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  1. Micro-variation and multiple grammars

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  2. How the languages a bilingual speaks influence learning a third language

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, March 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard, Dr. Chloe Castle, Dr. Anna Skałba

  3. Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, November 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova

  4. Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, October 2023, John Benjamins

    Natalia Mitrofanova, Professor Marit Westergaard

  5. Structural similarity in third language acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, September 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova

  6. Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse

    Article • PLOS One, September 2021, PLOS

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  7. Variable V2 in Norwegian heritage language

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, May 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  8. L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Response to commentaries on the keynote ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’

    Article • Second language Research, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  9. The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, March 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  10. On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, May 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  11. Word order variation in heritage languages

    Article • May 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  12. Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence From Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom

    Article • Frontiers in Education, March 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  13. Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2020, Frontiers

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  14. Overgeneralization and change: The role of acquisition in diachrony

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  15. Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition

    Article • Second language Research, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  16. Attrition via acquisition: The importance of development in small steps: A Commentary on ‘A model for L1 grammatical attrition’ by Glyn Hicks and Laura Domínguez

    Article • Second language Research, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  17. Heritage language acquisition: What it reveals and why it is important for formal linguistic theories

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  18. Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired. Evidence from multiple adjectives

    Article • PeerJ, August 2019, PeerJ

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  19. A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  20. The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  21. Chapter 10. Language control and executive control

    Article • June 2019, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  22. The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English

    Article • Second language Research, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  23. The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, November 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  24. Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, November 2018, John Benjamins

    Anna Wolleb, Professor Marit Westergaard

  25. Bilinguals’ Sensitivity to Grammatical Gender Cues in Russian: The Role of Cumulative Input, Proficiency, and Dominance

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  26. Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  27. Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning

    Article • Journal of Child Language, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  28. On the Directionality of Cross-Linguistic Effects in Bidialectal Bilingualism

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  29. Variation and change in Norwegianwh-questions

    Article • Linguistic Variation, June 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  30. Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  31. Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  32. Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, September 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  33. Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of third language acquisition

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jorge González Alonso, Professor Marit Westergaard

  34. Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  35. Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  36. Complexity in child and adult language acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  37. Grammatical gender in bilingual Norwegian–Russian acquisition: The role of input and transparency

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, September 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Yulia Rodina, Professor Marit Westergaard

  38. Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  39. Linguistic variation and micro-cues in first language acquisition

    Article • Linguistic Variation, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  40. Note from the Editors

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, May 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor matti Miestamo, Professor Marit Westergaard

  41. Complexity and conflicting grammars in language acquisition

    Article • Second language Research, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  42. Note from the Editors

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor matti Miestamo, Professor Marit Westergaard

  43. The acquisition of gender and declension class in a non-transparent system: monolinguals and bilinguals

    Article • Studia Linguistica, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  44. A cue-based approach to the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian

    Article • Journal of Child Language, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  45. Subject positions and information structure: the effect of frequency on acquisition and change

    Article • Studia Linguistica, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  46. Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order

    Article • Lingua, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  47. Introduction: The Nordic languages and second language acquisition theory

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, September 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  48. The Acquisition of Word Order

    Article • August 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  49. Call for papers: NJL Special Issue on the Nordic Languages and Second Language Acquisition Theory

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, June 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  50. Word Order in Old and Middle English

    Article • Diachronica, April 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  51. Microvariation as diachrony: A view from acquisition

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  52. Acquisition and change: On the robustness of the triggering experience for word order cues

    Article • Lingua, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  53. English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Word Order Inconsistencies from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  54. Wh-questions, V2, and the Left Periphery of Three Norwegian Dialect types

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  55. Unlearning V2

    Article • EUROSLA Yearbook, August 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Marit Westergaard

  56. Word order in wh-questions in a North Norwegian dialect: some evidence from an acquisition study

    Article • Nordic Journal of Linguistics, June 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Marit Westergaard