Institutt for språk og kultur: Recent submissions

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    • Об одном способе разгадки скрытых смыслов в русском авторском слове 

      Lønngren, Tamara (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)

    • Documenting heritage language experience using questionnaires 

      Tomić, Aleksandra; Rodina, Yulia; Bayram, Fatih; De Cat, Cecile Marie-Rose (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-23)
      Introduction: There exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by proposing a comprehensive online questionnaire building on existing questionnaires and the experience of using them to document heritage bilingualism: ...

    • Bernd Henningsen (Hg.): Nordeuropa. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. 

      Federhofer, Marie-Theres (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)

    • From machine learning to classroom learning: mobile vowels and the Russian preposition v ‘in(to)’ 

      Nesset, Tore; Xavier, Kevin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The present study reports on a machine learning experiment concerning mobile vowels in the Russian preposition v ‘in(to)’. It is shown that a neural network is able to predict mobile vowels in 97.4% of the cases in our dataset, and a decision tree is used to extract a set of three rules that a language learner can use to achieve nearly the same level of accuracy. We argue that these rules are ...

    • Meždu diskursom i konstrukciej: istorija russkogo BYVALO 

      Sokolova, Svetlana; Egorov, Dmitrij (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)

    • Fortell meg alt - En analyse av Kristín Ómarsdóttirs skuespill Segðu mér allt 

      Bjørnsten, Ine Camilla (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-12-02)
      Oppgaven er en analyse av den islandske dramatikeren Kristin Omarsdóttirs skuespill Segðu mér allt (Fortell meg alt) fra 2005. Fortell meg alt, med undertittelen Verdensbildet til ei 12 år gammel jente, handler om Guðrún som er 12 år gammel og lam fra livet og ned. Hun bor sammen med foreldrene sine i en drabantby til Reykjavik, og skuespillet viser oss virkeligheten sett fra hennes synsvinkel, ...

    • А. А. Масальская-Сурина и её воспоминания 

      Lønngren, Tamara (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      A. A. Masalskaya-Surina and her memories.

    • The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development 

      Alroqi, Haifa; Serratrice, Ludovica; Cameron-Faulkner, Thea (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-06-27)
      This study investigates the influence of the quantity, content, and context of screen media use on the language development of 85 Saudi children aged 1 to 3 years. Surveys and weekly event-based diaries were employed to track children’s screen use patterns. Language development was assessed using JISH Arabic Communicative Development Inventory (JACDI). Findings indicate that the most significant ...

    • Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija: The emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century 

      Haataja, Daniel; Niiranen, Leena Mirjam (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-08-15)
      <p>Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. <p>We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual ...

    • Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin-English child heritage speakers 

      Hao, Jiuzhou; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Sturt, Patrick (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-09-18)
      Previous research suggests that child HSs’ performance in offline linguistic tasks is typically worse than their age-matched monolingual peers and is modulated by linguistic and child-level factors. This study examined the comprehension and production of three Mandarin non-canonical structures in 5- to 9-year-old Mandarin–English heritage children and Mandarin-speaking monolingual children, including ...

    • Experience of discrimination in egalitarian societies: the Sámi and majority populations in Sweden and Norway 

      Yasar, Rusen; Bergmann, Fabian; Lloyd-Smith, Anika; Schmid, Sven-Patrick; Holzinger, Katharina; Kupisch, Tanja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-29)
      The Sámi people stand out as the only Indigenous minority in an egalitarian European context, namely the Nordic Countries. Therefore, inequalities that they may face are worth closer inspection. Drawing on the distinction between inequalities among individuals (vertical) and between groups (horizontal), we investigate how different types of inequalities affect the Sámi today. We formulate a series ...

    • Por qué vienen palabras (complejas) en los diccionarios. 

      Fabregas, Antonio (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-27)
      Una dificultad aparente para cualquier sistema que proponga procedimientos generativos en la formación de palabras es el hecho de que los diccionarios deben incluir muy frecuentemente algunas palabras complejas incluso cuando no tienen valores idiosincrásicos. Este artículo argumenta que el problema se disuelve cuando se atiende a dos hechos gramaticales: la selección se produce de un núcleo a ...

    • “Threat” in Russian–A Linguistic Perspective 

      Nesset, Tore; Makarova, Anastasia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-08)
      The present study explores a frequent concept in modern media discourse, namely “threat,” based on a corpus analysis of the two Russian nouns groza and ugroza from 1800 to 2020. We show that the two words share a network of submeanings, but that they have different centers of gravity in the network. We identify four submeanings and suggest that the distribution of the two words has changed over ...

    • Two Nominal Clause-Types in Northern Mansi: An Experimental Study of Language Variation 

      Horváth, Csilla; Mus, Nikolett (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-10)
      The paper examines the structure and distribution of two types of nominal/adjectival predicates in the Northern Mansi language. A nominative noun or adjective serves as the predicate in one construction. The other predicate type contains a predicate noun or adjective that takes translative case marking. In both constructions, the stative-like copula ōl- ’be, exist’ can also appear, though ...

    • CLILiG – Übergänge zwischen den Bildungsstufen 

      Daryai-Hansen, Petra Gillyard; Lindemann, Beate Hildegard; Budvytyte, Aina (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-11-10)

    • Arctic cooperation between Norway and Russia in healthcare delivery and emergency preparedness on Svalbard: barriers and facilitators 

      Wæhler, Turid Austin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-12-25)
      <p>This interdisciplinary study explores whether increased cooperation in healthcare delivery and emergency preparedness between Norway and Russia on the Arctic archipelago Svalbard may increase the quality of these services and whether cooperation is desired. <p>Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted and the respondents were asked to describe the current cooperation. Further, they were ...

    • Literature as Self-Scrutiny. An Examination of Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" 

      Gaasland, Rolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-29)
      The point of departure for this article is Peter U. Beicken's description of Franz Kafka's distinctive narrative rhetoric. It examines the extent to which Beicken's description can be applied to Kafka's short text "A Hunger Artist". The article argues that Beicken's description is relevant to the understanding of this text, but that this particular text also deviates from his description in interesting ...

    • Rhetoric and the Creation of Space. The Utterance in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Wandrers Nachtlied II" and Rainer Maria Rilke's "Herbst" 

      Gaasland, Rolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-08-29)
      This article attempts to make sense of the speaker in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s «Wandrers Nachtlied II» and Rainer Maria Rilke’s «Herbst». It starts from the observation that the utterance in both poems combines a rhetorical function with a space-creating function, and that both functions participate in the poem’s organization as a communicative act in decisive ways. My conclusion is that the ...

    • Driving safety: Investigating the cognitive foundations of accident prevention 

      Tapia, Jose L.; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-21)
      Driving is a crucial aspect of personal independence, and accurate assessment of driving skills is vital for ensuring road safety. This study aimed to identify reliable cognitive predictors of safe driving through a driving simulator experiment. We assessed the driving performance of 66 university students in two distinct simulated driving conditions and evaluated their cognitive skills in ...

    • Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian 

      Kędzierska, Hanna; Rataj, Karolina; Balas, Anna; Cal, Zuzanna; Castle, Chloe Michelle; Wrembel, Magdalena (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-12)
      Introduction: Research on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in monolingual and bilingual speakers has shown significant differences in L1 versus L2 phonemic perception. In this study, we examined whether the MMN response is sensitive to the differences between L1, L2 and L3/Ln.<p> <p>Methods: We compared bioelectrical brain activity in response to changes in pairs of vowels produced in three different ...