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Sarah Cameron

Linguist | PhD Candidate, University of Oslo

Email: sarah.cameron@iln.uio.no Website: sarahcameron.no
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Education

PhD in Linguistics — University of Oslo, 2021–2026

  • Thesis: Gender processing in L1 and L2 speakers of Norwegian
  • Supervisors: Natalia Kartushina, Björn Lundquist, and Sendy Caffarra

MA in Linguistics — University of Oslo, 2016–2019

  • Thesis: The bilingual advantage: Cognitive effects of bilingualism in healthy older Norwegians

BA in Scandinavian Linguistics — University of Oslo, 2007–2010

Research Experience

PhD Fellow — University of Oslo, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, 2021–2026

Research Assistant — MultiLing, University of Oslo, 2021 Scoping review of studies on ADHD and bilingualism

  • Systematic literature review

Research Assistant — NTNU/University of Oslo, 2021 Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages (TEFLON)

  • Stimuli development (word elicitation task)

Research Assistant — MultiLing, University of Oslo, 2020–2021 Time-reference processing in healthy adult L1-speakers of Norwegian

  • Stimuli development, EEG data collection and analysis

Research Assistant — MultiLing, University of Oslo, 2019 Studies of Multilingual Aphasia

  • Stimuli development, EEG data collection with healthy adults and people with aphasia

Research Assistant — MultiLing, University of Oslo, 2018–2021 With bilingual eyes: motion event conceptualization in Norwegian and Norwegian-English children

  • Eye-tracking data collection, coding, and transcription

Teaching

University of Oslo, 2024–2026

  • LING1107 – Language Acquisition: syntax and morphology (2024, 2025, 2026)

OsloMet, Department of Early Childhood Education, Aug–Nov 2021

  • BLH2100/BLA2200 – Language, Text and Mathematics: children’s culture; children’s language development; bilingual children

Steinerhøyskolen, 2021

  • Early childhood teacher education programme: Norwegian as a second language/bilingualism

Academic Service

Department Board Representative, Temporary Scientific Staff — University of Oslo, ILN, 2022

Department Board Representative (Deputy), Temporary Scientific Staff — University of Oslo, ILN, 2025

Publications

Cameron, S., Kartushina, N., Lundquist, B., & Caffarra, S. (2026). Linear distance modulates P600 amplitude for gender agreement: An ERP study in Norwegian. Brain Research, 1887, 150390.

Fyndanis, V., Cameron, S., Hansen, P., Norvik, M. I., & Simonsen, H. G. (2022). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(3), 490–503.

Köder, F. M., Sharma, C., Cameron, S., & Garraffa, M. (2022). The effects of bilingualism on cognition and behaviour in individuals with attention deficits: A scoping review. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Cameron, S., Kartushina, N., Caffarra, S., & Lundquist, B. Gender asymmetries in Norwegian modulate the LAN, but not the P600.

Cameron, S., Kartushina, N., Caffarra, S., Lundquist, B., & Sandstedt, J. ERPs reveal differential processing of determiner-noun and noun-adjective agreement in L2 learners of Norwegian.

Conference Presentations

Cameron, S. (2025). Gender processing in native speakers and learners of Norwegian: a longitudinal ERP study. Oral presentation at EuroSLA 2025.

Cameron, S., Kartushina, N., Lundquist, B., & Caffarra, S. (2025). ERPs reveal differential processing of three types of gender violations in Norwegian. Poster presentation at AMLaP 2025.

Fyndanis, V., & Cameron, S. (2019). Cognitive testing: When is it non-verbal? Talk presented at the Workshop on Visual Prompts and Visual Methods in Multilingualism Research, MultiLing, University of Oslo.

Languages

  • Norwegian (native)
  • English (near-native)
  • Spanish (proficient)

References

Available upon request.