• Dynamikken i en språkendringsprosess: Bortfall av hunkjønnsformer i norsk 

      Lundquist, Bjørn; Klassen, Rachel; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-12)
      Det finnes betydelig regional og sosiolingvistisk variasjon i genusssystemet inorsk, hovedsakelig når det gjelder hunkjønnskategorien. Mange morsmåls-talere av norsk har et robust tregenussystem (hankjønn, hunkjønn og intetkjønn),mens andre har et system med kun to genus (felleskjønn og intetkjønn), der alleeller de fleste hunkjønnsformene er erstattet av hankjønnsformer. Uavhengig avdialekt er alle ...
    • Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers 

      Klassen, Rachel; Kolb, Nadine; Hopp, Holger; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-01)
      Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between lexical (grammatical gender) and syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in L2 German. Eighty-six L1 Spanish-L2 German and thirty-six monolingual German adults completed a German self-paced reading task with noun phrases (NPs) manipulated by L1-L2 gender ...
    • L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon 

      Klassen, Rachel; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-01)
      In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development from three to two genders, involving the loss of feminine) may be refected in processing. We carried out a gender decision task in which speakers were presented with 32 nouns ...