About
I am an associate professor in special and inclusive education and conduct research on language acquisition/development, language processing and language impairments in mono-and multilingual populations in a lifespan perspective. Furthermore, I'm interested in the relationship between language and cognition, and how language impairments affect quality of life and participation in daily life activities.
Apart from teaching in the postgraduate program in special and inclusive education, I am also PI of a research project supported by the Dam Foundation about quality of life and language impairments among youth and adolescents (dam.no/prosjekter/livskvalitet-og-sprakvansker-hos-ungdom/).
Field of study
Cognition Language development Language problems Multilingualism Aphasia Psycholinguistics Mapping Dementia Life course perspective Developmental language disorder (DLD) Clinical linguistics
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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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.
Completed research projects
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PolkaNorski Implemented
The development of language skills and world knowledge in Polish-Norwegian multilingual children.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Lozano, Itziar; Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Anna;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; Laudańska, Zuzanna; Szmytke, Magdalena; Dynak, Agnieszka; Falkiewicz, Natalia; Fryzowska, Ewelina; Ogonowska, Wiktoria; Krupa-Gaweł, Karolina; Rummelhoff, Cecilie; Laumann, Lisa; Tomalski, Przemysław;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2026).
The role of attention to the mouth of talking faces for vocabulary skills during toddlerhood: Does language familiarity still matter?.
Child Development.
https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag010
Lozano, Itziar; Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Anna;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; falkiewicz, Natalia; Ogonowska, Wiktoria; Dynak, Agnieszka; Köder, Franziska Maria; Tomalski, Przemysław; Fryzowska, Ewelina; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Rummelhoff, Cecilie; Varona, Elena Canamaque; Krupa-Gawel, Karolina; Laumann, Lisa;
Garmann, Nina Gram
; Haman, Ewa
(2025).
The Development of Semantic Integration in Bilingual Toddlers Measured by N400.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101599
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Norvik, Monica I.; Lehtonen, Minna H; Murstad, Jeanett; Theimann, Ane; Nygreen, Thomas; Goral, Mira
(2024).
Prediction ability in bilingual individuals: an eye tracking study with younger and older adults.
Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-024-00155-5
Norvik, Monica I.;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram
(2024).
Beyond Naming: Narrative Production in L1 and L2 in Multilingual Individuals with and without Dementia.
Goral, Mira; Lerman, Aviva (Ed.).
Advances in the Neurolinguistic Study of Multilingual and Monolingual Adults. p. 95-112.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330318-10
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. p. 1-28.
Multilingual Matters.
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788924399-003
Lind, Marianne; Simonsen, Hanne Gram;
Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie
; Svendsen, Bente Ailin; Svennevig, Jan; Bot, Kees de
(2018).
Lexical access in a bilingual speaker with dementia: Changes over time.
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics.
Vol. 32.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1381168
Trecca, Fabio; McCauley, Stewart; Andersen, Sofie Riis; 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.
https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12325
Haman, Ewa; Łuniewska, Magdalena; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Chiat, Shula; Bjekic, Jovana; Blaziene, Agne; Chyl, Katarzyna; Dabaskinsiene, Ineta; Abreu, Pascale Engel de; Gagarina, Natalia; Gavarró, Anna; Håkansson, Gisela; Harel, Efrat;
Holm, Elisabeth
; Kapalková, Svetlana; Kunnari, Sari; Levorato, Chiara; Lindgren, Josefin; Mieszkowska, Karolina; Salarich, Laia Montes; 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.
Vol. 31.
https://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.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4196960
