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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
Bentzen, Kristine & Marit Westergaard. In progress. Special issue of Studia Linguistica on the acquisition of linguistic variation.
Anderssen, Merete, Kristine Bentzen & Marit Westergaard (eds.). 2010. Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order. [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 39], Springer Verlag.
Bohnacker, Ute & Marit Westergaard (eds.). 2010. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 33.02, special issue on second language acquisition.
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 2012-2003
Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. ‘The acquisition of grammatical gender: bilinguals vs. monolinguals.’ Studia Linguistica.
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. ‘Tospråklighet og ordstilling i norske possessivkonstruksjoner.’ [Bilingualism and word order in Norwegian possessive constructions]. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift [Norwegian Journal of Linguistics].
Westergaard, Marit. Submitted. ‘Word order and finiteness in acquisition: A study of English and Norwegian wh-questions.’ Special volume on finiteness, John Benjamins.
Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. Forthcoming/2011. ‘Cues and input frequency in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian.’ Journal of Child Language.
Kemenade, Ans van & Marit Westergaard. Forthcoming/2012. ‘Syntax and Information Structure: V2 Variation in Middle English.’ Volume on information structure in language change, Oxford Studies in the History of English, Oxford University Press.
Westergaard, Marit. 2011. ‘Subject positions and information structure: The effect of frequency on acquisition and change.’ Studia Linguistica 3, 299-332.
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. 2010. ‘Frequency and economy in the acquisition of variable word order.’ Lingua 120.11, 2569-2588.
Westergaard, Marit. 2010. ‘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.
Anderssen, Merete, Kristine Bentzen, Yulia Rodina & Marit Westergaard. 2010. ‘The Acquisition of Apparent Optionality: Word Order in Subject and Object shift Constructions in Norwegian.’ In Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen & Marit Westergaard (eds.), Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order. [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 39], 241-270, Springer Verlag.
Anderssen, Merete, Kristine Bentzen & Marit Westergaard. 2010. ‘The acquisition of (word order) variation.’ In Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen and Marit Westergaard (eds.), Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order. [Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 39], 1-15, Springer Verlag.
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. 2010. ‘On the Impact of frequency in the acquisition of variable word order.’ In Katie Franich, Kate M. Iserman & Lauren L. Keil (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 1: 1-10. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Westergaard, Marit & Kristine Bentzen. 2010. ‘Word order and finite¬ness in the acquistion of English and Norwegian wh-questions.’ In Katie Franich, Kate M. Iserman & Lauren L. Keil (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 2: 457-467. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Westergaard, Marit. 2009. ‘Item-based vs. Rule-based Learning: The Acquisition of Word Order in Wh-Questions in English and Norwegian.’ Journal of Child Language 36.5, 1023-1051.
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.
Westergaard,
Marit. 2008. ‘Hvordan
barn
lærer språk: En sammenligning mellom ordstilling i engelsk
og norsk.’ [How children learn language: A comparison between word
order in English and Norwegian]. BARN
3, 21-35.
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. 2007a. ‘Learning
and Unlearning V2: On the Robustness
of the
Triggering Experience in a Historical Perspective.’ In M.
Cecila Picchi & Alan Pona (eds.),
Proceedings of the XXXII Incontro di
Grammatica Generativa. 193-207. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
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. 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.
Kristine Bentzen, Marit Westergaard & Merete Anderssen. Submitted. ‘Vet du kor du bør helst sette inn verbet hen? Om verbplassering i nordnorsk.’ Special CASTL issue of Ottar.
Westergaard, Marit, Merete Anderssen & Kristine Bentzen. Submitted. ‘Det vil æ ikke eller det vil ikke æ: Ordstilling i nordnorsk barnespråk.’ Special CASTL issue of Ottar.
Anderssen, Merete, Kristine Bentzen & Marit Westergaard. Submitted. ‘Min bil eller bilen min: Eiendomskonstruksjoner i norsk barnespråk og amerikanorsk.’ Special CASTL issue of Ottar.
Work in Progress
Rodina, Yulia and Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘The acquisition of gender: A bilingual case study.’ Proceedings of GALA 2011. Cambridge Scholars Press.
Anderssen, Merete & Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘Word Order Variation in Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition: The Case of Norwegian Possessive Constructions.’ Special volume on Norwegian in America, John Benjamins (Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons (eds)).
Lohndal, Terje, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Marit Westergaard. In prep. Verb movement in matrix wh-questions in Norwegian dialects: Microvariation and diachrony.’
Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘Two gender systems in one mind: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian-Norwegian bilinguals.’ In Multi-lingualism and Language Contact in Urban Areas: Acquisition – Development – Teaching – Communication, Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, Vol. 1, John Benjamins.
Westergaard, Marit. In prep. ‘On the Word Order of Wh-Questions in North Norwegian dialects.’ In Peter Svenonius (ed.), volume on the syntax of Norwegian dialects, John Benjamins.
Westergaard, Marit. In prep. ‘The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation: Parameters vs. Micro-cues.’ For a Festschrift to be published by John Benjamins, 2013.
Planned Work
Bentzen, Kristine, Tom Roeper & Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘The Interpretation of Embedded V2.’
Bentzen, Kristine, Irene Franco & Marit Westergaard. In prep. ‘The Acquisition of Relative Clauses.’
Bentzen, Kristine, Caroline Heycock, Antonella Sorace and Marit Westergaard. ‘Priming Effects in the Acquisition of Embedded Word Order in English and Norwegian.’
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