Eirik Tengesdal
Doctoral Research Fellow
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Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier

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Mobile phone
+47 405 55 711
Room
HW 644
Username
Visiting address
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Henrik Wergelands hus
0313 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1102 Blindern
0317 OSLO
Academic interests
- Syntax–prosody interface
- Phonetics and phonology
- Scandinavian languages
- Norwegian in America
- Psycholinguistics
- Corpus linguistics
PhD project
In my project, I investigate word order variation in the Scandinavian languages. I primarily focus on particle constructions, within the syntax–prosody interface. The aims include elucidating the variation found in the languages, and how these constructions change diachronically.
In January–June 2020, I was a Short-Term Scholar at the Department of Linguistics at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Background
- I have worked mostly with corpus and eye tracking at UiO, and acoustic analysis at former HiOA
- Master's Degree in Linguistics from UiO, 2015. The master's thesis is called Plosivane i Bjerkreim. Ein synkron studie av preaspirasjon og klanglause lenes [Stops in Bjerkreim. A synchronic analysis of preaspiration and voiceless lenes]
- Bachelor's Degree in Japanese Language, with 40 ECTS credits in Linguistics and 40 in Mandarin Chinese from UiO, 2012
Publications
- Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud; Tengesdal, Eirik & Nøklestad, Anders (2019). Nordic Word Order Database: Motivations, methods, material and infrastructure. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. ISSN 2387-2667. 4(1), s 1- 33 . doi: 10.5617/nals.7529 Full text in Research Archive.
- Rodina, Yulia; Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Lundquist, Bjørn; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Tengesdal, Eirik & Türker-van der Heiden, Emel (2021). Second language acquisition and language processing: Grammatical gender in Norwegian.
- Brinkerhoff, Mykel Loren & Tengesdal, Eirik (2020). MATCHING Phrases in Norwegian Object Shift.
- Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia; Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes; Tengesdal, Eirik & Türker-van der Heiden, Emel (2020). Predictive gender processing in L2 adult learners of Norwegian: Effects of L1 (Greek, Russian, Turkish), syntactic and lexical congruency.
- Larsson, Ida; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westendorp, Maud; Nøklestad, Anders & Tengesdal, Eirik (2020). The Nordic Word Order Database.
- Lundquist, Bjørn; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Fyndanis, Valantis; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Türker-van der Heiden, Emel (2019). Inter-language gender congruency has facilitative effects on L2 production and comprehension of grammatical gender, but only for high-proficient speakers of structurally similar languages.
- Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud & Tengesdal, Eirik (2019). The Nordic Word Order Database: New methods for studying variation within and between speakers and varieties in North Germanic.
- Lundquist, Bjørn; Larsson, Ida; Westendorp, Maud; Tengesdal, Eirik & Nøklestad, Anders (2019). Presenting the Nordic Word Order Database.
- Lundquist, Bjørn & Tengesdal, Eirik (2019). Partikkelplassering og partikkelaksent i tre norske dialektområde i laupet av dei siste 80 åra.
- Rodina, Yulia; Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Lundquist, Bjørn; Tengesdal, Eirik & Türker-van der Heiden, Emel (2019). Grammatical gender processing in Russian second language learners of Norwegian.
- Uvaag, Paal & Tengesdal, Eirik (2019, 20. desember). På fylla med NRK. Jul og alkohol hører ikke sammen, leser vi nå i desember. Jo da!. Morgenbladet.
- Garmann, Nina Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Holm, Elisabeth; Romøren, Anna Sara Hexeberg; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Tengesdal, Eirik; Payne, Elinor & Post, Brechtje (2018). Uttaler voksene konsonantgerupper på en annen måte til barn enn til voksene?.
- Garmann, Nina Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Holm, Elisabeth; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Tengesdal, Eirik; Romøren, Anna Sara Hexeberg; Payne, Elinor & Post, Brechtje (2018). Consonant clusters in Norwegian CDS: are they produced differently from clusters in ADS?.
- Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Askeland, Anne Renette; Hagen, Kristin; Håberg, Live; Jensen, Bård Uri; Nøklestad, Anders; Priestley, Joel & Tengesdal, Eirik (2018). Utfordringa med fonetisk transkripsjon av dialekter i den digitale tidsalderen: Oslo-translitteratoren.
- Tengesdal, Eirik (2018). Empirical evidence of preaspiration and voiceless lenes in the Norwegian dialect of Bjerkreim.
- Tengesdal, Eirik (2018). LIA-prosjektet (Language Infrastructure made Accessible): målsetjingar og resultat.
- Tengesdal, Eirik; Larsson, Ida & Lundquist, Bjørn (2018). Partikelvariationer i norska dialekter.
- Tengesdal, Eirik; Uvaag, Paal & Aasarød, Askild Matre (2017, 22. desember). Askepoooooooott! Julefavoritten Tre nøtter til Askepott – en fonetisk analyse. Morgenbladet.
- Tengesdal, Eirik (2015). Preaspirasjon i bjerkreimsbu.
- Tengesdal, Eirik; Theil, Rolf & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2015). Plosivane i Bjerkreim. Ein synkron studie av preaspirasjon og klanglause lenes.
Published Jan. 26, 2018 1:28 PM
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