About
My research foci are language impairments and language development in mono- and multilingual speakers. I have experience with developmental language disorders (DLD), aphasia and language impairment following cognitive decline and dementia. Furthermore, I am also interested in cultural and linguistic adaptations of screening batteries for children and adults with language disorders.
I collaborate with researchers at the universities of Warsaw and Copenhagen, as well as the University of Oslo and the Specialist hospital for epilepsy.
Two research projects funded by the Dam Foundation (in Norwegian):
Words for Wellbeing - Quality of life and language disorders in adolescents and young adults: https://dam.no/prosjekter/livskvalitet-og-sprakvansker-hos-ungdom/
Language assessment battery for Primary Progressive Aphasia: https://dam.no/prosjekter/sprakkartleggingsverktoy-for-primaer-progressiv-afasi/
I teach mainly in the continuing education program in special education.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Language development Language problems Aphasia Neurolinguistics Psycholinguistics Mapping Dementia Clinical linguistics Multilingualism
Research groups
Research projects
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PolkaNorski - Polish and Norwegian language and world knowledge development in mono- and multilingual children
The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.
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Words for Wellbeing – Quality of life and language impairment in adolescents and young adults
We aim to adapt a vocabulary assessment tool to Norwegian and try it out on different groups of adolescents and young adults with and without language impairments.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Løver, Morten Aase; Strand, Bror-Magnus S.; Kristoffersen, Kristian Emil (2019). N-LARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Norwegian. Ball, Martin J.; Fletcher, Paul; Crystal, David (Ed.). Grammatical Profiles: Further Languages of LARSP. Kapittel 1. p. 1-28. Multilingual Matters.
Trecca, Fabio; McCauley, Stewart; Riis Andersen, Sofie; Bleses, Dorthe; Basbøll, Hans; Højen, Anders; Madsen, Thomas O.; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Christiansen, Morten H.
(2018).
Segmentation of Highly Vocalic Speech Via Statistical Learning: Initial Results From Danish, Norwegian, and English.
Language Learning
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/67740
Lind, Marianne; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Svendsen, Bente Ailin; Svennevig, Jan; de Bot, Kees
(2018).
Lexical access in a bilingual speaker with dementia: Changes over time.
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
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Vol. 32.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/59104
Haman, Ewa; Łuniewska, Magdalena; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Chiat, Shula; Bjekic, Jovana; Blaziene, Agne; Chyl, Katarzyna; Dabaskinsiene, Ineta; Engel de Abreu, Pascale; Gagarina, Natalia; Gavarró, Anna; Håkansson, Gisela; Harel, Efrat; Holm, Elisabeth; Kapalková, Svetlana; Kunnari, Sari; Levorato, Chiara; Lindgren, Josefin; Mieszkowska, Karolina; Montes Salarich, Laia; Potgieter, Anneke; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie; Ringblom, Natalia; Rinker, Tanja; Roch, Maja; Slančová, Daniela; Southwood, Frenette; Tedeschi, Roberta; Tuncer, Aylin Müge; Ünal-Logacev, Özlem; Vuksanovic, Jasmina; Armon-Lotem, Sharon
(2017).
Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT).
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
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Vol. 31.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308553
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie (2014). Imageability and phonological neighborhood density effects in speech processing. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie . Vol. 19.