Resources

Projects I have developed / been apart of.

Automatised Digit Span Tasks for a longitudinal study on second-language learning conducted in Norway (Castle & Westendorp, 2026)

Looking for a Digit Span Task for young children? Chloe Castle and I created two DST tasks (forwards and backwards) suitable for primary school-aged children on the Gorilla platform. The DSTs are presented as a playful game to be engaging to children, with bright and appealing imagery. It was built for Norwegian but can easily be adapted for any language. The tasks, images and other related code are shared and can be used by anyone. This task was built as part of the Learning domain of the C-LaBL research centre under Prof Merete Anderssen as CI.

The Nordic Word order Database

The Nordic Word Order Database (NWD) is a collaboration between researchers from the University of Oslo and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The freely available online database contains carefully elicited production from the five North Germanic languages Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. Two main experiments were run to collect production data of syntactic constructions that are known to show variation between or within the North Germanic languages. The first experiment focusses on argument placement, the second experiment on verb placement. The experimental paradigms were developed by Ida Larsson (exp. 1), Björn Lundquist (exp. 1 and 2) and Maud Westendorp (exp. 2). The process of building the Nordic Word order Database (NWD) and the data collection for this project is detailed in Lundquist et al. 2019. A repository that includes test material, experiment scripts, and analysis scripts and guidelines is available on my GitHub.

Mini-corpus: Word order variation in wh-questions in Sogn Norwegian

In collaboration with Øystein A. Vangsnes, I have created a corpus of wh-questions in Sogn Norwegian. Production data was collected between 2003 and 2005 from 22 unique speakers in two location in the region of Sogn og Fjordane, Western Norway (i.e., Sogndal and Gaupne). A dataset of 700 wh-questions, fully annotated and tagged was constructed. A discussion and analysis of this material and some of the patterns found in this data can be found in this unpublished manuscript and this RMarkdown file.

Multilectal Literacy in Education

From 2022–2026 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the project Multilectal Literacy in Education funded by the Research Council of Norway. Two of the experiments I ran in this project are preregistered and can be found on OSF. Related publications can be found on my Publications page as soon as they are published.

Westendorp, Bosma and Söderlund: “Managing lexical co-activation in closely related varieties of Norwegian”

Westendorp and Lundquist: “Investigating the mapping between different spoken and written varieties of Norwegian”