Marit Westergaard

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According to Wikipedia, Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard is a Norwegian linguist, known for her work on child language acquisition and multilingualism. She defended her PhD thesis The Development of Word Order in Norwegian Child Language: The Interaction of Input and Economy Principles in the Acquisition of V2 at the University of Tromsø in 2005. She was hired as a professor at the University of Tromsø in 2009, and also has held an adjunct professor position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology since 2015. She has been a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 2016.

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Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model (2017) (183)
The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, Information Structure, and Economy (2009) (101)
Wh-questions, V2, and the Left Periphery of Three Norwegian Dialect types (2005) (99)
Grammatical gender in bilingual Norwegian-Russian Acquisition: The role of input and transparency (2017) (75)
Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition (2019) (63)
Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany (2019) (59)
Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition? (2016) (52)
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed? (2020) (50)
Word order in wh-questions in a North Norwegian dialect: some evidence from an acquisition study (2003) (49)
Microvariation as diachrony: A view from acquisition (2009) (47)
The (Non-) Effect of Input Frequency on the Acquisition of Word Order in Norwegian Embedded Clauses (2005) (46)
Language Acquisition and Language Change: Inter-relationships (2007) (46)
Unlearning V2: Transfer, markedness, and the importance of input cues in the acquisition of word order in English by Norwegian children (2003) (44)
Acquisition and change: On the robustness of the triggering experience for word order cues (2008) (43)
Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian (2009) (41)
A cue-based approach to the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian. (2012) (40)
The acquisition of gender and declension class in a non‐transparent system: monolinguals and bilinguals (2013) (39)
Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order (2010) (38)
Grammatical Gender in Norwegian: Language Acquisition and Language Change (2015) (36)
Linguistic variation and micro-cues in first language acquisition (2014) (36)
Syntax and Information Structure (2012) (36)
Syntax and information Structure: Verb Second variation in Middle English (2012) (33)
English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Word Order Inconsistencies from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition (2007) (33)
Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of third language acquisition (2017) (32)
Optional word order in wh-questions in two Norwegian dialects: a diachronic analysis of synchronic variation (2005) (30)
Heritage language acquisition: What it reveals and why it is important for formal linguistic theories (2019) (30)
Verb movement and subject placement in the acquisition of word order: Pragmatics or structural economy? (2008) (29)
The Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word Order in Subject and Object Shift Constructions in Norwegian (2010) (27)
Word Order in Old and Middle English: The role of information structure and first language acquisition (2009) (25)
Word Order Variation in Norwegian Possessive Constructions: Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition (2015) (23)
Norwegian child language and the history of English : The interaction of syntax and information structure in the development of word order 1 (2005) (21)
Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence From Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the United Kingdom (2020) (20)
Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language (2018) (19)
Triggering V2: The Amount of Input Needed for Parameter Setting in a Split-CP Model of Word Order (2005) (18)
Verb Second Word Order in Norwegian Heritage Language: (2019) (18)
Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser (2020) (16)
Bilinguals’ Sensitivity to Grammatical Gender Cues in Russian: The Role of Cumulative Input, Proficiency, and Dominance (2018) (16)
The interaction of input and UG in the acquisition of verb movement in a dialect of Norwegian (2005) (16)
Subject positions and information structure: the effect of frequency on acquisition and change (2011) (15)
On the Directionality of Cross-Linguistic Effects in Bidialectal Bilingualism (2017) (15)
The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison (2019) (12)
Two gender systems in one mind: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Norwegian-Russian bilinguals (2013) (12)
LEARNING AND UNLEARNING V2: ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE TRIGGERING EXPERIENCE IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (2006) (11)
Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som (2017) (11)
The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English (2020) (10)
Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and acquisition (2020) (9)
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’ (2021) (8)
Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production (2016) (8)
The acquisition of linguistic variation: Parameters vs. micro-cues (2013) (8)
On the Acquisition of Word Order in WH-Questions in theTromsø Dialect (2003) (7)
Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development (2008) (7)
The asymmetric nature of V2: Evidence from learner languages (2019) (7)
Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired. Evidence from multiple adjectives (2019) (7)
Word Order Variation in Norwegian Possessive Constructions (2015) (6)
Word order variation in late Middle English: The effect of information structure and audience design (2014) (6)
Tospråklighet og ordstilling i norske possessivkonstruksjoner (2012) (6)
Variation in the input : studies in the acquisition of word order (2011) (6)
Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective (2008) (6)
Variation in the Input (2011) (5)
Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing (2018) (5)
Complexity and conflicting grammars in language acquisition (2014) (5)
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse (2021) (4)
The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift (2018) (4)
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules (2021) (4)
