Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-18)Vocabulary learning occurs throughout the lifespan, often implicitly. For foreign language learners, this is particularly challenging as they must acquire a large number of new words with little exposure. In the present study, we explore the effects of contextual diversity—namely, the number of texts a word appears in—on native and foreign language word learning. Participants read several texts that ... -
Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-14)How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the ... -
Morphological variation and development in a Northern Norwegian role play register
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-18)This paper investigates the variation in and development of a set of morphological variables in a register known to be used by Norwegian children when engaging in role play. In this register they code-switch to something resembling the standard or Oslo variety for their in-character role utterances. The variation across variables, subjects, and age is demonstrated and discussed, and although most ... -
Tuberkulose som tegn på virkelighet i Hamsuns Victoria (1898)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-10)I Victoria (1898) av Knut Hamsun dør den kvinnelige hovedpersonen av tuberkulose bare 23 år gammel. Victoria er en av Hamsuns mest kjente romaner, men tuberkulosen som motiv har kun i liten grad påkalt kritikernes interesse. I denne artikkelen vil jeg drøfte hvordan fremstillingen av tuberkulose korresponderer med Hamsuns egen sykdomserfaring, samt med de rådende historiske og kulturelle forestillinger ... -
On the Status of Transfer in Adult Third Language Acquisition of Early Bilinguals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-04)The study of linguistic transfer—understood here in terms of the copying of previous linguistic representations—seeks to reveal how domain-relevant prior language knowledge impacts the acquisition and development of new mental representations more generally. Studying sequential multilingualism offers a natural laboratory to observe cognitive-economical mechanisms that avoid redundancy in language ... -
In memoriam Lía Schwartz (1941-2020)
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)El 31 de mayo de este año 2020 falleció en Nueva York la gran filóloga Lía Schwartz (Corrientes, Argentina, 1941). La noticia de su fallecimiento tuvo repercusión en diferentes medios académicos e institucionales de Europa, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos, y evidenció la gran admiración, el agradecimiento y el profundo respeto que los hispanistas —en especial los dedicados al Siglo de Oro— tenían ... -
Processing Code-Switches in the Presence of Others: An ERP Study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-26)Code-switching is highly socially constrained. For instance, code-switching is only felicitous when those present are fluent in both languages. This means that bilinguals need to dynamically adjust their language control and expectation of code-switching to the current social situation or context. The aim of the present EEG study was to investigate how and when language control in the comprehension ... -
No Bilingual Benefits Despite Relations Between Language Switching and Task Switching
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-24)Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing cognitive control. Bilinguals’ enhanced cognitive control is thought to be caused by the necessity to exert more language control in bilingual compared to monolingual settings. Surprisingly, between-group research of cognitive effects of bilingualism is hardly ever combined with within-group research that ... -
Carving the body at its joints: Does the way we speak about the body shape the way we think about it?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-26)Looking at the way different linguistic communities speak about a universally shared domain of experience raises questions that are central to the language sciences. How can we compare meaning across languages? What is the interaction between language, thought, and perception? Does linguistic diversity entail linguistic relativism? The literature on the naming systems of the body across languages ... -
‘Then suddenly I spoke a lot of Spanish’ – Changing linguistic practices and heritage language from adolescents’ points of view
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-08)This article investigates the multilingual experiences of three Norwegian and Spanish-speaking adolescents with transnational backgrounds. Drawing on narrative analysis and positioning theory, the article seeks to understand how the adolescents position themselves in relation to different expectations of linguistic competence, identities, and their cultural and linguistic inheritance. By investigating ... -
“Quiero juksar en la julaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13–18 years old). The families have different linguistic backgrounds, but have in common that one of the parents have ... -
Språkleg toleranse i Noreg: Norge, for faen!
(Book; Bok, 2013)Er vi nordmenn eigentleg så språktolerante som vi likar å tru? Blant språkforskarar utanlands blir Noreg sett på som eit land med stor takhøgd for språkleg mangfald. Men i kva grad set eigentleg det norske folket pris på språkmangfald? Kvifor ser ein stadig negative og til dels hatske utfall mot nynorsk? Kvifor møter meir synleggjering av samisk språk i Nord-Noreg sterk folkeleg motstand? Er det ... -
Una nota sobre la marca '-d' del imperativo plural
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2020)En este trabajo argumentamos que la marca -d que aparece en las variedades de español peninsular en el imperativo plural no expresa concordancia con el sujeto. Nuestra propuesta es que su posición sintáctica es asimilable a los pronombres clíticos de participante. El motivo de que deba aparecer en la forma plural es que la estructura clausal del imperativo está empobrecida, de manera que para expresar ... -
Rum där män möts: Samkönat begär i Knut Hamsuns "Hemmelig ve"
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-09)I artikeln analyseras Knut Hamsuns novell ”Hemmelig ve” (1897) ur queer-perspektiv. Artikeln argumenterar för att Hamsuns novell skildrar ett samkönat erotiskt begär mellan berättaren och den man som betecknas som ”den främmande”. Den främmande förstås som berättarens dubbelgångare, och i egenskap av dubbelgångare representerar han berättarens förbjudna begär. Denna tolkning tar som utgångspunkt en ... -
Truth is dead; long live the truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-09)Pietroski successfully dismantles the idea of a formal semantic theory based on direct truth conditions and offers new and formally constrained alternatives. In this paper, I summarize the arguments but also provide a number of test cases to show that refusing to accept Pietroski's conclusions condemns the field to constantly restating and technically evading its own self‐created paradoxes. In the ... -
The Ontological Status of Sound Recording: An Artistic Blend between Documentation and Sonic Aesthetics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper discusses how different ways of defining the ontological status of recorded sound have developed throughout the 20th century. My claim is that even within the period of analog technology, sound recording was moving away from its purposes of preserving and documenting real life musical performances. I will illustrate this by using three different examples. First, I will look at how John ... -
Losing access to the second language and its effect on executive function development in childhood: The case of'returnees'
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-31)This study examined how relative language proficiency and exposure influence the development of executive function (EF) in 7–12 year-old bilingual ‘returnee’ children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who were immersed in an environment where their second language (L2; English) was the majority societal language and returned to their native language (L1; Japanese) environment after the ... -
The syntax and semantics of degree expressions in Spanish
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-07)This article provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of degree in Spanish, eventually suggesting that degree structure should be viewed as equivalent to aspect in the verbal domain. §1 introduces several of the themes that will be discussed in the article, while §2 introduces the semantics of degree. §3 discusses the basic syntactic properties of degree, particularly with adjectives. §4 ... -
Constructions, their families and their neighborhoods: the case of durak durakom ‘a fool times two’
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-20)On the basis of data from the Russian National Corpus, we analyze the mean- ings and structure of the syntactic construction observed in phrases like durak durakom ‘fool-nom.sg fool-ins.sg’, which we term the ‘NOM∼INS construction’. We argue that the construction constitutes a network of three closely related subcategories, which we refer to as ‘Extreme’, ‘Paragon’ and ‘Discourse Change’. It is ... -
“A new image of man”: Harun Farocki and cinema as chiro-praxis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-29)In Harun Farocki’s lifelong study of the mute language of manual expressions, the human hand is explored not only as a versatile tool, but as a repository of social memory, a topos in the genealogy of the moving image, and a critical agent in the theory and practice of filmmaking itself. While cinema distinguished itself from previous artistic media through its capacity to salvage and store everyday ...