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Acquisition of subject-verb agreement and word order by Nepali learners of English: The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition
(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
(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 the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-26)This study examined the acquisition of numeral classifiers in 120 monolingual Japanese children. Previous research has argued that the complex semantic system underlying classifiers is late acquired. Thus, we set out to determine the age at which Japanese children are able to extend the semantic properties of classifiers to novel items/situations. Participants completed a comprehension task with ... -
The acquisition of time reference by Norwegian school learners of English
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Acquisition of Verbal Aspect in L2 English by advanced learners with L1 Russian and L1 Norwegian: A web-based eye tracking study
(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 L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-13)This article reports on a syntactic acceptability judgement study of 59 adult L2/Ln learners of Norwegian and a group of native controls, studying subject and object shift. These constructions involve movement of (mainly) pronominal subjects or objects across negation/adverbs. Both subject shift and object shift display considerable micro-variation in terms of syntax and information structure, ... -
The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual.
(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 ... -
Actitudes lingüísticas hacia los murcianismos - Un estudio sobre percepciones aplicado al léxico
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-11)Even though there are many studies devoted to the analysis of linguistic attitudes, it is not so frequent to find analyses that explore the attitude towards specific lexical phenomena. This work concentrates on the acceptability and perception of a series of lexical expressions, characteristic from Murcia (Spain) –a highly stigmatised variety–, both in utterances with other vernacular traits and in ... -
Actitudes lingüísticas y políticas en sociedades bilingües. Un estudio comparativo sobre la Comunidad Valenciana y Noruega
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-10-27)This master's thesis investigates potential connections between linguistic and political attitudes within a bilingual society. It specifically focuses on the contemporary Comunidad Valenciana in Spain, where both Spanish and Valenciano/Catalán hold official language status. It explores the dynamics between linguistic and political attitudes, with a particular emphasis on the divisions between ... -
Acusativo y dativo con los verbos psicológicos y de influencia. Un estudio de corpus con aplicaciones didácticas
(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. -
Adam Smith om markedet og om selvet
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-19)Artikkelen fokuserer på hvilken rolle egeninteresse spiller i The Wealth of Nations av Adam Smith. Grunnlaget for diskusjonen vil være et bestemt syn på den vitenskapelige idealiseringen. I henhold til dette synet hevder Smith at aktørene på markedet er motivert av egeninteresse på tross av at han selv vet at dette ikke nødvendigvis er tilfellet. Selv om denne påstanden kan begrunnes pragmatisk, det ... -
Adaptation and Staying Social: Ways of Coping and the Use of Virtual Spaces During the Covid-19 Pandemic as Observed in the USA
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-01)The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire world (Worldometer 2021). Some regions are worse off than others though. One of these areas is the United States of America which has been recorded having the highest number of Covid cases and deaths in the world, with 33,419,113 cases and 594,912 deaths from Covid-19 as of May 08, 2021 (Worldometer 2021). Despite its alarming numbers, citizens there ... -
Adapting a linguistic constructicon resource to L2 learners and instructors: a challenging endeavor
(Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2024-03)We present the challenges faced and decisions made in creating the Russian Constructicon (https://constructicon.github.io/russian/) as a multifunctional resource. We focus on two crucial categories of target users, linguists and L2 learners & instructors, and show that they have somewhat conflicting needs and expectations. While linguists want a maximally comprehensive inventory and its description, ... -
Adaptive learning and reduced cognitive uncertainty in a financial organization
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010)<p><i>Purpose</i>: This paper analyses and discusses the “learning activities” that comprise obligatory learning at work by employees each month. The management strategy is to use these learning activities to spread knowledge, exchange experience and implement new skills within the organisation. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: to what extent do these learning activities at the ... -
Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-04)Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed. In this paper, we propose a microcontact approach to the study of change in contact, focusing on microsyntactic points of variation across multiple language pairs that ... -
Additive Negation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22) -
Address forms in Persian based on Iranian movies
(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 ... -
ADHD i arbeidslivet. En kvalitativ studie av mennesker med ADHD sine opplevelser og behov for tilrettelegging i arbeidslivet
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven har som formål å vise utfordringer så vel som fordeler med ADHD diagnosen knyttet til det å fungere i samfunnet. Jeg har brukt kvalitativ forskningsmetode og intervjuet syv personer med ADHD, hvor vi får innblikk i deres erfaringer med utdanning og arbeidsliv. Studien tar for seg hvordan disse menneskene har fungert i skolesammenheng, i arbeidslivet og livet generelt. Litteraturen ... -
ADHD på ungdomsskolen - hvordan gjør vi det?
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)Antall diagnostiserte med ADHD har skutt i været i løpet av de siste tiårene – også blant ungdomsskoleelever. Ungdomsskolens mål og struktur har også endret seg over tid. I denne masteroppgaven i sosiologi har vi utforsket hvordan ungdomsskolen forholder seg til det økende antallet elever med ADHD-diagnose. Hensikten med denne oppgaven er å få bedre innsikt i hvordan elever med ADHD-diagnosen ivaretas ... -
Adjectival and Genitival Modification in Definite Noun Phrases in Icelandic - A Tale of Outsiders and Inside Jobs
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2015-06-22)Icelandic provides substantial diversity of modification patterns in definite noun phrases not found in other languages. This thesis takes a closer look at that diversity and argues that various (morpho-) syntactic and semantic aspects of adjectival modification can be used as diagnostics for a layered noun phrase structure. I propose that the noun phrase structure can be segmented into four distinct ...
