This entry offers an overview over applications of the the concept of realism in game studies. After a general description of the term, I move on to an aesthetic notion of realism before I direct attention to its use in videogames research. I show that realism in game studies is about more than photorealist representation of surface phenomena and that it also needs to account for players’ perceptions.

This article provides a general survey of a number of (mostly Indo-European) gender systems. In recent years, regularities found in those systems have been accounted for by rule-based approaches where gender is assigned on-line by symbolic rules. A critical investigation of those accounts suggests that gender of existing nouns is stored individually, but that there must also be a mechanism that ...

Agreement attraction, where ungrammatical sentences are perceived as grammatical (e.g., <i>*The key to the cabinets were rusty</i>), has been influential in motivating models of memory access during language comprehension. It is contested, however, whether such effects arise due to a faulty representation of relevant morphosyntactic features, or as a result of memory retrieval. Existing studies of ...

This study examines heritage speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands regarding their production of gender in both their languages (Spanish and Dutch) as well as their gender assignment strategies in code-switched constructions. A director-matcher task was used to elicit unilingual and mixed speech from 21 participants (aged 8 to 52, mean = 17). The nominal domain consisting of a determiner, noun, ...

This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system. The data obtained from the Oromo Speech Corpus shows a high degree of lexical and ...

Despite the poly-vocal and heterogeneous gendered realities that come through in "We Sinners" and (ex-) Laestadian women's life narratives, from the perspectives of secular society and mainstream feminism, the role or place of North American Laestadian women—in the “home,” “social networks,” and “believer communities”—would likely be interpreted as laden with patriarchal oppression. This study aims ...

Genitiv 2 er maskuliner av første deklinasjon entall som tar u-endelse i genitiv. Det er langt fra alle ord som kan ta genitiv 2 og en kan forstå det som et unntak fra regelen om a-endelse i genitiv. Allikevel kan en ofte møte genitiv 2 i russisk. Mastergradsoppgaven er en empirisk undersøkelse som tar utgangspunkt i det ulike grammatikker hevder. Undersøkelse av faktisk bruk er gjort i internettkorpuset ...

Hva kjennetegner genuskategorien i langvarige kontaktsituasjoner som involverer norsk som er et genusspråk, og kvensk/samisk som ikke har genus? Forskningslitteraturen har så langt gitt oss to svar: for det første forenkling eller oppløsning, og for det andre stor og usystematisk variasjon. Vi presenterer her en ny studie av genus i nordlige språkkontaktområder der funnene peker mot alternative ...