Selected Publications & Talks

In preparation

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. & Pavel Iosad. Autosegmental locality derives from the contrastive hierarchy: Evidence from micro-variation in Bantu vowel harmony. Target journal: Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Quantifying individual differences in ERP responses: A flexible GAM-based pipeline for heterogeneous response profiles.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Modeling and predicting language change in apparent time: A two-part methodology using GAMMs and GLMMs.

Under review

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Mizuki Tanigawa & Hjalmar Eiksund. Where does multilectalism end and multilingualism begin? Multilectals show variety-conditioned morphosyntactic processing in Norwegian self-paced reading. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. [Preprint]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Anna Kamenetski & Merete Anderssen. The parser tracks grammatical probability: Gradient acceptability and morphosyntactic transparency modulate P600 magnitude and latency. Brain and Language. [Preprint]

  • Helset, Stig, Jade J. Sandstedt & Tor Arne Haugen. Om to innsamlingsmetodar for talemålsdata: Korrelasjon og avvik mellom kontrollert stimulibasert elisitering og eigenrapportert språkbruk i spørjeskjema. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift.

Published

2026

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Stig Helset, Björn Lundquist, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Neurolinguistic signatures of microvariation and language change: Individual production variability predicts morphosyntactic processing differences. Cognition 272, 106477. [doi]

2025

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. Journal of Memory and Language 140, 104557. [doi]

  • Anderson, Cormac, Matthew Scarborough, Lechosław Jocz, … Jade J. Sandstedt, et al. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset. Scientific Data 12, 1541. [doi]

2024

  • Kubota, Maki, Jorge González Alonso, Merete Anderssen, Isabel Nadine Jensen, Alicia Luque, Sergio Pereira Soares, Yanina Prystauka, Øystein A. Vangsnes, Jade J. Sandstedt & Jason Rothman. Bidialectal exposure modulates neural signatures to conflicting grammatical properties: Norway as a natural laboratory. Language Learning 74(2), 436–467. [doi]

2023

  • Kjesrud, Karoline, Luka Natassja Olsen, Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Jade J. Sandstedt, Anneleen Kool & Linda Christiansen. Plant remains as sources to cultural history in Southeast Norway. In Complexity and Dynamics: Settlement and Landscape from the Bronze Age to the Renaissance in the Nordic Countries (1700 BC–AD 1600), pp. 113–128. Sidestone Press.

2022

  • Lyskawa, Paulina, Jade J. Sandstedt, Eline Visser, Nathan Young & Björn Lundquist. Successes and shortcomings of phonological accounts of Scandinavian object shift. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.

2021

  • Kool, Anneleen, Karoline Kjesrud, Irene Teixidor-Toneu & Jade J. Sandstedt. Mennesker og planter i fortid og fremtid. In Planter og tradisjon. Kolofon Forlag. ISBN 9788230021743.

  • Teixidor-Toneu, Irene, Anneleen Kool, Simon J. Greenhill, Karoline Kjesrud, Jade J. Sandstedt, Vincent Manzanilla & Fiona M. Jordan. Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376, 20200086. [doi]

2020

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. A reanalysis of abstract contrasts and opacity in Bondu-so tongue root harmony. Glossa 5(1), 91. [doi]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Vowel harmony decay in Old Norwegian. Papers in Historical Phonology 5, 11–48. [doi]

2017

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Transparency and blocking in Old Norwegian height harmony. Transactions of the Philological Society 115(3), 395–417. [doi] Winner of the RH Robins Prize, The Philological Society.

Thesis

2019

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Feature specifications and contrast in vowel harmony: The orthography and phonology of Old Norwegian height harmony. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh. [Online]

Talks

Invited talks

2025

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Hjalmar Eiksund & Mizuki Tanigawa. The psycholinguistics of Nynorsk–Bokmål multilectal reading. LingLunch, University of Bergen.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Multilectal influence on reading: Language, brain and learning. Joint talk, Lancaster Multilingualism and Cognition Group / HL2C and UiT C-LaBL, Lancaster University / UiT.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Hjalmar Eiksund & Mizuki Tanigawa. Multilectalism as multilingualism: Processing grammatical variation across Nynorsk and Bokmål written standards. FLUENT Lunch Talk, University of Stavanger.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Event-related potentials reveal inter- and intra-speaker sociolinguistic variability during real-time sentence processing. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. [slides]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Bilectalism as a sub-case of bilingualism: Neurocognitive insights from Norwegian dialects. Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University.

2024

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. The impact of sociolinguistic variation on language processing: Tracing individual differences in on-going language change in ERPs. Language Research Seminar, MultiLing, University of Oslo.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. & Maki Kubota. Exploring bilectalism: How different Norwegian dialects shape language processing and representation. LingLunch, University of Bergen.

Conference talks & posters

2025

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Björn Lundquist, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Dialect and sociolinguistic influence on reading: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. ISB 15 — 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism, BCBL, San Sebastián, Spain. [slides]

  • Bye, Patrik & Jade J. Sandstedt. West Nordic umlaut, Old Norwegian vowel harmony, and the life cycle. Fonologi i Norden, University of Oslo. [handout]

2024

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Yanina Prystauka, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. ICLaVE 12 — 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna. [handout]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Merete Anderssen, Stig Helset, Maki Kubota, Björn Lundquist, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Tracing language change in ERPs. AMLaP — Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, University of Edinburgh. (Poster.) [poster]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Björn Lundquist, Jason Rothman & Øystein A. Vangsnes. The neurophysiological correlates of language change: Insights from on-going dialect levelling in Sunnmøre Norwegian. 9th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. [handout]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Stig Helset, Jason Rothman & Øystein A. Vangsnes. The neurophysiological correlates of language change: Insights from on-going dialect levelling in Sunnmøre Norwegian. Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL), UiT — The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. [handout]

2023

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Yanina Prystauka, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Cross-dialectal influence in bilectal processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. AMLaP — Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, BCBL, San Sebastián, Spain. [handout]

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Yanina Prystauka, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. The distinct grammars of bilectal processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. International Conference on Multilingualism and Language Acquisition, University of Helsinki.

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Jeannique Ann Darby, Stig Helset, Yanina Prystauka, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. 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.

2022

  • Sandstedt, Jade J., Maki Kubota, Merete Anderssen, Anna Bogoyavlenskaya, Jeannique Ann Darby, Hjalmar T. Eiksund, Stig Helset, Yanina Prystauka, Elahe Tavakoli, Øystein A. Vangsnes & Jason Rothman. Tverrdialektal påverknad på bilektal prosessering: bevis frå norske ERPar. Møte om Norsk Språk (MONS), UiT — The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.

2021

  • Sandstedt, Jade J. Tracking and visualising the causes and pathways of vowel harmony decay in Old Norwegian. 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, University of Oslo. [handout]