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Marta Velnic

Marta Velnic

Researcher
Department of Language and Literature

marta.velnic@ntnu.no
+4773559952 Bygg 5, 5506, Dragvoll
personal website AcqVA Research Group
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I am a postdoc researcher at the department of language  and literature and I am a member of the AcqVA research group. I have completed my PhD in Linguistics from UiT the Arctic University of Norway in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Merete Anderssen and Professor Marit Westergaard. Before that, I completed my MA in Linguistics (2012) and my BA in Anthropology (2008) at the University of Bologna.

My current postdoc project is on Cross-Linguistic Influence in Norwegian-Italian bilinguals. the main focus of this project are possessive structures as both languages have the pre-and post-nominal structure but are used in different contexts in the two languages. Thus, these structures provide fertile ground for observing the direction and contexts in which CLI takes place.

 

Research Interests:

  • Language acquisition
  • Cross-Linguistic Influence
  • Bilingualism
  • Pragmatics
  • Possessives
  • Ditransitive structures
  • Givenness
  • Animacy
  • Referring expression
  • Adjectives

 

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2020

  • Velnić, Marta. (2020) Acquisition of a Transparent Gender System: A Comparison of Italian and Croatian. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 11.
    Academic article

2019

  • Velnic, Marta. (2019) The Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. volum 27 (1).
    Academic article

2018

  • Velnic, Marta. (2018) The Influence of Animacy, Givenness, and Focus on Object Order in Croatian Ditransitives. Studia Linguistica.
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta. (2018) The effects of discourse topic on global and local markers in Croatian ditransitives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 3 (1).
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta; Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit. (2018) Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language: The role of animacy and givenness. 2018. ISBN 978-82-8244-193-3.
    Doctoral dissertation

2015

  • Velnic, Marta. (2015) Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms. Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies. volum 18.
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Velnić, Marta. (2020) Acquisition of a Transparent Gender System: A Comparison of Italian and Croatian. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 11.
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta. (2019) The Effects of Animacy and Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Child Language. Journal of Slavic Linguistics. volum 27 (1).
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta. (2018) The Influence of Animacy, Givenness, and Focus on Object Order in Croatian Ditransitives. Studia Linguistica.
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta. (2018) The effects of discourse topic on global and local markers in Croatian ditransitives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 3 (1).
    Academic article
  • Velnic, Marta. (2015) Of good thieves and old friends: An analysis of Croatian adjectival forms. Poljarnyj vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies. volum 18.
    Academic article

Report

  • Velnic, Marta; Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit. (2018) Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language: The role of animacy and givenness. 2018. ISBN 978-82-8244-193-3.
    Doctoral dissertation

Media

2023

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Velnic, Marta; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen. (2023) Er det lettere for norske elever å lære engelsk (eller andre språk) hvis de også kan polsk?. Morsmålsdagen 2023: Møter mellom polsk og norsk: Språkforskere forteller . Centre for Multilingualism across the Lifespan, UiO; Oslo. 2023-02-28.

2018

  • Poster
    Velnic, Marta. (2018) Effects of discourse topic on global and local markings in Croatian ditransitives. CLS Reading . Univeristy of Reading; Reading. 2018-06-25 - 2018-06-26.
  • Academic lecture
    Velnic, Marta. (2018) Effects of discourse topic on global and local markings in Croatian ditransitives. CLARC 2018 . UniRi; Rijeka. 2018-06-08 - 2018-06-10.

2017

  • Poster
    Velnic, Marta. (2017) The Effect of Givenness on Object Order in Croatian Monolingual Children. IASCL 2017 ; Lyon. 2017-07-17 - 2017-07-21.
  • Academic lecture
    Velnic, Marta. (2017) The effect of givenness on word order in ditransitive structures in Croatian child language. FASL 26 . University of Illinois; Urbana Champagne. 2017-05-18 - 2017-05-20.
  • Poster
    Velnic, Marta. (2017) The influence of animacy, givenness, and focus on object order in Croatian ditransitives. ISTAL 23 . Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki. 2017-03-31 - 2017-04-02.

2016

  • Poster
    Velnic, Marta. (2016) Acquisition of Ditransitive Structures in Croatian Child Language A Corpus Study. NoSLiP 2016 . LingPhIL; Trondheim. 2016-10-06 - 2016-10-07.
  • Academic lecture
    Velnic, Marta. (2016) An analysis of the influence of animacy, givenness, and focus in Croatian ditransitives. NoSLiP 2016 . LingPhIL; Trondheim. 2016-10-06 - 2016-10-07.

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Velnic, Marta. (2013) The acquisition of noun-adjective gender agreement in Italian and Croatian, A comparative study. Child Language Seminar ; Manchester. 2013-06-24 - 2013-06-25.
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