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Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-14)This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian. To this end, 54 adult HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed a self-paced reading task (SPRT) and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT). Markedness was manipulated by probing agreement with ... -
What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-12)Previous research on real-time sentence processing in German has shown that listeners use the morphological marking of accusative case on a sentence-initial noun phrase to not only interpret the current argument as the object and patient, but also to predict a plausible agent. So far, less is known about the use of case marking to predict the semantic role of upcoming arguments after the subject/agent ... -
Family Attitudes towards Multilingualism in Bilingual Education Programs and Their Relationship with Academic Performance
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-21)This article reports on a large-scale study investigating the overall perception of multilingualism in the family environment of children enrolled in an English immersion program in primary schools across Spain and the potential relationship between these attitudes and the student’s academic performance. One thousand and one families participated in the study, based on a tailored questionnaire ... -
On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-26)Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted public health and our lifestyles, leading to new social adaptations such as quarantine, social distancing, and facial masks. Face masks, covering extended facial zones, hamper our ability to extract relevant socio-emotional information from others’ faces. In this fMRI study, we investigated how face masks interfere with facial emotion recognition, ... -
Солдат. Бойовий посібник для військовослужбовця
(2024)<p>Ця книга розроблена для боротьби з росією, що має чисельну перевагу. Описані тут методи довели свою ефективність у бою, зокрема в обороні України. Щоби перевершити ворога, військовослужбовцю та його підрозділу необхідно постійно тренуватися та розвиватися і в особистому, і в колективному вимірі. <p>Книга насамперед містить інструкції та поради щодо поведінки військовослужбовця на полі бою ... -
Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-14)This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order to examine potential differences in acquisition of two dissimilar dialects in Norwegian by L3 speakers. The analyses focus on dialectal and accentual ... -
Brain Correlates of Attentional Load Processing Reflect Degree of Bilingual Engagement: Evidence from EEG
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-13)The present study uses electroencephalography (EEG) with an N-back task (0-, 1-, and 2-back) to investigate if and how individual bilingual experiences modulate brain activity and cognitive processes. The N-back is an especially appropriate task given recent proposals situating bilingual effects on neurocognition within the broader attentional control system (Bialystok and Craik, 2022). Beyond its ... -
Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice: Expanding the Framework
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-23)In this paper, we build on an earlier operationalization of Aarseth and Calleja’s cybermedia model for an interdisciplinary evaluation of games as potential tools and objects for teaching and learning. Here, we critically develop the model and original template, and expand its four dimensions with two additional layers. We then use the expanded framework on concrete examples to illustrate how the ... -
Expanding structures while reducing mappings: Morphosyntactic complexity in agglutinating heritage languages
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-25)Research on heritage language grammars to date provides overwhelming support for the general stability of their syntactic systems, while the status of their morphology can vary considerably. In this chapter we offer remarks on the morphological complexity of agglutinating heritage languages, taking a closer look at a number of phenomena in Labrador Inuttitut, Cherokee, and American Hungarian. Four ... -
Verb placement in embedded clauses in heritage Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-26)Purpose: This study examines embedded clauses with adverb/negation in heritage speakers of Norwegian in North America. We ask (a) whether the production of these structures is different from the baseline, (b) how the production is different, and (c) why it is different.<p> <p>Methodology: 50second to fifth-generation speakers from the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS) are compared with ... -
Et valgskred uten velgere
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2024-07-09)Det var ikke Keir Starmer som vant valget i Storbritannia. Det var Rishi Sunak som tapte. -
Professional identity of public librarians, archivists, and museum professionals in five European countries
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-10)Purpose - The purpose is to investigate the professional identity of public library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Sweden.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - The data have been gathered through the administration of three questionnaires. A comprehensive analysis is conducted to explore the variations in the professionals’ perceptions of their ... -
Dáiddakártta. Cartography in Contemporary Art Practices
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-07-26)This article explores contemporary art practices in Sápmi which utilise maps as a tool and medium. The importance of the artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen’s abundant maps from the mid-1970s is acknowledged, and furthermore the article looks into examples from the next generation Sámi artists who create dáiddakárta, which literally translates to art maps. Although not a traditional Sámi way of mapping and ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-31)The present study examins how adults who speak Turkish as their first language and English as their second language acquire possessive pronouns in Norwegian as their third language, focusing on cross-linguistic influence. The study uses a combination of methods including a language history questionnaire, Norwegian and English proficiency tests, and an acceptability judgement task, while testing the ... -
The Power of Literature: Mental Health Education in The English Upper-Secondary Classroom
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-13)This thesis investigates how and why English literature should be used in the upper-secondary classroom to increase awareness, knowledge and empathy in relation to mental health, for the purpose of decreasing the stigmatization of mental illness and mental health problems. This thesis conducts a literature analysis of the novel Normal People (Rooney, 2018) and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive (Haig, ... -
Reading for Empathy: How Grace and Dignity in Small Great Things and Disgrace Foster All-round Development. The development of ethical awareness and compassion through reading literature
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)This thesis examines the presence of grace and dignity in literature to explore the benefits of reading literature to develop empathy and compassion towards others. Literature provides insight into new perspectives, ideas, and cultures. This thesis examines methods to engage with literature to make it a constructive tool for acquiring ethical awareness based on the philosophy of Levinas. Based on a ... -
Remake it, Remix it, and Queer it Up
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-16)This thesis analyzes fanfiction and the community surrounding fan made media as a source of comfort for queer youth. A large majority of those who read and write fanfiction are queer and include their own relationships with queerness in their writing. The people writing fanfiction spend their own time and energy to share stories about their favorite characters for free, giving anyone access ... -
Jonathan, Mina and the Holiest Love: Intimations of a Virtuous Queerness in Dracula (1897)
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)The first few chapters of Bram Stoker’s Gothic thriller Dracula (1897) conform closely to the classic Gothic narrative of imperiled heroine and menacing Gothic villain, except that the role of young, imprisoned ingénue goes to the male Jonathan Harker. The subversion of genre-based gender expectations introduced by the dissonance between the character and his role introduces a theme of transgressive ... -
The Acquisition of Aspect in L2 English by Greek speakers: A Feature Reassembly Approach
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-14)Abstract Aims and objectives: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate factors influencing the acquisition of aspect, the internal temporal conceptualization of events in predicates, in second language acquisition. The main objective is to examine which and to what extent the following linguistic components influence the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis; the learners’ age thus their linguistic ... -
Bei and Bei Passives
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-14)The thesis is a generative study of the categorial status of bei in Standard Chinese and the derivation of its related passive structures. It first covers the fundamentals of Chinese grammar and provides an overview of previous research on bei and bei passives. This enables the reader to develop a preliminary understanding of this passive structure and empowers them to form their own judgments. By ...
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