Eirik Tengesdal

Doctoral Research Fellow - Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier

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Email eirik.tengesdal@iln.uio.no

Mobile phone +47 405 55 711

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 OSLO

Postal address Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 OSLO

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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

Tags: Scandinavian studies, Linguistics, Corpus, Dialects, Eye tracking

Brinkerhoff, Mykel Loren & Tengesdal, Eirik (2021). MATCHING Phrases in Norwegian Object Shift. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. ISSN 2377-3324. s 1- 10 . doi: 10.3765/amp.v9i0.4921 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
One significant contribution of generative linguistics has been to our understanding of 'movement,' which occurs when a word is linearized in a position different from where it is interpreted. Even though movement often is considered a syntactic phenomenon, some cases seem best analyzed prosodically, such as pronoun post-posing in Irish (Bennett, Elfner, & McClosky 2016). We explore prosodically driven movement in Norwegian, which is known for having pronominal object shift (OS). We show that OS can be explained by Match Theory (Selkirk 2009, 2011), but only if the MATCH constraints are sensitive to lexical items and their projects instead of Elfner's (2012) definition where Match is sensitive to lexical and functional elements and their projections (see also Ito & Mester 2019).
Garmann, Nina Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Holm, Elisabeth; Tengesdal, Eirik; Post, Brechtje & Payne, Elinor (2021). Vocalic Intrusions in Consonant Clusters in Child-Directed vs. Adult-Directed Speech. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 12, s 1- 13 . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688002 Show summary
In this paper, we investigate a prosodic-phonetic feature in child-directed speech within a dynamic, complex, interactive theoretical framework. We focus on vocalic intrusions, commonly occurring in Norwegian word initial consonant clusters. We analysed child-directed speech from nine Norwegian-speaking mothers to their children, aged 2;6, 4, and 6 years, and compared the incidence and duration of vocalic intrusions in initial consonant clusters in these data with those in adult-directed speech and child speech. When viewed overall, vocalic intrusion was found to be similar in incidence in child- and adult-directed speech. However, closer examination revealed differential behaviour in child-directed speech for certain conditions. Firstly, a difference emerged for one particular phonetic context: While vocalic intrusions in /Cr/ clusters are frequent in adult-directed speech, their presence is near-categorical in child-directed speech. Secondly, we found that the duration of vocalic intrusions was longer in child- than in adult-directed speech, but only when directed to 2;6-year-olds. We argue that vocalic intrusions in child-directed speech may have both a bonding as well as a didactic function, and that these may vary according to the age of the child being addressed.
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.

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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.

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Language processing and representation in healthy bilingual aging