Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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Samfunnsoppdrag under press Erfaringer og vurderinger i norske bibliotek under Covid-19
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-15)Siden mars 2020 har Covid-19-pandemien rammet det norske samfunnet på ulike måter. Foruten de helsemessige ringvirkningene, har privat og offentlig sektor vært nødt til å tilpasse seg den pågående krisen. De første inngripende smitteverntiltakene i Norge ble innført 12. mars. Sentrale myndigheter ga beskjed om at skoler og barnehager skulle stenge –sammen med blant annet kultur-og ... -
Regular and irregular inflection in different groups of bilingual children and the role of verbal short-term and verbal working memory
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-22)Bilingual children often experience difficulties with inflectional morphology. The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate how regularity of inflection in combination with verbal short-term and working memory (VSTM, VWM) influences bilingual children’s performance. Data from 231 typically developing five- to eight-year-old children were analyzed: Dutch monolingual children (N = 45), ... -
The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)The notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at decomposing the notion of complexity into smaller components in a formal grammatical model. In particular, we argue that a distributed model of the lexicon (i.e., one that assumes that principles that generate both words and ... -
Samisk kunst og norsk kunsthistorie: delvise forbindelser
(Book; Bok, 2021)Hvordan er samisk kunst fremstilt i norsk kunsthistorie? Så enkelt og så komplekst er spørsmålet som driver denne boken frem. Utgangspunktet er en nysgjerrighet omkring hvordan samisk transnasjonalstatelighet slår ut i kunsthistorien; et spørsmål som ikke tidligere har blitt fremhevet som eksplisitt innfallsvinkel i undersøkelser av samisk kunst. Tilnærmingen hviler på en antagelse om at et ... -
Transitivity on a continuum: The transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-27)This paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based on Hopper ... -
Recent advances in Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-08)This paper presents an overview of Apertium, a free and open-source rule-based machine translation platform. Translation in Apertium happens through a pipeline of modular tools, and the platform continues to be improved as more language pairs are added. Several advances have been implemented since the last publication, including some new optional modules: a module that allows rules to process recursive ... -
Essentially the Greatest Poem: Teaching New Ways of Reading American Literature
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-18)This essay arose from a debate held at the 2018 American Studies Association of Norway (ASANOR) about the value of teaching American Literature and Culture survey courses at Norwegian universities. My role, as ASANOR’s president, was to facilitate the debate and offer a response. In the extended version of that response published here, I accept the critique of national survey courses as tending ... -
How Wide the Divide? – Theorizing ‘Constructions’ in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-26)What is the nature and function of mental representations in cognitive science, and in human language in particular? How do they come into existence and interact, and how is the information attributed to them stored in and retrieved from the human mind? Some theories treat constructions as primitive entities used for structure-building, central in both production and comprehension, while other ... -
Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)Artikkelen gir eit empirisk basert oversyn over og diskusjon av utvalde typar adjektivkongruens i attributiv og predikativ posisjon i norsk. Vi fokuserer særleg på to empiriske forhold som peikar seg ut som slåande: 1) Ved semantisk kongruens i predikativ posisjon er det tilsynelatande ingen formelle kongruenstrekk i predikasjonssubjektet som utløyser kongruens på det predikative adjektivet; ... -
Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-19)Although the most frequent psychological predicates in Spanish require the third-person clitic experiencer to appear in dative case, there is a well-known subclass of predicates for which the case of the clitic alternates between accusative and dative. This alternation has been previously accounted for by certain grammatical properties of the clause containing the clitic as well as elements of ... -
The Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a continuous measure to account for clitic case alternation in Spanish causative constructions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-25)In Spanish causative constructions with <i>dejar</i> ‘let’ and <i>hacer</i> ‘make’ the subject of the embedded infinitive verb can appear in the accusative or the dative case. This case alternation has been accounted for by resorting to the notion of direct vs. indirect causation. Under this account, the accusative clitic with a transitive verb denotes direct causation while the dative clitic with ... -
Cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder: drawing of nonexistent objects
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt thoughts and behaviors to new environments. Previous studies investigating cognitive flexibility in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) present contradictory findings. In the current study, cognitive flexibility was assessed in 5- and 6-year-old preschoolers with DLD (<i>n</i> = 23) and peers with typical development (TD; <i>n</i> = 50) ... -
Filmowe portrety Stanisława Siedleckiego (1912-2002) na tle Svalbardu: Fragmenty wizualnej historii nauki
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)The article offers a new perspective on Stanisław Siedlecki’s biography through visual history, with a particular emphasis on film history. The connections between Siedlecki’s life and the cinema can be grouped in three sections: 1. films starring Siedlecki, 2. films by Siedlecki and 3. films about Siedlecki. The film <i>Do Ziemi Torella (To Torell Land)</i> represents the pre-war period; the post-war ... -
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-07)One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than monolinguals in tasks that require monitoring and inhibiting automatic responses. The robustness of this effect is a matter of an ongoing debate, with both sides approaching bilingual ... -
Gender in Unilingual and Mixed Speech of Spanish Heritage Speakers in The Netherlands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-04)This study examines heritage speakers of Spanish in The Netherlands regarding their production of gender in both their languages (Spanish and Dutch) as well as their gender assignment strategies in code-switched constructions. A director-matcher task was used to elicit unilingual and mixed speech from 21 participants (aged 8 to 52, mean = 17). The nominal domain consisting of a determiner, noun, ... -
Public Consultation on Proposed Revisions to Norway's Gene Technology Act: An Analysis of the Consultation Framing, Stakeholder Concerns, and the Integration of Non-Safety Considerations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-08)In Norway, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are regulated through the Gene Technology Act of 1993, which has received international attention for its inclusion of non-safety considerations. In 2017, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board triggered a process to revise the Act that included a public consultation and resulted in the “Proposal for relaxation.” Using poststructuralist discourse ... -
Grammatical Gender and Declension Class in Language Change: A Study of the Loss of Feminine Gender in Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-28)In this paper, we investigate an ongoing change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian. Previous research has shown that the feminine form of the indefinite article is quickly disappearing from several dialects, which has led to claims that the feminine gender is being lost from the language. We have carried out a study of the status of the feminine in possessives across five age groups of ... -
Expecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processing
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-11)Despite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch processing costs (e.g., Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus on the code-switch itself instead of its potential subsequent benefits. Motivated by corpus studies on CS patterns and sociopragmatic functions of CS, we asked whether bilinguals use code-switches as a cue to the lexical ... -
The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian: A reaction time study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-17)This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or ... -
Interdependence between L1 and L2: the case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-15)Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 living in Canada (n = 56) and the Netherlands (n = 47). Our goal was to establish the impact of the first language (L1 = Syrian Arabic) skills on L2 (English, Dutch) outcomes and whether ...