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Regular and irregular inflection in different groups of bilingual children and the role of verbal short-term and verbal working memory
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-22)Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual children’s performance. Data from 231 typically developing five- to eight-year-old children were analyzed: Dutch monolingual children (N = 45), ... -
The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)The notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at decomposing the notion of complexity into smaller components in a formal grammatical model. In particular, we argue that a distributed model of the lexicon (i.e., one that assumes that principles that generate both words and ... -
Samisk kunst og norsk kunsthistorie: delvise forbindelser
(Book; Bok, 2021)Hvordan er samisk kunst fremstilt i norsk kunsthistorie? Så enkelt og så komplekst er spørsmålet som driver denne boken frem. Utgangspunktet er en nysgjerrighet omkring hvordan samisk transnasjonalstatelighet slår ut i kunsthistorien; et spørsmål som ikke tidligere har blitt fremhevet som eksplisitt innfallsvinkel i undersøkelser av samisk kunst. Tilnærmingen hviler på en antagelse om at et ... -
Transitivity on a continuum: The transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-27)This paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based on Hopper ... -
Recent advances in Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-08)This paper presents an overview of Apertium, a free and open-source rule-based machine translation platform. Translation in Apertium happens through a pipeline of modular tools, and the platform continues to be improved as more language pairs are added. Several advances have been implemented since the last publication, including some new optional modules: a module that allows rules to process recursive ... -
Essentially the Greatest Poem: Teaching New Ways of Reading American Literature
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-18)This essay arose from a debate held at the 2018 American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR) about the value of teaching American Literature and Culture survey courses at Norwegian universities. My role, as ASANOR’s president, was to facilitate the debate and offer a response. In the extended version of that response published here, I accept the critique of national survey courses as tending ... -
How Wide the Divide? – Theorizing ‘Constructions’ in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-26)What is the nature and function of mental representations in cognitive science, and in human language in particular? How do they come into existence and interact, and how is the information attributed to them stored in and retrieved from the human mind? Some theories treat constructions as primitive entities used for structure-building, central in both production and comprehension, while other ... -
Characterization in Jacob’s Room and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf :A comparative analysis of Jacob Flanders in Jacob’s Room and Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2018-11-06)This thesis takes a look at how Virginia Woolf uses her writing-style to build up characters in two different books. Woolf is famous for her use of the Stream of Consciousness-technique in several of her works, and the works chosen for this analysis is Jacob’s Room from 1922and Mrs Dalloway from 1925, two consecutively publishedworks in her ... -
Retroflexion of rhotic-plus-sibilant sequences at word junctions in Northern Norwegian dialects
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-09-15)Retroflexion at the junction of words is an optional process. Numerous previous works devoted to this topic analysed the process of retroflexion based on researcher’s intuition or examining the behaviour of retroflexes in an artificially created environment in laboratory conditions. In this work, the retroflexion of rhotic-plus-sibilant sequences at word junctions is observed in the natural ... -
The weight and representation of Ryukyuan Miyako onsets: Initial geminate moraicity, markedness, and sonority
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-09-15)This thesis examines descriptive data on the Southern Ryukyuan Miyako languages and argues for a moraic account of the initial geminates found therein. All varieties of Miyako discussed require underived words to feature at least two morae, and the initial geminates in each variety appear to satisfy the bimoraic word minimality requirement. Segmental restrictions on the coerced (derived) moraicity ... -
Fostering Critical Thinking and Ethical Awareness in English through Historical Consciousness
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-09-15)This thesis investigates how historical consciousness can be used as a literary tool of analysis in English in upper secondary school to foster the core value “Critical thinking and ethical awareness” specified in the Norwegian Education Act 2020. Based on the research on critical thinking, ethical awareness and historical consciousness, and considering the competence aims in English, a lesson plan ... -
Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)Artikkelen gir eit empirisk basert oversyn over og diskusjon av utvalde typar adjektivkongruens i attributiv og predikativ posisjon i norsk. Vi fokuserer særleg på to empiriske forhold som peikar seg ut som slåande: 1) Ved semantisk kongruens i predikativ posisjon er det tilsynelatande ingen formelle kongruenstrekk i predikasjonssubjektet som utløyser kongruens på det predikative adjektivet; ... -
The acquisition of questions by a Mandarin-English bilingual child
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-09-15)Linguists have been debating on whether the two languages of bilingual children develop separately since 1990s. Some studies suggest when the two languages are acquired very early in life, each language develops separately (the Separate Development Hypothesis), while others show that bilinguals’ two languages can influence each other and that the weaker language is more vulnerable to cross-linguistic ... -
Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-19)Although the most frequent psychological predicates in Spanish require the third-person clitic experiencer to appear in dative case, there is a well-known subclass of predicates for which the case of the clitic alternates between accusative and dative. This alternation has been previously accounted for by certain grammatical properties of the clause containing the clitic as well as elements of ... -
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 <i>dejar</i> ‘let’ and <i>hacer</i> ‘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 ... -
Cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder: drawing of nonexistent objects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors to new environments. Previous studies investigating cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) present contradictory findings. In the current study, cognitive flexibility was assessed in 5- and 6-year-old preschoolers with DLD (<i>n</i> = 23) and peers with typical development (TD; <i>n</i> = 50) ... -
Åarjelsaemien infinihte veerbehaemieh
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-16)I denne masteroppgaven analyseres sørsamiske infinitte verbformer gjennom deres morfologi, syntaks og semantikk. Målet er å finne svar på hvilke infinitte verbformer som finnes i sørsamisk med hovedvekt på funksjonsanalyse, og gjennom dette beskrive et koherent system av infinitte verbformer fra et morfosyntaktisk perspektiv. På grunnlag av en tredelt funksjonsanalyse som tar for seg predikative og ... -
Filmowe portrety Stanisława Siedleckiego (1912-2002) na tle Svalbardu: Fragmenty wizualnej historii nauki
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)The article offers a new perspective on Stanisław Siedlecki’s biography through visual history, with a particular emphasis on film history. The connections between Siedlecki’s life and the cinema can be grouped in three sections: 1. films starring Siedlecki, 2. films by Siedlecki and 3. films about Siedlecki. The film <i>Do Ziemi Torella (To Torell Land)</i> represents the pre-war period; the post-war ... -
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-07)One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than monolinguals in tasks that require monitoring and inhibiting automatic responses. The robustness of this effect is a matter of an ongoing debate, with both sides approaching bilingual ... -
Gender in Unilingual and Mixed Speech of Spanish Heritage Speakers in The Netherlands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-04)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, ...
