Isabel Nadine Jensen

• Kubota, Maki; Gonzalez Alonso, Jorge; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Luque, Alicia; Pereira Soares, Sergio Miguel & Prystauka, Yanina [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory. Language Learning. ISSN 0023-8333. doi: 10.1111/lang.12608. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly affected by NN exposure. The more exposure the NN nonnatives had, the larger the P600 was, driven by the presence of number agreement (ungrammatical in NN). In contrast, less exposure correlated to the inverse: P600 driven by the absence of number agreement (ungrammatical in most other dialects). The NN natives showed P600 driven by the presence of number agreement regardless of exposure. These findings suggests that bilectalism entails the representation of distinct mental grammars for each dialect. However, like all instances of bilingualism, bilectalism exists on a continuum whereby linguistic processing is modulated by linguistic experience.

• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit (2022). Syntax Matters: Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Similarity in Third Language Acquisition. Language Learning. ISSN 0023-8333. p. 1–29. doi: 10.1111/lang.12525. Full text in Research Archive
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit (2021). Flaskehalshypotesen: Syntaks og morfologi blant norske andrespråksinnlærere av engelsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 39(1), p. 97–121. Full text in Research Archive
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana & Westergaard, Marit (2021). Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules. International Journal of Multilingualism. ISSN 1479-0718. p. 1–18. doi: 10.1080/14790718.2021.1985127. Full text in Research Archive
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit & Lundquist, Bjørn (2019). The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English. Second Language Research. ISSN 0267-6583. p. 1–27. doi: 10.1177/0267658318825067. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the experiment presented here, the predictions of this hypothesis are tested in the second language (L2) English of Norwegian native speakers. Two constructions are investigated that do not match in English and Norwegian: One involving functional morphology, subject–verb (SV) agreement, which is obligatory in the L2 but non-existent in the first language (L1), and one involving syntax, verb-second (V2) word order, which is obligatory in the L1, but restricted to specific contexts in the L2. The results of an acceptability judgement task indicate that the participants struggled more with identifying ungrammatical SV agreement than ungrammatical word order. We conclude that the findings lend tentative support to the Bottleneck Hypothesis.

• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Slabakova, Roumyana & Westergaard, Marit (2017). The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: A study of L1 Norwegian speakers’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English. In LaMendola, Maria & Scott, Jennifer (Ed.), Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press. ISSN 978-1-57473-176-7. p. 333–346. doi: 10.1177/0267658318825067.

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• Castle, Chloe Michelle; Malarski, Kamil; Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Jensberg, Helene Ruud (2023). Orientation towards the vernacular in the first-generation Polish migrant community speaking Norwegian in Norway.
• Malarski, Kamil; Castle, Chloe Michelle; Jensberg, Helene & Jensen, Isabel Nadine (2023). Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway.
• Castle, Chloe Michelle; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia & Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (2023). Investigating CLI in multilingual acquisition through an artificial language.
• Castle, Chloe Michelle; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia & Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (2023). Investigating CLI in L3 morphosyntax through artificial languages: Aliensk.
• Malarski, Kamil; Castle, Chloe Michelle & Jensen, Isabel Nadine (2023). Polish learners and the Norwegian Language: So many dialects!
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (2022). Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition.
• Westergaard, Marit & Jensen, Isabel Nadine (2022). Comparing lexical and syntactic similarity in L3 acquisition: Norwegian-English bilinguals learning an artificial language.
• Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Andersen, Merete; Kubota, Maki; González, Jorge Ángel; Prystauka, Yanina & Jensen, Isabel Nadine [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2022). Bidialectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory.
• González Alonso, Jorge; Kubota, Maki; Andersen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Luque, Alicia & Pereira Soares, Sergio Miguel [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Bidialectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory.
• Castle, Chloe Michelle; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Velnic, Marta & Westergaard, Marit (2022). Studying crosslinguistic influence in L3 by means of artificial language learning experiments.
• Kubota, Maki; González Alonso, Jorge; Luque, Alicia; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Prystauka, Yanina & Soares, Sergio Miguel Pereira [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Bidialectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory.
• Kubota, Maki; González Alonso, Jorge; Andersen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Luque, Alicia & Soares, Sergio Miguel Pereira [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Bidialectal exposure modulates neural signatures to conflicting grammatical properties: Norway as a natural laboratory.
• Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Kubota, Maki; González Alonso, Jorge; Andersen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Luque, Alicia [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Nordnorske predikative adjektiv og bilektalitet: En ERP-studie av grammatisk følsomhet hos talere med ulik eksponering for nordnorsk dialekt.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit (2022). Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit (2022). Exploring the effect of linguistic similarity in third language acquisition.
• Westergaard, Marit & Jensen, Isabel Nadine (2022). Exploring the effect of similarity in L3 acquisition of a miniature artificial language.
• González Alonso, Jorge; Kubota, Maki; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Luque, Alicia; Pereira Soares, Sergio M. & Prystauka, Yanina [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2021). Degree of Bidialectal Exposure Modulates Sensitivity to Conflicting Grammatical Properties across Closely Related Varieties: An ERP Study. .
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Westergaard, Marit (2021). Exploring the effect of similarity in third language acquisition of a miniature artificial language.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana & Westergaard, Marit (2021). Bilingual transfer across linguistic modules.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Anderssen, Merete; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana & Westergaard, Marit (2019). Does L1 Transfer Explain Everything in L2 Acquisition?
• Slabakova, Roumyana; Anderssen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2019). L1 transfer in early L2 acquisition across linguistic modules .
• Slabakova, Roumyana; Anderssen, Merete; Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia & Westergaard, Marit (2019). Crosslinguistic influence in L3 Acquisition across linguistic modules.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine & Kolb, Nadine (2019). Flerspråklighet i skolen i et språkforskerperspektiv.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine (2018). Revisiting the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English.
• Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Westergaard, Marit & Slabakova, Roumyana (2022). Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition. . UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

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