• 3rd person clitic combinations across Catalan varieties: Consequences of the nature of the dative clitic 

      Cabré, Teresa; Fábregas, Antonio (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-12)
      This article argues that variation in how 3rd person clitic combinations are solved across Catalan varieties depends on the internal morphosyntactic shape of the dative clitic in each variety. We argue that the dative clitic in Valencian Catalan is an inherently case-marked pronominal form (KP), while non Valencian Catalan varieties, that contain a locative clitic, build the dative as a definite ...
    • A cognitive linguistic approach to analysis and correction of orthographic errors 

      Reynolds, Rob; Janda, Laura Alexis; Nesset, Tore (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022)
      Traditional approaches to spell checking are sometimes inadequate for the needs of non-native users because they are optimized for native speakers. Not only is it assumed that the user is capable of choosing between suggested corrections, but the suggestions themselves are optimized for the kinds of errors that native speakers make. Even if a non-native user were able to select the correct form from ...
    • ABM-utvikling og avvikling. Hva skjedde? 

      Skare, Roswitha; Vårheim, Andreas; Stokstad, Sigrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2020)
      ABM-utviklings kortvarige eksistens fortoner seg som en sammenhengende reorganiseringsprosess, skriver forfatterene i denne artikkelen om ABM-utviklings vekst og fall». Artikkelen er en popularisert versjon av den vitenskapelige artikkelen «ABM-utvikling og avvikling: Institusjonell konvergens og divergens i kulturpolitikken.» (Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift, 2019, 22, 02)
    • ABM-utvikling og avvikling: institusjonell konvergens og divergens i kulturpolitikken 

      Skare, Roswitha; Stokstad, Sigrid; Vårheim, Andreas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-11)
      The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (<i>ABM-utvikling – Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum</i>) existed between 2003 and 2010. This article raises the question of why ABM-utvikling was not continued as a cultural policy instrument for the LAM sector. The new body for LAM policy development was based on the notion of converging media expressions and institutions in the ...
    • Abstraksjon, relasjon og samisk selvrealisering: Tre malerier av Synnøve Persen 

      Aamold, Svein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
      Basert på analyser av tre malerier av Synnøve Persen utført mellom 1982 og 1993, diskuterer denne teksten forhold som abstraksjon, motiv, representasjon og relasjonelle forbindelser. Hvordan åpner slike undersøkelser for ulike oppfatninger av landskap, skjønnhet og endring, foruten samiske forståelser av natur og liv? Teksten argumenterer for disse malerienes betydning for samisk selvrealisering. ...
    • Abstraksjon, relasjon og samisk selvrealisering: Tre malerier av Synnøve Persen 

      Aamold, Svein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)
      Basert på analyser av tre malerier av Synnøve Persen utført mellom 1982 og 1993, diskuterer denne teksten forhold som abstraksjon, motiv, representasjon og relasjonelle forbindelser. Hvordan åpner slike undersøkelser for ulike oppfatninger av landskap, skjønnhet og endring, foruten samiske forståelser av natur og liv? Teksten argumenterer for disse malerienes betydning for samisk selvrealisering. I ...
    • Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser 

      Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-10)
      A search for the terms “acceptability judgment tasks” and “language” and “grammaticality judgment tasks” and “language” produces results which report findings that are based on the exact same elicitation technique. Although certain scholars have argued that acceptability and grammaticality are two separable notions that refer to different concepts, there are contexts in which the two terms are used ...
    • The Acquisition of Clitics in L2 Spanish: Examining Restrictions on Clitic Solidarity. 

      Halloran, Becky; Rothman, Jason (Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      This study examines the mental representation of clitic object pronouns in English L2 Spanish speakers of beginning, intermediate and advanced proficiencies. We present the results of a scalar grammaticality judgment task, which examines knowledge of clitic placement in both Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) verb constructions and non-ECM (finite and modal + infinitival) constructions. Our findings ...
    • The Acquisition of Compositional Definiteness in Norwegian 

      Anderssen, Merete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2007)
      This paper aims to explain why the prenominal definiteness marker found in modified structures is acquired much later than the suffixal definite article in Norwegian. The coexistence of the two definiteness markers is the result of the double definiteness phenomenon in Norwegian, which occurs in definite structures involving an attributive adjective. A lexical insertion approach to the double ...
    • The acquisition of English articles among L1 Dagbani L2 English learners 

      Kwame, Abukari; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-10)
      This study investigates the acquisition of articles in L2 English by L1 speakers of Dagbani, a Gur language spoken in Ghana. Dagbani differs from English in that it has two definite articles, no indefinite article, and a zero-article which may express definiteness, indefiniteness as well as genericity. The study consisted of a Forced-choice task (FCT) and an Acceptability judgement task (AJT) which ...
    • The acquisition of grade alternation in North Saami 

      Bals, Berit Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2004)
      This paper looks at how the North Saami grade alternation system develops in children. Grade alternation is a morphophonological process, in which foot-medial consonants alternate between two forms, the strong and the weak grade. There are qualitative alternations, quantitative alternations and in some patterns, both the length and quality of the consonants alternate. These alternations happen in ...
    • Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning 

      Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-15)
      This paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar experiments conducted with Russian children. The results of the experiments show that Norwegian children at age 2 regularly produce locative utterances lacking overt prepositions, ...
    • The acquisition of past tense in English/Norwegian bilingual children single versus dual mechanisms 

      Jensvoll, Maja Henriette (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)
      In a study of three Norwegian/English bilingual siblings, their strategies for acquiring past tense of verbs in both languages were examined. Elicitation tests were performed in both languages and the children’s performance and error patterns were examined. These results were then compared to data from monolingual English and Norwegian speaking children. The results are discussed within the framework ...
    • The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense 

      Kubota, Maki; Matzuoka, Yuko; Rothman, Jason (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 word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift 

      Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (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, ...
    • Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies 

      Andriani, Luigi; D'Alessandro, Roberta; Frasson, Alberto; van Osch, Brechje; Sorgini, Luana; Terenghi, Silvia (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 

      Østbø Munch, Christine B.; Garbacz, Piotr (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22)
    • Adjectival inflection as diagnostic for structural position: inside and outside the Icelandic definiteness domain 

      Pfaff, Alexander Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-25)
      This article attempts to account for the distribution of Icelandic adjectival inflection in a manner that also captures a problematic case that has not been satisfactorily analyzed in the literature. It is argued that weak inflection is triggered if the adjective is c-commanded by a feature [definite]. Strong inflection occurs precisely if weak inflection is not triggered. This implementation accounts ...
    • Adjective position in the code-switched speech of Spanish and Papiamento heritage speakers in the Netherlands: Individual differences and methodological considerations 

      van Osch, Brechje; Parafita Couto, M. Carmen; Boers, Ivo; Sterken, Bo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-02)
      Introduction: This study examines adjective-noun order in code-switched constructions by heritage speakers of Spanish and Papiamento in the Netherlands. Given that Dutch differs from Spanish and Papiamento regarding the default position of the adjective, word order in the nominal domain creates a so-called “conflict site” in code-switching. Most accounts of word order patterns in code-switching focus ...
    • Advantages and shortcomings of different perspectives in describing Northern Russian dak. 

      Post, Margje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2002)
      The word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence initially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions. This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six different perspectives which have been used to describe this ...