Pernille Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4609704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pernille Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pernille |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3785-0132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Grammar Bias Index
Research over the past decades has demonstrated that the development of children’s early grammar skills is closely related to the expansion of their vocabulary. However, recent studies have shown that children’s age plays a separate role in the development of grammar skills, beyond its role as a driving force for vocabulary growth, and that it is possible to distinguish between children’s vocabulary and grammar as two overlapping but different ty…
Perspectives on multilingualism in Norway and Poland
Although research shows benefits of multilingualism, negative beliefs are present in Western societies. This study explores beliefs and attitudes towards multilingualism among majority and minority language speakers in two European countries: the more multilingual Norway and the more monolingual Poland. We hypothesised more positivity in Norway than in Poland, and furthermore that minority language speakers would be more positive than majority la…
Are parental perceptions of child language skills and language environment reflected in direct bilingual assessment? A study of Polish-Norwegian preschool children
Although multilingualism is common, most available tools for assessing children’s language development are normed on and intended for monolingual populations. This study investigates the language skills of children of Polish parents growing up in Norway, using two tools created for multilingual assessment: a parental report, Parents of Bilingual Children Questionnaire (PaBiQ; Tuller Citation2015) and a direct assessment of vocabulary, Cross-Lingu…
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers
In this longitudinal study, we compare the age of reaching early developmental milestones in bilingual and monolingual children and between the bilinguals’ two languages. We present data from 302 Polish bilinguals (living outside of Poland with various majority languages) and 302 Polish monolinguals, aged M = 12.78 months on study entry (range: 0 – 24 months), matched on sex, age at study entry, duration of parental reporting, and parental educat…
Seek, and you will find? Word finding in multilingual dementia
Purpose: Among the first linguistic symptoms of several types of dementia are word-finding problems. Multilinguals with dementia may have stronger difficulties, as multilinguals are found to retrieve words more slowly than monolinguals, possibly due to larger vocabularies and the additional cognitive load of suppressing non-target languages. A deeper insight into the factors that influence word retrieval and trigger word-search sequences in multi…
Word searching in multilingual dementia
Aims and objectives: This study investigates how multilingual speakers with dementia mobilise their multilingual and interactional resources when searching for words in a naming test setting, and how their word-search behaviour relates to lexical retrieval processes characteristic of multilinguals, as well as to aspects of cognitive decline. Methodology and approach: The study takes an interdisciplinary approach by combining conversation analysis…
Searching for words
To investigate how children organise their vocabularies, we can analysethe errors they make when unable to retrieve a word. Analysis ofnaming errors has not been sufficiently explored in the first language (L1) of bilingual children. We employed a picture naming task toinvestigate the types of errors made by 142 bilingual and 119monolingual children aged 3-7 years. Children named actions andobjects in their L1 (Polish). We categorised children’s …
Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory
To date, the evidence regarding the effect of bilingualism/multilingualism on short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) capacity is inconclusive. This study investigates whether multilingualism has a positive effect on the verbal STM and WM capacity of neurotypical middle-aged and older individuals. Eighty-two L1-Norwegian sequential bilingual/multilingual academics were tested with tasks measuring verbal STM/WM capacity. Degree of bilingua…
Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language
Young children simplify word initial consonant clusters by omitting or substituting one (or both) of the elements. Vocalic insertion, coalescence and metathesis are said to be used more seldom (McLeod, van Doorn & Reed, 2001). Data from Norwegian children, however, have shown vocalic insertion to be more frequently used (Simonsen, 1990; Simonsen, Garmann & Kristoffersen, 2019). To investigate the extent to which children use this strategy to diff…
Females have more complex patterns of childhood adversity
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as an important public health problem with serious implications. Less well understood is how distinct configurations of childhood adversities carry differential risks for mental health, emotional, and social outcomes later in life.Objective: To determine if distinct profiles of childhood adversities exist for males and females and to examine if unique associations exist between…
No implementation without cultural adaptation
The proposed four-step process offers a useful guide for how to adapt low-intensity psychological intervention within humanitarian settings. Despite some limitations, we show that even when time and resources are scarce it is possible and necessary to culturally adapt psychological interventions. We invite further testing, replication, and improvements to this methodology
The Cultural and Contextual Adaptation Process of an Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress in Young Adolescents Living in Lebanon
Armed conflict leads to increased risk of emotional distress among children and adolescents, and increased exposure to significant daily stressors such as poverty and community and family violence. Unfortunately, these increased risks usually occur in the context of largely unavailable mental health services. There is growing empirical support that evidence-based treatment techniques can be adapted and delivered by non-specialists with high fidel…
Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires
Purpose: As a contribution to the endeavour of developing appropriate tools for bilingual language assessment, this paper investigates the concurrence between two new tools from the recent COST Action IS0804 (Bi-SLI), and the differences between children across two different migrant communities. Approach: Two new tools from the battery Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) were used: the direct assessment tool Cross-lingui…
User-Centered App Adaptation of a Low-Intensity E-Mental Health Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Introduction: The aim of this study is to describe the initial stages of the iterative and user-centered mobile mental health adaptation process of Step-by-Step (SbS), a modularized and originally web-based e-mental health intervention developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Given the great need for improving the responsiveness and accessibility of health systems in host countries, the EU-funded STRENGTHS consortium studies the adaptati…
What makes a word easy to acquire? The effects of word class, frequency, imageability and phonological neighbourhood density on lexical development
This article analyses how a set of psycholinguistic factors may account for children’s lexical development. Age of acquisition is compared to a measure of lexical development based on vocabulary size rather than age, and robust regression models are used to assess the individual and joint effects of word class, frequency, imageability and phonological neighbourhood density on Norwegian children’s early lexical development. The Norwegian Communica…
