• Ab Initio Adult Third Language Acquisition: Transfer source selection and effects of CLI in acquisition of an artificial language 

      Stevens, Dashiel Naea (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-18)
      The field of generative third language acquisition has seen considerable activity in the last decade, resulting in several dominant models which seek to explain the phenomenon of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and transfer. This study investigates the role of previously acquired languages, Norwegian and English, in the acquisition of morphosyntax of a miniature artificial language (MAL) at the ...
    • "Aber, was ist eigentlich ein Substantiv?" 

      Andreassen, Hedda Gade (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-09-15)
      Durch ein mehrmethodisches exploratives Forschungsprojekt wird versucht herauszufinden, welche Kenntnisse sieben Schüler*innen in der achten und neunten Klasse (DaF-Anfängerniveau) über Metasprache und Grammatik besitzen. Diese Methoden bestehen aus Aktionsforschung mit schriftlichen Interviews mit den Schüler*innen, intensivierter Grammatikunterricht als Intervention gefolgt von einer zweiten Runde ...
    • Acquisition and opacity 

      Tihonova, Olga (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-05-14)
      This thesis focuses on the most recent OT-based theory of opacity called Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC, see McCarthy 2007). To date very little attention has been dedicated to the problem of acquisition of OT-CC grammars and to the treatment of spontaneous opacity effects in the light of OT-CC. In this thesis it is demonstrated that OT-CC grammars can be effectively learned by the ...
    • The acquisition of complex onsets in Icelandic: the effects of markedness, sonority, and frequency 

      Dyga, Jagoda Anna (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-23)
      The acquisition of consonant clusters is determined by several underlying factors, and recent studies demonstrated that input frequency, investigated in isolation, cannot account for the order of acquisition (e.g., Jarosz 2017). The study conducted in this thesis was an empirical test of the theories of phonological acquisition. It investigated the simplification patterns occurring in initial clusters ...
    • The acquisition of English as an L3 by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. A study of crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition 

      Gorgone, Maria Paula (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-16)
      The present study focuses on the acquisition of English as a third language by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. The aim is to find evidence of crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and/or Spanish in their L3 English by testing the properties of the Definiteness Effect (DE), according to which the copula cannot be followed by a definite DP in existential constructions in English and Spanish; VOS word ...
    • Acquisition of English laryngeal feature distribution by Norwegian learners 

      Aslaksen, Ann Kristin (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-06-04)
      This thesis looks at how Norwegian learners of English acquire the English laryngeal feature distribution in two types of suffixes; s-endings and the past tense. The past tense forms are distributed almost identically in both Norwegian and English, only differing after sonorants. The s-endings in Norwegian are all voiceless, whereas in English these behave in a parallel way to the past tense. A ...
    • Acquisition of L2 English articles among L1 Dagbani speakers: L1 Transfer or Fluctuation? 

      Kwame, Abukari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-11)
      This study investigates the acquisition of L2 English articles among L1 Dagbani speakers. Both Dagbani and English are article languages. However, Dagbani lacks a morphological marker for indefiniteness, hence, indefiniteness and genericity are expressed in the language by bare nouns. L2 acquisition research shows that adult L2 learners both from article and article-less languages have much difficulties ...
    • The Acquisition of Norwegian Object Shift by Ln learners 

      Didriksen, Jelena (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-18)
      This thesis investigates whether Ln learners of Norwegian at different stages in their acquisition are familiar with the phenomenon known as Object Shift (OS), which allows a pronominal object to move across negation in certain contexts. An object is only allowed to shift if it is an unstressed pronoun that refers back to a specific noun. Objects in the form of pronouns that refer back to a whole ...
    • The acquisition of questions by a Mandarin-English bilingual child 

      Wang, Yuanqi (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-09-15)
      Linguists have been debating on whether the two languages of bilingual children develop separately since 1990s. Some studies suggest when the two languages are acquired very early in life, each language develops separately (the Separate Development Hypothesis), while others show that bilinguals’ two languages can influence each other and that the weaker language is more vulnerable to cross-linguistic ...
    • Acquisition of subject-verb agreement and word order by Nepali learners of English: The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition 

      Basnet, Lila Dhoaj (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-15)
      Abstract The thesis investigates Nepali L1 speakers’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English to test whether functional morphology is more difficult than syntax. Accordingly, the study mainly included two constructions: subject-verb agreement and word order. Subject-verb agreement was used to test knowledge of functional morphology while word order was used to test the knowledge about ...
    • Acquisition of the English vowel system by Farsi and Gilaki speakers 

