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dc.contributor.authorLundquist, Bjørn
dc.contributor.authorRodina, Yulia
dc.contributor.authorSekerina, Irina
dc.contributor.authorWestergaard, Marit
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16T11:13:31Z
dc.date.available2017-03-16T11:13:31Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-04
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the Tromsø ( N = 46) and Sortland ( N = 54) dialects participated in a Visual Word experiment. The task examined whether they used indefinite articles ( en , ei , et ) predictively to identify nouns during spoken-word recognition, and whether they produced feminine articles in an elicited production task. Results show that all speakers used the neuter indefinite article et as a predictive cue, but no speakers used the feminine ei predictively, regardless of whether they produced it or not. The masculine article en was used predictively only by the speakers who did not produce feminine gender forms. We hypothesize that in dialects where the feminine gender is disappearing, this change in the gender system affects comprehension first, even before speakers stop producing the feminine indefinite article.en_US
dc.descriptionSource:<a href=https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2016.2.issue-s1/lingvan-2016-0026/lingvan-2016-0026.xml>https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationLundquist B, Rodina Y, Sekerina I, Westergaard M. Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production . Linguistics Vanguard. 2016;2(1):69-83en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1405360
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026
dc.identifier.issn2199-174X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10728
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publishervariationen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyter. Linguistics Vanguarden_US
dc.relation.journalLinguistics Vanguard
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 223265en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.subjectPsycholinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectVariationen_US
dc.subjectgrammatical genderen_US
dc.subjectlanguage changeen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Norwegian dialectsen_US
dc.subjectVisual World paradigmen_US
dc.subjectPsychLingVaren_US
dc.titleGender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Productionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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