Audun Rørvik Rosslund
Om
Jeg er førsteamanuensis i utviklingspsykologi ved Institutt for psykologi, NTNU. Forskningen min dreier seg primært om språkutvikling hos sped- og småbarn, med særlig fokus på mekanismene som driver språkutvikling, betydningen av miljømessige faktorer for språkutvikling, samt design av gode verktøy for kartlegging av språk.
I det siste har jeg fokusert på sammenhenger mellom barns ordforråd og ulike forhold i hjemmet, som søsken, skjermtid, høytlesning, bruk av smokk, og akustiske trekk ved foreldres stemme (såkalt barnerettet tale).
Jeg benytter ulike metodiske tilnærminger, blant annet eye-tracking og pupillometri, touch-baserte metoder, spørreskjema, og akustisk analyse av foreldre-barn interaksjon. Jeg er opptatt av åpen forskning (Open Science), og er involvert i ManyBabies konsortiet, et globalt, multi-lab samarbeid for å fremme reproduserbarhet og generaliserbarhet i utviklingspsykologi.
Publikasjoner
- Rosslund, A. (2025). Learning words in context. Nature Reviews Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-025-00526-x
- Rosslund, A., Mayor, J., & Kartushina, N., (2025). Norwegian parents do not modulate infant-directed speech based on their infants’ attributed word knowledge. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0002077
- Rosslund, A., Kartushina, N., Serres, N., & Mayor, J. (2025). Early vocabulary acquisition: From birth order effect to child-to-caregiver ratio. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14251
- Rosslund, A., Varjola, N., Mayor, J., & Kartushina, N. (2025). Longitudinal changes in consonant production in infant-directed speech and infants’ early speech production from 6 to 12 months. Infant Behavior and Development. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.102018
- Rosslund, A., Mayor, J., Cristia, A., & Kartushina, N. (2024). Native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants. Infant Behavior and Development. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101992
- Rosslund, A., Kartushina, N., & Mayor, J. (2024). Associations between shared book reading, daily screen time and infants' vocabulary size. Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000291
- Rosslund, A., Mayor, J., Mundry, R., Singh, A. P., Cristia, A., & Kartushina, N. (2024). A longitudinal investigation of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech from 6 to 18 months. Royal Society Open Science. doi: 10.1098/rsos.240572
- Rosslund, A., Hagelund, S., Mayor, J., & Kartushina, N. (2023). Mothers' and fathers' infant-directed speech have similar acoustic properties, but these are not associated with direct or indirect measures of word comprehension in 8-month-old infants. Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000557
- Rosslund, A., Mayor, J., Óturai, G., & Kartushina, N. (2022). Parents’ hyper-pitch and low vowel category variability in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary. Language Development Research. doi: 10.34842/2022.0547
- Lo, C. H., Rosslund, A., Chai, J. H., Mayor, J., & Kartushina, N. (2021). Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–20‐month‐old toddlers. Infancy. doi: 10.1111/infa.12401
- Kartushina, N., Rosslund, A., & Mayor, J. (2021). Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families. Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000520
Registered Reports (Stage 1)
- The ManyBabies Consortium (accepted pending data collection). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour.
- Laeng, B., Mayor, J., Rosslund, A., & Kartushina, N. (accepted pending data collection). Pupillary response to a brightness illusion in infants. Collabra: Psychology.
- Serres, N., Mayor, J., Rosslund, A., & Kartushina, N., (accepted pending data collection). The role of dialect variability on mispronunciation sensitivity: An insight to infants’ early language development from a Norwegian context. Infancy.
- The ManyBabies Consortium (accepted pending data collection). ManyBabies 3: A multi-lab study of infant algebraic rule learning. Developmental Science.
- The ManyBabies Consortium (accepted pending data collection). Action anticipation based on an agent’s epistemic state in toddlers and adults. Child Development.