      Khoshrouz, Siavash (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-11-01)
      This study investigates the acquisition of English vowels by speakers of two Iranian varieties, Gilaki and Standard Farsi in the light of two CLI theories, namely the Full Transfer and Full Transfer Potential. The argument of this study is that Gilaki-Farsi bilingual speakers should be able to demonstrate a more pronounced differentiation of both vowel duration and spectral dimensions than monolingual ...
    • The acquisition of time reference by Norwegian school learners of English 

      Tingstad, Kjersti Røttereng (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 1999-03-31)
    • Acquisition of Verbal Aspect in L2 English by advanced learners with L1 Russian and L1 Norwegian: A web-based eye tracking study 

      Ermolina, Iuliia (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-30)
      It is well known that the similarities between L1 and L2 (also L3, etc.) facilitate language acquisition, whereas significant differences between them result in non-facilitating effects. These effects are known as Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI). The main objective of the current study is to investigate the CLI, experienced by high proficient L2 English speakers when the grammatical aspect is being ...
    • The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. 

      Brattsti, Fredrick (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-14)
      This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the child transfers the word order for questions in both standard Norwegian and the Tromsø dialect into her ...
    • Acusativo y dativo con los verbos psicológicos y de influencia. Un estudio de corpus con aplicaciones didácticas 

      Gaare, Gisle (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-06)
      Denne oppgavens tema er å vise både lærere og lærende i spansk hvordan noen spanske verb skiller seg sterkt fra de tilsvarende norske oversettelsene i bruk av både direkte og indirekte objekt og plassering av subjekt, samt hvordan og hvorfor disse verbene kan oppleves vanskelige å bruke som spanskstuderende.
    • Address forms in Persian based on Iranian movies 

      Derakhshan Rokni, Tina (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-15)
      The present thesis: “Address forms in Persian language based on Iranian movies”, investigates address forms as socio-linguistic forms which are directly related to social factors such as age, gender and social class. In the Persian language there is a strong tradition of addressing each other in various ways, changing from one context to another. Addressing is a universal phenomenon, but the rules ...
    • Ambiposisjovnh - gïehtjedimmie njielje ambiposisjovnijste 

      Steinfjell, Maidi Persson (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)
      Fire sørsamiske adposisjoner med OVER-betydning og den semantiske forskjellen mellom post- og preposisjon. I denne oppgaven presenteres det hvordan man kan si OVER på sørsamisk med fire velkjente adposisjoner. De fire adposisjonene er aatsolen, bijjelen, dåaresth og rastah. Problemstillingen i denne oppgaven er følgende «Hvordan kan man si OVER på sørsamisk og er det en semantisk forskjell mellom ...
    • Animatumkategorien i russisk : en empirisk undersøkelse av ord for sjødyr og mikroorganismer 

      Røkenes, Erle Hansine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-15)
      Denne oppgaven handler om animatumkategorien i russisk og tar utgangspunkt i regelen om at ord som betegner levende vesener, får genitivlik akkusativ. Jeg ser nærmere på to områder, hvor det er kjent at det er usikkerhet i bruken av genitivlik akkusativ, nemlig små sjødyr og mikroorganismer. Jeg har undersøkt hvordan disse ordene bøyes, både ved hjelp av en informantundersøkelse og en korpusundersøkelse. ...
    • Aptitude in the Classroom: an empirical study of the pedagogical functionality of the LLAMA test battery in an upper secondary school 

      Larsen, Morten Skillingstad (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-15)
      This thesis explores the suitability of using aptitude testing and the LLAMA aptitude tests in a Norwegian upper secondary school class, and the potential pedagogical advantages such testing can have. Aptitude testing entails measuring language learners’ specific talent for learning foreign languages and this is an individual difference that exhibits considerable variation between learners (Dörnyei ...
    • Arbeidsrettet norskopplæring - et helhetlig læringsrom 

      Kornbakk, Karoline Dalheim; Idrupsen, Marte (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-28)
      Temaet for denne mastergradsavhandlingen er arbeidsrettet norskopplæring. Prosjektet har hatt som siktemål å undersøke en ny opplæringsmodell som skal etableres på et læringssenter i Norge. Modellen er en omstrukturering av tiltak i introduksjonsprogrammet, og deltakere innenfor rammene av denne er voksne innvandrere og flyktninger som skal lære norsk. Opplæringsmodellen bygger på en kombinasjon av ...