Bilingualism has been argued to have an impact on cognition and brain structure. Effects have been reported across the lifespan: from healthy children to ageing adults, including clinical (ageing) populations. It has been argued that active bilingualism may significantly contribute to the delaying of the expression of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. If bilingualism plays an ameliorative role against ...

We investigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Our findings challenge the common classification of nasals as intermediate between obstruents and liquids on the sonority hierarchy. Instead, we propose that there are two types of nasal consonants, one group with lower sonority than liquids and one with higher sonority. We propose that these two types ...

The six articles in this special issue are exemplary studies that profile the current state-of-the art in cognitive linguistics, namely the synthesis of quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis. This introduction is an opportunity to take stock of where cognitive linguistics started out, what kinds of approaches have been developed,andhowwehavearrivedatasynthesisinwhichempiricalexploration ...

På midten av 1800-tallet var Alten Copper Works, ei koppergruve i nærheten av Alta, Nord-Norges og Nordkalottens største industribedrift. Bedriften rekrutterte gruvearbeidere fra ulike deler av Norden og Europa, og etter hvert utgjorde kvenske innvandrere fra Nord-Sverige og -Finland en stor del av arbeidskraften. Artikkelen undersøker mangfoldet blant verkets arbeidere fra et sosiolingvistisk ...

Standpunktkarakterene i nynorskkommuner på Vestlandet viser en mindre gunstig utvikling i perioden mellom 2009 og 2018 enn i bokmålskommunene i samme region. Artikkelen drøfter mulige årsaker, herunder endringer i medienes språk, der nynorsk i stor grad har blitt fortrengt av bokmål og dialekter, en utvikling som er aller tydeligst i nye digitale medier.

En este trabajo exploramos dos construcciones asociadas a lecturas distributivas en las que se emplea la preposición <i>a</i>, la estructura <i>N a N</i> (<i>gota a gota, uno a uno...</i>) y la estructura <i>a D N</i> (<i>al día, a la semana, al kilómetro...</i>). Este uso distributivo de <i>a</i> es en principio inesperado, ya que, frente a la preposición <i>por</i>, no suele dar lugar por sí misma ...

The scientific method is a process of conjecture (hypothesis generation), prediction and subsequent testing in an effort to gain greater understanding. By its very nature, then, it is a process where, much more often than not, theoretical contributions are destined to be wrong. Somewhat ironically, though, being wrong is essentially the goal. By initially assuming our theory – or the one(s) we are ...

It is commonly accepted that bilinguals access lexical representations from their two languages during language comprehension, even when they operate in a single language context. Language detection mechanisms are, thus, hypothesized to operate after the stage of lexical access during visual word recognition. However, recent studies showed reduced cross-language activation when sub-lexical properties ...

Slavic studies in Norway have been shaped by specific facts that facilitated the development of the field, described in Section 1. Section 2 approaches the current state of our field in Norway from the perspectives of language teach- ing, linguistics, literature and culture, as well as publication venues and spe- cial resources for Slavists. I conclude in Section 3 with comments on current trends ...