The present study investigates crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in the acquisition of L3 English by Russian-Norwegian children in attempt to understand how previous knowledge of two typologically distant languages affects the acquisition of the language that shows structural similarities with both languages and what role language dominance plays in this process. The participants were tested through ...

The acquisition of consonant clusters is determined by several underlying factors, and recent studies demonstrated that input frequency, investigated in isolation, cannot account for the order of acquisition (e.g., Jarosz 2017). The study conducted in this thesis was an empirical test of the theories of phonological acquisition. It investigated the simplification patterns occurring in initial clusters ...

Bi-/multilingualism has been found to act favourably on the cognitive aging (CA) trajectory due to the increased executive functioning demands that dual-language use exerts on the brain leading to contributions to neurocognitive reserve and resilience. There is a gap in the literature on how individual differences in the degree of multilingualism influence this trajectory. Furthermore, other lifestyle ...

Aims and objectives: This thesis investigates the role of the previously acquired languages, Persian and English, in the acquisition of morphosyntax of an artificial language (AL) at the very early stages of third language acquisition (L3A). The main objective of the study is to ask how lexical and syntactic similarities between the L3 and previously acquired languages affect crosslinguistic influence ...

Why read poetry and fiction when the world is burning, drowning, and quaking? This thesis seeks to provide an answer by arguing for the political efficacy of contemporary ecopoetry and ecofiction. Instead of viewing reading as an escape from ecopolitical struggles, I show the limited but productive role of literature in a time of crisis. Read together, Juliana Spahr’s book of poetry This Connection ...

Cyclic peptides show a wide range of biological activities, among others as antibacterial agents. These peptides are often large and flexible with multiple chiral centers. The determination of the stereochemistry of molecules with multiple chiral centers is a challenging and important task in drug development. Chiroptical spectroscopies such as vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) can ...

Introduction: The fluctuation of external match load throughout a season is influenced by several contextual factors. While some, have been deeply analysed in men’s football literature, information is lacking on how other contextual elements, such as player’s age or experience, may affect the match-to-match variability of locomotor activities. In fact, aging has been described as a multifactorial ...

We report a mild superbase-catalyzed and nitrogen-selective carboxylation of N-heteroaryls, with subsequent alkylation enabling the synthesis of drug-like O-alkyl carbamates in good yields (av. 86%). Our findings suggest a partial revision of the current mechanistic understanding as superbases upon mixing with indoles and azoles generally form uncharged hydrogen-bonded complexes and not ionic salts ...

Det ukrainske konstruktikonet er en forskningsbasert pedagogisk ressurs som tilbyr beskrivelser av de mest frekvente og typiske ukrainske setningsmønstre og frasemønstre.

The sense of touch is underrepresented in cognitive psychology research. One of the reasons is that controlling the timing of stimulus presentation, which is a hallmark of cognitive research, is significantly more difficult for tactile stimuli than visual or auditory stimuli. In the present work, we present a system to display tactile stimuli (braille cells) and collect response time with the ...