Gradience and Gradualness vs Abruptness (2017) (4)
Ka korpuse fortæll? Om ordstilling i hv-spørsmål i norske dialekter (2014) (3)
Attrition via acquisition: The importance of development in small steps: A Commentary on ‘A model for L1 grammatical attrition’ (2020) (3)
Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language (2021) (3)
Full Transfer Potential in L3/Ln acquisition: Crosslinguistic influence as a property-by-property process (2022) (3)
Two gender systems in one mind (2013) (3)
Variable V2 in Norwegian heritage language (2021) (3)
Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change (2021) (3)
Syntax and Information Structure: the diverse nature of V2 in Middle English (2007) (3)
Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 English: An empirical study on Russian-German heritage bilinguals (2022) (3)
Grammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegian (2021) (3)
The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition (3)
Word order variation in late Middle English (2014) (2)
Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic heritage languages (2021) (2)
Introduction: The Nordic languages and second language acquisition theory (2010) (2)
The Bottleneck Hypothesis in second language acquisition: A study of L1 Norwegian speakers's knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English (2017) (2)
Structural and phonological cues for gender assignment in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German. Experiments with real and nonce words (2022) (2)
TRIGGERING V 2 : THE AMOUNT OF INPUT NEEDED FOR PARAMETER SETTING IN A SPLIT-CP MODEL OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE (2006) (2)
TRIGGERING V 2 : THE AMOUNT OF INPUT NEEDED FOR PARAMETER SETTING IN A SPLIT-CP MODEL OF CLAUSE STRUCTURE (2006) (2)
Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of L3 acquisition (2017) (2)
Why is Wholesale Transfer in L3 acquisition “plausible”? (2021) (2)
Word order and finiteness in acquisition (2016) (2)
Word order variation in heritage languages (2020) (2)
Item-based vs. Rule-based Learning: the Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-questions in English and Norwegian Item-based vs. Rule-based Learning 2 (2)
Generative Approaches to Second Language (L2) Acquisition and Advanced L2 Proficiency (2018) (1)
Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language (2021) (1)
L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon (2022) (1)
The acquisition of linguistic variation (2013) (1)
Language Acquisition, Microcues, Parameters, and Morphosyntactic Change (2020) (1)
Chapter 3. Word order and verb movement in Norwegian wh-questions: A comparison of production and judgment data (2017) (1)
Word order and finiteness in acquisition: A study of Norwegian and EnglishWh-questions (2016) (1)
The Sign of the V (2019) (1)
Definite NP Anaphora: A Pragmatic Approach (1987) (1)
Overgeneralization and change: The role of acquisition in diachrony (2019) (1)
Variable verb placement in embedded clauses: comparing English and Norwegian children (2014) (1)
Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language (2017) (1)
Non-target Word Order in Early Child Language: Pragmatics vs. Economy (2006) (1)
The Acquisition of (Word Order) Variation (2011) (1)
Replication Data for: Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired (2019) (0)
Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers (2022) (0)
The acquisition of English articles among L1 Dagbani L2 English learners (2020) (0)
Language control and executive control: Can studies on language processing distinguish the two? (2019) (0)
Comparing anaphora resolution in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals (2016) (0)
Micro-cues, information structure, and economy (2009) (0)
Syntax Matters: Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Similarity in Third Language Acquisition (2022) (0)
Phonological influence in bilectal speakers of Brazilian and European Portuguese (2023) (0)
Chapter 10. Language control and executive control (2019) (0)
germanic heritage languages (2021) (0)
The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation : What is and what isn ’ t innate ? (2013) (0)
Russian heritage language development in narrative contexts: Evidence from pre- and primary-school children in Norway, Germany, and the UK (2023) (0)
Note from the Editors (2014) (0)
Interactions between syntactic and lexical gender congruency in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers (2021) (0)
The acquisition of word order in yes/no -questions (2009) (0)
2 Word order in Old and Middle English : The role of (2008) (0)
Word order variation and the structure of the target language (2009) (0)
Ida Larsson, Helge Lødrup, Øystein A. Vangsnes, & Marit Westergaard (2021) (0)
The acquisition of word order in non-V2 contexts (2009) (0)
The acquisition of word order in non-subject-initial declaratives (2009) (0)
Complexity in child and adult language acquisition (2015) (0)
Acquisition of definiteness marking in Latvian : evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals (2017) (0)
Theoretical Linguistics (2019) (0)
Nordic Journal of Linguistics Special issue on the Nordic languages and second language acquisition theory (2010) (0)
The acquisition of word order in subject-initial declaratives (2009) (0)
The Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandic (2020) (0)
Syntactic contrasts in early and late Brazilian Portuguese-European Portuguese bidialectal bilinguals (2020) (0)
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The of V2 and a of-cues (2009) (0)
The Bottlenec k H ypothesis in L 2 A c q uisition : A S tudy of L 1 (2017) (0)
Proceedings from Workshop on Language Acquisition, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2006 : Introduction (2007) (0)
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian) (2021) (0)
A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions (2019) (0)
Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning (2018) (0)
Call for papers: NJL Special Issue on the Nordic Languages and Second Language Acquisition Theory (2009) (0)
Note from the Editors (2013) (0)
Running title: Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition Long title: Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language* Authors: (2017) (0)
The acquisition of word order in wh -questions (2009) (0)
Diachronic Change from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition : A Study of the Word Order of Wh-questions in Present-day Norwegian Dialects (2006) (0)

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