Marta Velnić
Biographic Data
| ID | 6742645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Velnić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Velnić |
| SIGNATURE | VELNIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2523-4570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
She is playing with my car
This study investigates possessive pronoun placement in Norwegian-Italian bilingual children, focusing on the potential effects of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and the impact of heritage language status. Both Norwegian and Italian allow prenominal and postnominal possessives, but their contextual distributions are inverse across the two languages. Twenty-four bilingual children residing in Norway completed an elicitation task in both language…
CLI, proficiency and L1-like choices
The roles of structural and lexical similarity in cross-linguistic influence in the L3 at higher proficiency levels are under researched. This study investigates the L3 Norwegian of such speakers. In alignment with the Linguistic Proximity Model (Westergaard et al., 2017), we assume that L3 structures are initially weak representations, becoming increasingly target-like with further input and use. We investigate what target this represents – the …
Can lexical and morphosyntactic dialect features be acquired by L3 speakers? The case of Poles in Tromsø
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: There is scant literature on second dialect acquisition for both L1 and L2 speakers (Drummond, 2013; Gnevsheva et al., 2022), with no literature on L3 speakers. In this article, we focus on dialect acquisition in multilinguals, in participants’ third or additional language acquired in adulthood. We explore this in the context of Norway, a country with significant dialectal variation and where dialec…
Singular NPs and the expression of genericity in Norwegian
This paper explores the capacity of singular noun phrases (NPs) to express genericity in Norwegian, examining how definite, indefinite, and bare singular forms map onto generic meanings. A timed acceptability judgment task was used to investigate how each form correlates with generic expressions, delving into the subtleties of their usage in native language. Thirty-three Norwegian native speakers completed the study. Our results indicate that all…
The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian
Foreign-accented speech has been explored from various perspectives, yet the current study is one of the first to investigate the role of accentedness in relation to acceptability judgements in multilingual acquisition. We consider possible interactions of two domains, phonology and syntax, by presenting learners of L3 Norwegian with an Acceptability Judgement Task focusing on eight morphosyntactic properties. Stimuli were recorded with Polish, E…
Acquisition of genericity in L2 English
This study explores the acquisition of genericity in English as a second language (L2) by analysing judgments of singular noun phrases' acceptability across generic contexts. We sampled three groups acquiring L2 English: L1-Norwegian L2-English learners, L1-Polish L2-English learners (bilingual group), and L1 Polish L2 English learners also acquiring Norwegian as a third language (multilingual group). Our findings confirm a selective effect of na…
The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian
This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or followed the new referent. DODs were found to be high…
Of good thieves and old friends
Croatian adjectives have two forms in the masculine gender: the Long (L) form and the Short (S) form. The main distributional difference is that the Short adjective can be in predicative position and the Long one cannot, while both can be in attributive position. This difference between attributive and predicative can be related to a variety of other cross-linguistic distributions concerning adjectives (Alexiadou 2001). It has been stated (Aljovi…
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Of good thieves and old friends
Croatian adjectives have two forms in the masculine gender: the Long (L) form and the Short (S) form. The main distributional difference is that the Short adjective can be in predicative position and the Long one cannot, while both can be in attributive position. This difference between attributive and predicative can be related to a variety of other cross-linguistic distributions concerning adjectives (Alexiadou 2001). It has been stated (Aljovi…
The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian
This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or followed the new referent. DODs were found to be high…
Singular NPs and the expression of genericity in Norwegian
This paper explores the capacity of singular noun phrases (NPs) to express genericity in Norwegian, examining how definite, indefinite, and bare singular forms map onto generic meanings. A timed acceptability judgment task was used to investigate how each form correlates with generic expressions, delving into the subtleties of their usage in native language. Thirty-three Norwegian native speakers completed the study. Our results indicate that all…
The role of accentedness in acceptability judgements in L3 Norwegian
Foreign-accented speech has been explored from various perspectives, yet the current study is one of the first to investigate the role of accentedness in relation to acceptability judgements in multilingual acquisition. We consider possible interactions of two domains, phonology and syntax, by presenting learners of L3 Norwegian with an Acceptability Judgement Task focusing on eight morphosyntactic properties. Stimuli were recorded with Polish, E…
Acquisition of genericity in L2 English
This study explores the acquisition of genericity in English as a second language (L2) by analysing judgments of singular noun phrases' acceptability across generic contexts. We sampled three groups acquiring L2 English: L1-Norwegian L2-English learners, L1-Polish L2-English learners (bilingual group), and L1 Polish L2 English learners also acquiring Norwegian as a third language (multilingual group). Our findings confirm a selective effect of na…
She is playing with my car
This study investigates possessive pronoun placement in Norwegian-Italian bilingual children, focusing on the potential effects of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and the impact of heritage language status. Both Norwegian and Italian allow prenominal and postnominal possessives, but their contextual distributions are inverse across the two languages. Twenty-four bilingual children residing in Norway completed an elicitation task in both language…
CLI, proficiency and L1-like choices
The roles of structural and lexical similarity in cross-linguistic influence in the L3 at higher proficiency levels are under researched. This study investigates the L3 Norwegian of such speakers. In alignment with the Linguistic Proximity Model (Westergaard et al., 2017), we assume that L3 structures are initially weak representations, becoming increasingly target-like with further input and use. We investigate what target this represents – the …
Can lexical and morphosyntactic dialect features be acquired by L3 speakers? The case of Poles in Tromsø
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: There is scant literature on second dialect acquisition for both L1 and L2 speakers (Drummond, 2013; Gnevsheva et al., 2022), with no literature on L3 speakers. In this article, we focus on dialect acquisition in multilinguals, in participants’ third or additional language acquired in adulthood. We explore this in the context of Norway, a country with significant dialectal variation and where dialec…
Linguistics (6 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Dative case (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works)