Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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Knut Hamsun´s Segelfoss Books. A Green Criticism of the Consumer Society?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05)The novels of the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun can be seen as an ongoing discussion with modernity. In some parts his critique is reactionary, in other parts worth listening to. This article deals with his Segelfoss novels, Hamsun’s satirical representation of the commodity trade within the emerging capitalist market and the role of the consumer. The novels may be read as early and ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Child L3 English: An Empirical Study on Russian-German Heritage Bilinguals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-27)Aims and objectives: This empirical study investigates variables affecting crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. We examine whether structural or typological similarity leads to CLI from one or both of the previously acquired languages at later stages of acquisition. <p>Design/methodology: We compare Russian-German heritage bilinguals acquiring L3 English to ... -
Cyclic feeding interactions between finite-state mal-rules:an algorithm for the optimal grouping and ordering of mal-rules
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-30)Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems typically attempt to automatically diagnose learner errors in order to provide individualized feedback. One common approach is the use of mal-rules to extend normative grammars by licensing specific types of learner errors. In finite-state morphologies, mal-rules can be implemented as two-level rules or replace rules. However, unlike the phonological rules of ... -
L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-01)In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be refected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns ... -
Domains and directionality in Kinande vowel harmony: a Correspondence approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-30)The ATR vowel harmony patterns observed in Kinande have received persistent attention for their combination of stem control and dominance, as well as less familiar phenomena such as dominance reversal and cross-word harmony. This paper provides a Syntagmatic Correspondence analysis of the Kinande vowel harmony system and demonstrates that it straightforwardly accounts for the intricate interaction ... -
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 ... -
Testing Potential Transfer Effects in Heritage and Adult L2 Bilinguals Acquiring a Mini Grammar as an Additional Language: An ERP Approach.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-20)Models on L3/Ln acquisition differ with respect to how they envisage degree (holistic vs. selective transfer of the L1, L2 or both) and/or timing (initial stages vs. development) of how the influence of source languages unfolds. This study uses EEG/ERPs to examine these models, bringing together two types of bilinguals: heritage speakers (HSs) (Italian-German, n = 15) compared to adult L2 learners ... -
Imperfect language learning reduces morphological overspecification: Experimental evidence
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-27)It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language imperfectly. A growing number of studies support this claim, but there is a dearth of experiments that evaluate it and the suggested explanatory mechanisms. We performed a large-scale experiment which directly tested whether imperfect ... -
Fremstillinger av nordmenn i okkupasjonsavisa Deutsche Polarzeitung, senere Polar-Kurier (1941–1945)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-11)Propaganda hadde stor betydning i den tyske nasjonalsosialismen, og i denne sammenheng var pressen et viktig redskap. Det ble derfor etablert tyske aviser i de okkuperte områdene. Denne artikkelen tar for seg representasjoner av nordmenn over tid i en av disse avisene i Norge: Deutsche Polarzeitung, senere Polar-Kurier, utgitt i Tromsø 9. februar 1941–6. mai 1945. Jeg viser at fremstillingene av ... -
Child Second Language Development in Immersion Education: A Study on Generic Determiner Phrases in L2 German and L2 French
(Book; Bok, 2022)Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acquisition has centered around adult learners, leaving child learners understudied by comparison. This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional empirical study herein investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English speaking children acquiring German ... -
Securing strategic input for L2 learners: Constructions with Russian motion verbs
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-02-21)This article shows how constructional and usage-based approaches to linguistics can be used to identify strategic input for L2 learners, i.e. input that reflects high frequency patterns in the target language. We suggest a methodology combining constructional and grammatical profiles, and argue that this methodology enables us to identify the most relevant morphological and syntactic constructions, ... -
Successes and shortcomings of phonological accounts of Scandinavian object shift
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)Object shift (OS) is a word order phenomenon in Scandinavian languages where under some circumstances the object appears before a sentential adverb. Despite the frequent assumptions that word order is determined in syntax, and despite the link of OS and syntactic phenomena like V2, there is no consensus that OS is a syntactic phenomenon. Particularly, it has been observed that OS targets specifically ... -
Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-28)Upon hearing someone’s speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker’s age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an open question is whether living in diferent locales modulates how listeners use these factors to assess speakers’ speech. Here, an audio-visual test was used to measure whether listeners’ accentedness judgments and intelligibility ... -
Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-02)In the present meta-analysis, we investigated the robustness and the magnitude of the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – that is, the putative effect of language context (native versus foreign language) on decision-making. We also investigated whether the FLE is moderated by language experience – measured by second language age of acquisition and proficiency – or by methodological choices – the types ... -
Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-01)The keynote article by Titone & Tiv (2022) represents a key step forward in characterizing and quantifying bilingual experience, and how this may be leveraged to examine neurocognitive outcomes. The framework takes a novel multi-leveled approach to capturing and describing language experience. The first level handles the direct language use dynamics of a given individual or ego-driven language dynamics. ... -
Svalbard w filmach polskich z lat 50. i 60. XX w. Perspektywa geografii wizualnej
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-11)We propose to look at the 1950s–60s Polish documentaries about Svalbard through the prism of visual geography. We analyse the films by Włodzimierz Puchalski and Jarosław Brzozowski. Svalbard’s landscape appears as a character in these films. The films have not been considered from a geographical viewpoint before, and some of them have not yet been studied at all. -
Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-29)Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation. Some authors argue that cross-dependency variation is more readily accounted for by discourse-functional constraints that take into account the discourse status of both the ... -
The Multilingual Picture Database
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-21)The growing interdisciplinary research feld of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, which dominates the feld. One type of such tools are picture datasets which provide naming norms for everyday objects. However, existing databases tend to be small in terms of ... -
Det russiske konstruktikonet: hva er det for noe?
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Measureless quantificational exclamatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)There is considerable variation related to the form of exclamatives across North Germanic varieties (see Delsing 2010 and Abels and Vangsnes 2010). However, in the Nordic Syntax Database there is only information about one particular and somewhat special kind of exclamative construction, here termed ‘measureless quantificational exclamative’ and exemplified by the Swedish example in (1). (1) Vad ...