKIV
Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard
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Multilingualism and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Theoretical considerations, research design & some empirical evidence
2024 ARKIV
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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
MOVA - Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition
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
MOVA - Multilingual Onset, Variation & Attrition