Helene Jensberg

Helene Jensberg is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her work focuses on bilingualism, heritage language acquisition, and Norwegian dialectology, particularly examining morphosyntactic variation in heritage Norwegian and cross-linguistic influences in L3 acquisition.

• Keywords: Linguistics, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Dialectology
• Research Groups: AcqVA Aurora, C-LaBL, AcqVA-Nor

Her recent publications highlight comparative studies of verb second (V2) word order in heritage Norwegian, dialect feature adoption by Polish migrants, and cross-linguistic influence in multilingual contexts. She collaborates with researchers like Marit Westergaard, Terje Lohndal, and Kamil Malarski on syntactic and sociolinguistic analyses.

Helmens scientific work intersects with sociolinguistic identity markers, syntactic constraints in non-native speakers, and educational applications of multilingual research. Her affiliations include the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Teacher Education at UiT, where she contributes to advancing understanding of language contact and variation.