Books Westergaard, Marit. 2009. The Acquisition of Word
Order: Input Cues, Information Structure and Economy.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics
Today 145], Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Westergaard, Marit R. 1986. Definite NP Anaphora: A Pragmatic Approach. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. Edited work Anderssen,
Merete, Kristine Bentzen & Marit Westergaard (eds.). Forthcoming. The Acquisition of Word Order Variation: Papers from the
GLOW XXX workshop. [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics],
Springer Verlag. Merete Anderssen & Marit Westergaard (eds.). 2007. Tromsø University Working Papers in Language and Linguistics: Proceedings from Workshop on Language Acquisition, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 22. Anne Dahl, Peter Svenonius & Marit R. Westergaard (eds.). 2003. Nordlyd 31.3, University of Tromsø Working Papers on Language and Linguistics: Proceedings from the 19th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics - Acquisition. Papers 2009-2003 Rodina,
Yulia & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. ‘Cues and input frequency in
the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian.’
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. ‘Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order.’ Lingua, special issue on frequency in language development. Westergaard, Marit. Under revision. ‘Subject positions in Norwegian and the history of English: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.’ Accepted for publication in Studia Linguistica. Westergaard, Marit. Under revision. ‘The Syntax-Morphology Interface: Finiteness and Word Order in Norwegian and English Child Language.’ Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming. ‘Item-based vs. Rule-based Learning: The Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-Questions in English and Norwegian.’ Journal of Child Language. Westergaard, Marit. Forthcoming/2009. ‘Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development.’ In Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr (eds.), Diachronic Studies on Information Structure: Language Acquisition and Change [Language, Context and Cognition], Berlin: de Gruyter. Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘Microvariation as Diachrony: A View from Acquisition.’ Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 12.1, 49-79. Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘The Development of Word Order in Old and Middle English: The Role of Information Structure and First Language Acquisition.’ Diachronica 26.1, 65-102. Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective.’ In Paola Crisma & Guiseppe Longobardi (eds.), Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory, 75-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Westergaard, Marit. 2008. ‘Acquisition and Change: On the Robustness of the Triggering Experience for Word Order Cues.’ Lingua, 118.12, 1841-1863. Westergaard,
Marit. 2008. ‘Verb
Movement and Subject Placement in the
Acquisition
of Word Order: Pragmatics or Structural Economy?’ In Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Pilar
Larranaga & John Clibbens (eds.), First
Language Acquisition of
Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 45], 61-86. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins. Lightfoot,
David & Marit Westergaard. 2007. ‘Language Acquisition and Language
Change: Inter-relationships.’ Language
and Linguistics Compass 1
(5),
396-416. Westergaard,
Marit. 2007b. ‘English as a Mixed V2 Grammar: Synchronic Word Order
Inconsistencies from the Perspective of First Language Acquisition.’ STiL - Studies in Linguistics: Ciscl
Working papers on language and cognition, University of Siena,
159-178. Westergaard,
Marit & Kristine Bentzen. 2007. ‘The (non-) effect of
input
frequency
on the acquisition of word order in Norwegian embedded clauses.’ In
Insa Gülzow & Natalia Gagarina (eds.), Frequency Effects in
Language
Acquisition: Defining the Limits of Frequency as an Explanatory
Concept, [Studies on Language
Acquisi¬tion], 271-306.
Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter. Westergaard,
Marit R. 2006.
‘Triggering V2: The Amount of
Input Needed for Parameter Setting in a
Split-CP Model of Word Order.’ In Adriana Belletti, Elisa
Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa DiDomenico & Ida Ferrari (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development:
Proceedings of GALA 2005, 564-577. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars
Press.
Westergaard,
Marit R. 2005a. ‘Optional
Word Order in Wh-Questions
in Two Norwegian Dialects: A Diachronic Analysis of Synchronic
variation.’ Nordic
Journal of Linguistics 28.2,
269-296. (pre-publication version) Westergaard,
Marit R. 2005b. ‘Norwegian
Child Language and the History of English: The Interaction of Syntax
and
Information Structure in the Development of Word Order.’ In
Kevin McCafferty, Tove Bull & Kristin Killie (eds.), Contexts - Historical, Social, Linguistic.
Studies in Celebration of Toril Swan, 293-310.
Bern: Peter Lang. (pre-publication
version) Westergaard,
Marit R. & Øystein A. Vangsnes.
2005. ‘Wh-questions,
V2, and the left periphery of three Norwegian dialects.’ Journal
of Comparative Germanic
Linguistics 8, 117-158. Westergaard.
Marit R. 2004. ‘The
Interaction of
Input and UG in the Acquisition of Verb Movement in a Dialect of
Norwegian.’ Nordlyd 32.1: Tromsø Working
Papers in Language Acquisition, 110-134. Westergaard,
Marit R. 2003a. ‘Word Order in Wh-Questions in
a North
Norwegian Dialect: Some Evidence from an Acquisition Study.’ Nordic
Journal
of Linguistics 26.1,
81-109. Westergaard,
Marit R. 2003b. ‘On the
Acquisition
of Word Order in Wh-Questions in
the Tromsø Dialect.’ In P. Svenonius, A. Dahl
and M. R. Westergard (eds.), Nordlyd 31.3: Proceedings
from the 19th
Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, 589-605. Westergaard,
Marit R. 2003c. ‘Unlearning
V2:
Transfer, Markedness, and the Importance of Input Cues in the
Acquisition of
Word Order in English by Norwegian Children.’ EUROSLA Yearbook 3, 77-101. Hellekjær,
Glenn O. & Marit R. Westergaard.
2003. ‘An Exploratory Survey of Content Learning through English at
Scandinavian Universities.’ In C. van Leeuwen & R. Wilkinson (eds.), Multilingual
Approaches in University Education: Challenges and Practices, Uitgeverij
Valkhof Pers,
Nijmegen and Talencentrum Universiteit Maastricht, 65-80. Popularization Rice, Curt & Marit Westergaard. 2008. ‘Barn påvirker språket.’ [Children affect the language] Labyrint, no. 1, 47. Work in Progress Kemenade, Ans van & Marit Westergaard.
In prep. ‘Syntax and Information Structure: The diverse nature of V2 in
Middle English.’ To be submitted to volume on Information structure in
language change, [Oxford Studies in the History of English], Oxford
University Press. Westergaard, Marit & Kristine Bentzen. In prep. ‘The Effect of Input and Economy on the Acquisition of Embedded Word Order in English.’ Bentzen, Kristine, Anne Dahl & Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘Embedded Word Order the Second Time Around: Transfer, Economy and Input Frequency in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language.’ Westergaard, Marit. In prep. ‘On the Word Order of Wh-Questions in North Norwegian dialects.’ In Peter Svenonius (ed.), …. |