Volda University College
Jade Sandstedt
Associate Professor of Nordic Linguistics · PI of MInDReading
I study what dialect variation reveals about real-time language processing — combining variationist sociolinguistics with EEG, eye-tracking, and self-paced reading to ask how the variation we grow up with shapes the way we read, comprehend, and represent language.
Research
Neurolinguistics of variation
EEG/ERP studies of how dialect exposure and bidialectal experience shape sentence processing — including subject-level GAMM methods for heterogeneous neural responses.
Reading & literacy
Eye-tracking and self-paced reading across Norway’s two written standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål — where multilectalism meets literacy development.
Variation & change
Variationist sociolinguistics, dialect contact, and ongoing language change — tracking microvariation within and between speakers in apparent time.
Nordic language history
(Morpho)phonology and historical linguistics, from Old Norwegian vowel harmony to the life cycle of vowel systems.
MInDReading (2026–2030)
Multilectal Individual Differences in Reading — a four-year NFR FRIPRO project asking how dialect exposure shapes the neural and behavioral signatures of reading in Norwegian. Based at Volda University College, in collaboration with UiT and the University of Oslo. We're currently recruiting a PhD fellow and a postdoc.
Explore the project →News
- Jun 2026 Now recruiting: PhD Research Fellow (deadline 22 June) and Postdoctoral Fellow (deadline 3 August) for MInDReading.
- 2026 New paper in Cognition: Neurolinguistic signatures of microvariation and language change.
- 2026 MInDReading launches — funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR FRIPRO, 9.96M NOK).
- 2025 New paper in Journal of Memory and Language: Bidialectal language representation and processing.
Contact
✉️ jade.jorgen.sandstedt@hivolda.no · ☎️ +47 97 34 97 41 · 🏛️ Institute for Language and Literature, Volda University College, Postbox 500, 6101 Volda, Norway