Blar i forfatter "Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll"

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    • Discovering gender and inflection. A view from Icelandic 

      Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-09-20)
      <p>In this dissertation, I investigate the nature of generalizations in grammatical gender and inflectional morphology from a learning perspective. Cross-linguistic differences in children’s learning trajectories have been at the forefront of research on the acquisition of grammatical gender. Transparency has been argued to be predictive of children’s behavior in gender acquisition (Slobin, 1977). ...

    • The Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandic 

      Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll; Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-18)
      Heritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with respect to the same or different grammatical phenomena, but teasing these apart requires longitudinal studies or carefully selected cross-sectional data (Montrul, 2008; 2016; ...

    • Productivity and the acquisition of gender 

      Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-04)
      Children's differing learning trajectories cross-linguistically have been at the forefront of gender acquisition research, often with conflicting results and conclusions. As a result, the source of children's different learning behaviors in gender acquisition has been unclear. I argue that children's gender acquisition is driven by the search for productive patterns. First, I provide corpus studies ...