Eirik Tengesdal

About

Teaching

I am an Assistant Professor of Norwegian, and teach in topics like language development, multilingualism, language environment, language disorders and literature for children.

Academic interests

Scandinavian languages
Clinical linguistics and language acquisition
Multilingualism
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Psycholinguistics
Norwegian in America
Corpus linguistics
Computational linguistics and language technology
Forensic linguistics

Background

Higher education in linguistics and language studies from University of Oslo.

PhD student in Scandinavian Languages at Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, UiO. Guest researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2020. I do research on prosodic variation and its relation to word order in particle verbs
MA Degree in Linguistics, UiO, 2015. Thesis named [Stops in Bjerkreim. A synchronic analysis of preaspiration and voiceless lenes]
BA Degree in Japanese Language, 40 ECTS in Linguistics and in Mandarin Chinese, UiO, 2012

Field of study

Child language Phonology Prosody Phonetics Clinical linguistics

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

PolkaNorski Implemented
The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.

Scientific publications

Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Lundquist, Björn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik ; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Türker, Emel; Fyndanis, Valantis (2024). Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language. Second Language Research. Vol. 41.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241227709

Tengesdal, Eirik ; Larsson, Ida; Lundquist, Björn (2024). Prosodic Variation in Particle Constructions in Three Norwegian Dialect Areas. Maal og Minne. Vol. 116.
https://doi.org/10.52145/mom.v116i2.2316

Larsson, Ida; Tengesdal, Eirik (2022). Argument placement in Danish. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.5617/nals.10102

Lundquist, Björn; Tengesdal, Eirik (2022). Argument placement in Norwegian. Nordic Atlas of Language Structures (NALS) Journal. Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.5617/nals.10099

Brinkerhoff, Mykel Loren; Tengesdal, Eirik (2021). MATCHING Phrases in Norwegian Object Shift. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology.
https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.4921

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. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688002

Tengesdal, Eirik ; Lundquist, Bjørn (2021). Trykkplasseringa i latinske lånord og partikkelverb i tre norske dialektområde. Hagen, Kristin; Kristoffersen, Gjert; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Ed.). p. 129-154. Novus Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31302

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. Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.5617/nals.7529

These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.