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What makes a word easy to acquire? The effects of word class, frequency, imageability and phonological neighbourhood density on lexical development
This article analyses how a set of psycholinguistic factors may account for children’s lexical development. Age of acquisition is compared to a measure of lexical development based on vocabulary size rather than age, and robust regression models are used to assess the individual and joint effects of word class, frequency, imageability and phonological neighbourhood density on Norwegian children’s early lexical development. The Norwegian Communica…
Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires
Purpose: As a contribution to the endeavour of developing appropriate tools for bilingual language assessment, this paper investigates the concurrence between two new tools from the recent COST Action IS0804 (Bi-SLI), and the differences between children across two different migrant communities. Approach: Two new tools from the battery Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) were used: the direct assessment tool Cross-lingui…
User-Centered App Adaptation of a Low-Intensity E-Mental Health Intervention for Syrian Refugees
Introduction: The aim of this study is to describe the initial stages of the iterative and user-centered mobile mental health adaptation process of Step-by-Step (SbS), a modularized and originally web-based e-mental health intervention developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Given the great need for improving the responsiveness and accessibility of health systems in host countries, the EU-funded STRENGTHS consortium studies the adaptati…
Females have more complex patterns of childhood adversity
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as an important public health problem with serious implications. Less well understood is how distinct configurations of childhood adversities carry differential risks for mental health, emotional, and social outcomes later in life.Objective: To determine if distinct profiles of childhood adversities exist for males and females and to examine if unique associations exist between…
No implementation without cultural adaptation
The proposed four-step process offers a useful guide for how to adapt low-intensity psychological intervention within humanitarian settings. Despite some limitations, we show that even when time and resources are scarce it is possible and necessary to culturally adapt psychological interventions. We invite further testing, replication, and improvements to this methodology
The Cultural and Contextual Adaptation Process of an Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress in Young Adolescents Living in Lebanon
Armed conflict leads to increased risk of emotional distress among children and adolescents, and increased exposure to significant daily stressors such as poverty and community and family violence. Unfortunately, these increased risks usually occur in the context of largely unavailable mental health services. There is growing empirical support that evidence-based treatment techniques can be adapted and delivered by non-specialists with high fidel…
Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language
Young children simplify word initial consonant clusters by omitting or substituting one (or both) of the elements. Vocalic insertion, coalescence and metathesis are said to be used more seldom (McLeod, van Doorn & Reed, 2001). Data from Norwegian children, however, have shown vocalic insertion to be more frequently used (Simonsen, 1990; Simonsen, Garmann & Kristoffersen, 2019). To investigate the extent to which children use this strategy to diff…
Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory
To date, the evidence regarding the effect of bilingualism/multilingualism on short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) capacity is inconclusive. This study investigates whether multilingualism has a positive effect on the verbal STM and WM capacity of neurotypical middle-aged and older individuals. Eighty-two L1-Norwegian sequential bilingual/multilingual academics were tested with tasks measuring verbal STM/WM capacity. Degree of bilingua…
Seek, and you will find? Word finding in multilingual dementia
Purpose: Among the first linguistic symptoms of several types of dementia are word-finding problems. Multilinguals with dementia may have stronger difficulties, as multilinguals are found to retrieve words more slowly than monolinguals, possibly due to larger vocabularies and the additional cognitive load of suppressing non-target languages. A deeper insight into the factors that influence word retrieval and trigger word-search sequences in multi…
Word searching in multilingual dementia
Aims and objectives: This study investigates how multilingual speakers with dementia mobilise their multilingual and interactional resources when searching for words in a naming test setting, and how their word-search behaviour relates to lexical retrieval processes characteristic of multilinguals, as well as to aspects of cognitive decline. Methodology and approach: The study takes an interdisciplinary approach by combining conversation analysis…
Searching for words
To investigate how children organise their vocabularies, we can analysethe errors they make when unable to retrieve a word. Analysis ofnaming errors has not been sufficiently explored in the first language (L1) of bilingual children. We employed a picture naming task toinvestigate the types of errors made by 142 bilingual and 119monolingual children aged 3-7 years. Children named actions andobjects in their L1 (Polish). We categorised children’s …
Grammar Bias Index
Research over the past decades has demonstrated that the development of children’s early grammar skills is closely related to the expansion of their vocabulary. However, recent studies have shown that children’s age plays a separate role in the development of grammar skills, beyond its role as a driving force for vocabulary growth, and that it is possible to distinguish between children’s vocabulary and grammar as two overlapping but different ty…
Perspectives on multilingualism in Norway and Poland
Although research shows benefits of multilingualism, negative beliefs are present in Western societies. This study explores beliefs and attitudes towards multilingualism among majority and minority language speakers in two European countries: the more multilingual Norway and the more monolingual Poland. We hypothesised more positivity in Norway than in Poland, and furthermore that minority language speakers would be more positive than majority la…
Are parental perceptions of child language skills and language environment reflected in direct bilingual assessment? A study of Polish-Norwegian preschool children
Although multilingualism is common, most available tools for assessing children’s language development are normed on and intended for monolingual populations. This study investigates the language skills of children of Polish parents growing up in Norway, using two tools created for multilingual assessment: a parental report, Parents of Bilingual Children Questionnaire (PaBiQ; Tuller Citation2015) and a direct assessment of vocabulary, Cross-Lingu…
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers
In this longitudinal study, we compare the age of reaching early developmental milestones in bilingual and monolingual children and between the bilinguals’ two languages. We present data from 302 Polish bilinguals (living outside of Poland with various majority languages) and 302 Polish monolinguals, aged M = 12.78 months on study entry (range: 0 – 24 months), matched on sex, age at study entry, duration of parental reporting, and parental educat…
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