Jade Sandstedt - Grammatical variation

Processing grammatical variation

NEURO-SOCIOLINGUISTICS: This project combines variationist sociolinguistics and psycho- and neurolinguistic methods, with the aim of providing a better understanding of the neurophysiological underpinnings of grammatical variability and language change.

Self-reported participial agreement by age and municipality in the Sunnmøre region (n = 424).

DIALECT LEVELLING: Focusing on declining participial number agreement in Sunnmøre Norwegian dialects in North-Western Norway, this project employs a combination of ERP sentence processing, speech production, and grammaticality judgment tasks to probe:

how exposure to linguistic variation influences individual and group differences in behavioral and processing outcomes
how intra- and inter-speaker variation in the production of variable grammatical features relates to corresponding behavioral and neurophysiological responses during comprehension
what individual differences measured in on-line and off-line measures reveal about the mechanisms through which language change progresses

VARIABLE GRAMMATICAL PROCESSING: Individual ERPs are shown to be highly sensitive to intra- and inter-individual variation (rate of participial agreement in speech) as well as a wide range of individual sociodemographic factors (e.g., age, Bokmål/Nynorsk exposure, etc.).

By integrating methodologies from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics, this work provides more nuanced and detailed empirical data on the complex dynamics of language change and the role that individual variability plays in this process.

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE MEASURES: GAM-based individual ERP measures of two Sunnmøre dialect speakers' participial non-agreement minus agreement waveforms, illustrating contrasting brain responses at early and late stages of language change.

PUBLICATIONS

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Helset, S., Lundquist, B., Rothman, J., & Vangsnes, Ø., A. (in revision). Tracking language change through ERPs: Individual production variability predicts morphosyntactic processing differences. Cognition.
manuscript

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, A. J., Helset, S., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2025). Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104557
Submitted version

Kubota, M., González Alonso, J., Jensen, N. I., Luque, A., Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., Vangsnes, Ø., Anderssen, M., Sandstedt, J., & Rothman, J. (in press). Bidialectal exposure modulates neural signatures to conflicting grammatical properties: Norway as a natural laboratory. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12608

PRESENTATIONS

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, J.A., Helset, S. Lundquist, B., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2025). Dialect and sociolinguistic influence on reading: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. ISB 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), San Sebastián, Spain.
slides

Sandstedt, J. (2025). Neural activity reveals inter- and intra-speaker sociolinguistic variation during sentence processing. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
slides

Sandstedt, J., Anderssen, M., Helset, S., Kubota, M., Lundquist, B., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2024). Tracing language change in ERPs. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
poster

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Lundquist, B., Rothman, J., & Vangsnes, Ø. A. (2024). The neurophysiological correlates of language change: Insights from on-going dialect levelling in Sunnmøre Norwegian. The 9th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
handout

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Helset, S., Rothman, J., & Vangsnes, Ø. A. The neurophysiological correlates of language change: Insights from on-going dialect levelling in Sunnmøre Norwegian. Center for Language, Brain and Learning, UiT - The Arctic Unversity of Norway. Tromsø, Norway.
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Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, A. J., Helset, S., Prystauka, Y., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2023). Cross-dialectal influence in bilectal processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). BCBL – Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Spain.
handout

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, A. J., Helset, S., Prystauka, Y., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2023). The distinct grammars of bilectal processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. International conference on multilingualism and language acquisition. University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, A. J., Helset, S., Prystauka, Y., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2023). The role of grammatical alignment, engagement, and exposure in cross-dialectal influence on bilectal processing. Workshop on Multilectal Minds, UiT — The Arctic University of Norway. Tromsø, Norway.

Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Bogoyavlenskaya, A., Darby, A. J., Eiksund, H. T., Helset, S., Prystauka, Y., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2022). Tverrdialektal påverknad på bilektal prosessering: bevis frå norske ERPar [Cross-dialectal influence on bilectal processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs]. Møte om Norsk Språk, UiT — The Arctic University of Norway. Tromsø, Norway.

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