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Looks at what isn't there: eye movements on a blank screen when processing negation in a first and a second language
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-10)Is negation more difficult to process than affirmation? If it is, does processing negation in a second language (L2) compound the difficulty compared to the first language (L1)? This article addresses the issues of difficulties in processing different types of negation in the L1 and L2 by looking at the differences in the ways in which comprehenders anticipate upcoming visual information during ... -
Disease, Corruption, and Contempt for Weakness: Rereading a Doll's House
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-31)The reason why Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) went to the extent of forging her father’s signature in order to take out a large loan was that her husband, Torvald Helmer, was “dangerously ill” (Ibsen 2016, 117, hereafter referred to by page numbers only) and needed a longer stay in the south in order to recover. And he recovers, is “[f]it as a fiddle,” and has no relapses; he “hasn’t ... -
Understanding ‘many’ through the lens of Ukrainian багато
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-17)We reveal an ongoing language change in Ukrainian involving a construction with a sub- ject comprised of the indefinite quantifier багато ‘many’ modifying a noun phrase in the Genitive Plural. Number agreement on the verb varies, allowing both Singular (in 69.1% of attestations) and Plural (in 30.9% of attestations). Based on statistical analysis of corpus data, we investigate the influence of the ... -
Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference in native and foreign languages: evidence from proficient bilinguals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-07)Currently available data show mixed results as to whether the processing of emotional information has the same characteristics in the native (L1) as in the second language (L2) of bilinguals. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to shed light on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying bilinguals’ emotional processing in L1 and L2 during an emotional interference ... -
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-09-23)Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual world eye-tracking experiment, designed to examine the relative use of the two cues, testing Mandarin heritage speakers (HSs) living in an English-speaking environment. Given the importance of understanding individual differences, ... -
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-26)Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the languagelearning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions used in interaction with prelinguistic infants aged ... -
Lexical interference and prediction in sentence processing among Russian heritage speakers: an individual differences approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-04)In line with emerging trends examining sentence processing in heritage language (HL) bilingualism and adopting an individual differences approach, the present study investigated the role of prediction and lexical interference in 68 Russian HL bilinguals in North America. The former was investigated by examining how Russian HL bilinguals processed sentences with semantically constraining verbs, whereas ... -
Review of David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Political Thought. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-31)To be reminded of how contested issues around political sovereignty are in our time, one need only glance at news headlines. Readers expect, in fact, a daily bombardment of updates on war, genocide, and famine on multiple continents, and news of the latest wave of refugee deportation in the US and Europe. At the level of cultural and educational sovereignty, we confront the increasing precarity of ... -
Learning to Reconcile: Entextualisation of a Multilingual Municipality Sign in Educationscapes of Sápmi
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)The sign of the trilingual municipality Gáivuotna – Kåfjord – Kaivuono is one of the most discussed items in the linguistic landscapes of Sápmi and Norway. In 1992, the municipality was included in the Administrative Area for Sámi Language, and monolingual Norwegian road signs were replaced with bilingual ones that also included the North Sámi name. Shortly afterwards, the bilingual signs were ... -
Implicated Readers: Just Storytelling and Violence Against Migrant Women
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Taleteknologi og kunstig intelligens
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2022-12-29)Taleteknologi gjør at maskiner kan forstå hva vi sier og snakke selv. Men teknogigantene og engelsk som språk dominerer utviklingen. Hvordan sikre overlevelsen til norske språk? -
The potential roles of multilingualism and language structural distance in neurocognitive adaptation to language experience
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-24)A growing body of research shows that individual differences in bilingual language experience variably contribute to neurocognitive adaptations. The trends in this work are beginning to show a specificity of adaptations to the nature and degree of bilingual experiences – for example, duration of use, language switching, context and intensity of engagement. However, several other factors likely further ... -
Threatening in Russian with or without sja: Grozit′ vs. grozit′sja
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-26)This article explores the two verbs, grozit′ and grozit′sja, which can both be translated as ‘threaten’. We adopt a “local” approach and offer a thorough analysis of corpus data, which indicates that the two verbs, although they share a number of properties, are semantically and syntactically distinct. We show that the two verbs collocate with different parts of speech and tend to occur in ... -
The Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues for the Processing of Case in Russian by Russian-German Bilinguals: An Eye Tracking Study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-21)Modulation of visual attention in the Visual World Paradigm relies on parallel processing of linguistic and visual information. Previous studies have argued that the human linguistic capacity includes an aspect of anticipation of upcoming material. Such anticipation can be triggered by both lexical and grammatical/morphosyntactic cues. In this study, we investigated the relationship between ... -
Dialect Recognition via Lexical Processing: Is It a Viable Litmus Test?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-21)For decades, linguists have been working to formulate an objective means of distinguishing dialects from languages, but dialect recognition has largely remained a subjective enterprise. Only recently have some studies proposed a processing-based psycholinguistic approach toward dialect recognition. These studies argued that dialect words are stored as a co-dependent representation, not as an independent ... -
Picaros and Shapeshifters: The Postcolonial Picaresque Style in GauZ’s Standing Heavy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-22)I read GauZ’s Standing Heavy in connection with the postcolonial picaresque style, as GauZ’s Ivorian immigrant characters are robust survivors who see through the French system and criticize it through their anti-idealist viewpoints. This cynical view, often disclosed through roguish language, provides the author the possibility of expressing aggression toward the unfair system and highlighting ... -
Librarians, archivists, and museum professionals’ role perceptions and cross sectoral collaboration – Signs of convergence?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-20)Public libraries, archives, and museums have identifiable differences related to their founding missions and play many roles in today’s cultural sector and broader society, yet LAM institutions’ professional activities appear very similar. Moreover, increased digitization of LAM collections allows for increased collaboration and convergence across the institutions, and the merging of L, A, and M ... -
Salvatore Attardo & Lucy Pickering. Eye-tracking in linguistics London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. ISBN 978-1-3501-1751-8. 304 pp.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-10)<i>Eye-tracking in linguistics</i> by Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering provides a comprehensive introduction to this methodology based on capturing eye movements for the purposes of studying human behaviour. Eye-tracking has gained increasing popularity over the past 20-30 years, as a result of fast advances in the technology supporting this method, with increasing accuracy and precision and an ... -
Shortening mechanisms in construction morphology: the Russian spec-N construction
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-02)This study presents an in-depth analysis of Russian stub compounds in spec ‘special’ and their competition with the corresponding full adjective special’nyj ‘special’ fol- lowed by a noun. Couched in Construction Morphology the corpus-based analysis addresses four understudied areas in theoretical and Russian morphology: shortening mechanisms, competition between morphological words and multiword ... -
Public libraries’ role in supporting Ukrainian refugees: A focus on Hungary and Poland
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-07)The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to Europe’s largest displacement of people since World War II, with significant substantial numbers of Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter in neighbouring countries. International research attests to the crucial roles public libraries can play in the reception and integration of refugees. However, diverse professional and geographical contexts ...
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