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Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-29)The effects of cognate synonymy in L2 word learning are explored. Participants learned the names of well-known concrete concepts in a new fictional language following a picture-word association paradigm. Half of the concepts (set A) had two possible translations in the new language (i.e., both words were synonyms): one was a cognate in participants’ L1 and the other one was not. The other half ... -
Critical representation of neoliberal capitalism and uneven development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-11)This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which completes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal political order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as cultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes replaced by state negligence towards citizens’ ... -
Linguistic consequences of toing and froing: Factors that modulate narrative development in bilingual returnee children
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their native language environment. The returnees did ... -
Dependent Plurals and Three Levels of Multiplicity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-07)The paper focuses on the semantics of distributivity, grammatical number, and cardinality predicates (numerals and modifiers like several). I argue that constructions involving so-called ‘dependent plurals’, i.e. plurals lacking cardinality predicates occurring in the scope of certain quantificational items such as all and most (e.g. All the girls were wearing hats), pose a challenge to familiar ... -
Flaskehalshypotesen: Syntaks og morfologiblant norske andrespråksinnlærere avengelsk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-02)Flaskehalshypotesen (‘Bottleneck Hypothesis’, Slabakova 2008, 2013) beskriver og forklarer hva som er vanskelig og hva som er enkelt i andrespråkstilegnelse. Formålet med dette er å forstå prosessen knyttet til å lære seg et nytt språk etter førstespråket. Hypotesen argumenterer for at det er morfologiske konstruksjoner som er mest utfordrende å tilegne seg. Til sammenligning skal konstruksjoner som ... -
The internal structure of Spanish–German verbalizations and the sophistication of bilinguals’ linguistic knowledge
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-14)The present article reassesses some available data regarding word-internal language mixing (Spanish–German) involving verbs and nouns. The empirical generalization is that Spanish roots can be combined with German verbalizers, but not vice versa. Data of this type highlight the sophisticated knowledge of the underlying representations that code-switching bilinguals must have of both contributing ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-08)In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition of English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three linguistic modules (morphology, syntax and syntax-semantics). We compared the L3 learners to Norwegian (N = 90) and Russian (N = 74) second language (L2) learners of English. We ... -
Linguistic consequences of toing and froing: Factors that affect the maintenance and development in returnee bilingual children.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their native language environment. The returnees did a ... -
Subject Clitics in Microcontact: A Case Study from Heritage Friulian in Argentina and Brazil
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-18)In this paper we present data from first generation immigrants (G1) and second and third generation heritage speakers of Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in North-Eastern Italy and also found in Argentina and Brazil. The target phenomenon is subject clitics (SCL s). We show that SCL s in heritage Friulian are in a process of being reanalyzed from being agreement markers to pronouns. ... -
Online-Qualifikationsmaßnahmen für DaF-Lehrer*innen in Norwegen. Welche Potentiale haben digitale Angebote im Hinblick auf die professionellen zielsprachlichen Kompetenzen der Teilnehmer*innen?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10)Bedingt durch Covid-19 gibt es immer mehr Onlineangebote auch im Hochschulbereich. Viele dieser Angebote sind Notlösungen in einer schwierigen Zeit. Die vorliegende Evaluationsstudie beschäftigt sich damit, inwiefern ein a priori digitales, nebenberufliches Studienangebot dazu geeignet sein kann, (zukünftige) DaF-Lehrkräfte mit den benötigten zielsprachlichen Kompetenzen auszubilden. Es wird ... -
Learning island-insensitivity from the input: A corpus analysis of child- And youth-directed text in norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-20)Norwegian allows filler-gap dependencies into relative clauses (RCs) and embedded questions (EQs) – domains that are usually considered islands in other languages. We conducted a corpus study on youth-directed reading material to assess what direct evidence Norwegian children receive for filler-gap dependencies into islands. Results suggest that the input contains examples of filler-gap dependencies ... -
SE in Spanish: properties, structures and analyses
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-01)This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses and theoretical issues that it raises, and exploring the prospects to unify all uses –which are over a dozen in the literature– under one same object that keeps its surface properties invariable. We will show that it is almost inescapable to propose that SE is associated to two types of objects, defective ... -
Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic Heritage Languages
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, i.e. languages acquired naturalistically by children in parts of the world where these languages are not the majority language. Summarizing research on different types of heritage speakers of Danish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish, we identify certain stable and vulnerable domains. We focus on the so far best ... -
The Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a Continuous Measure to Account for Clitic Case Alternation in Spanish Causative Constructions.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-25)In Spanish causative constructions with dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ the subject of the embedded infinitive verb can appear in the accusative or the dative case. This case alternation has been accounted for by resorting to the notion of direct vs. indirect causation. Under this account, the accusative clitic with a transitive verb denotes direct causation while the dative clitic with an intransitive ... -
The Art of Radio Documentary
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06)For many years, I have been a devoted fan of radio documentaries. Back in the 1980s and 1990s I used to record some of the documentaries on my old Phillips cassette recorder. When digital technology replaced such tapes, I put them in a drawer. To make a radio documentary, you only need a good voice recorder and a talent to connect with people. Listening to a good radio documentary, you get the ... -
Voice Onset Time in multilingual speakers: Italian heritage speakers in Germany with L3 English
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-01)This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the production of fortis and lenis stops in semi-naturalistic speech in the three languages of 20 heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with German as a majority language and English as L3. The study aims to identify the extent ... -
Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: Morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-27)Previous research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that this property is acquired early in transparent gender systems such as Russian. However, it is not clear to what extent children are sensitive to the assignment cues and to what extent they simply memorize correspondences between frequent lexical items. Furthermore, we do not know if bilingual children are different from ... -
Ongoing change in the Australian English amplifier system
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-06)This study takes a corpus-based approach to investigating ongoing change in the Australian English adjective amplifier system based on the Australian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The paper analyzes changes in amplifiers across apparent time, with special attention being placed on amplifier–adjective–bigram frequencies, to provide insights into cognitive mechanisms underlying ... -
Minority language learning in Kven through conversation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)Language learners of Kven participated in informal learning settings using the Master Apprentice method, a method often used in language revitalization. The use of this method is studied in the light of sociocultural theory of language learning, which focuses on the relationship between collaborative learning and learner autonomy. The students of Kven improved their oral proficiency when using the ... -
Brain structural correlates of autistic traits across the diagnostic divide: A grey matter and white matter microstructure study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-23)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are a set of neurodevelopmental conditions characterised by difficulties in social interaction and communication as well as stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest. Autistic traits exist in a continuum across the general population, whilst the extreme end of this distribution is diagnosed as clinical ASD. While many studies have investigated brain structure ...