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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 ... -
Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025-09-12)This study investigates bilectal grammatical representation and processing using three ERP reading experiments in two Norwegian dialect regions. Northern Norwegian bilectals were tested in two separate sessions in two written varieties: the local written standard (Bokmål, n = 83) and Northern Norwegian dialect writing (n = 68). The study included both non-contrastive gender (control) and dialect-specific ... -
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-14)Few studies have examined global foreign accent (GFA) in bilingual children, and little is known about how GFA changes over time and what factors determine change. Here, we examine GFA trajectories in Japanese–English bilingual returnees (Japanese children who returned to Japan after having lived in a majority English environment for several years). In two accent-rating tasks, first language ... -
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish-English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-26)A key question in the study of language representation in bilinguals is whether knowledge is shared across languages. Crosslinguistic syntactic priming has been widely used to test bilingual adults’ shared representations, but studies with child bilinguals are few and have several limitations. We addressed these limitations in two studies with Polish–English bilingual children aged 5–11 years ... -
The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-29)A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments for measuring language proficiency have been demonstrated in previous studies across different languages. However, the relationship between self-assessment and the two measures has not yet been investigated. ... -
Enhancing Executive Functions in Pediatric Epilepsy: Feasibility and Efficacy of a Computerized Cognitive Training Program
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-18)Epilepsy, a prevalent neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures, significantly impacts individuals’ neurobiological, cognitive, and social lives. This report presents a feasibility study investigating the effects of a computerized cognitive training program on enhancing executive functions, particularly inhibitory control, in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Employing a ... -
Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-14)This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian. To this end, 54 adult HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed a self-paced reading task (SPRT) and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT). Markedness was manipulated by probing agreement with ... -
What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye- and mouse-tracking study in German
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-12)Previous research on real-time sentence processing in German has shown that listeners use the morphological marking of accusative case on a sentence-initial noun phrase to not only interpret the current argument as the object and patient, but also to predict a plausible agent. So far, less is known about the use of case marking to predict the semantic role of upcoming arguments after the subject/agent ... -
Family Attitudes towards Multilingualism in Bilingual Education Programs and Their Relationship with Academic Performance
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-21)This article reports on a large-scale study investigating the overall perception of multilingualism in the family environment of children enrolled in an English immersion program in primary schools across Spain and the potential relationship between these attitudes and the student’s academic performance. One thousand and one families participated in the study, based on a tailored questionnaire ... -
On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-26)Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted public health and our lifestyles, leading to new social adaptations such as quarantine, social distancing, and facial masks. Face masks, covering extended facial zones, hamper our ability to extract relevant socio-emotional information from others’ faces. In this fMRI study, we investigated how face masks interfere with facial emotion recognition, ... -
Солдат. Бойовий посібник для військовослужбовця
(2024)<p>Ця книга розроблена для боротьби з росією, що має чисельну перевагу. Описані тут методи довели свою ефективність у бою, зокрема в обороні України. Щоби перевершити ворога, військовослужбовцю та його підрозділу необхідно постійно тренуватися та розвиватися і в особистому, і в колективному вимірі. <p>Книга насамперед містить інструкції та поради щодо поведінки військовослужбовця на полі бою ... -
Orientation towards the vernacular and style-shifting as language behaviours in speech of first-generation Polish migrant communities speaking Norwegian in Norway
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-14)This study describes the patterns of dialect use among L3 Norwegian speakers born in Poland who have migrated to Norway. We collected the data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews recorded in Tromsø and Oslo, two different dialect regions, in order to examine potential differences in acquisition of two dissimilar dialects in Norwegian by L3 speakers. The analyses focus on dialectal and accentual ... -
Brain Correlates of Attentional Load Processing Reflect Degree of Bilingual Engagement: Evidence from EEG
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-13)The present study uses electroencephalography (EEG) with an N-back task (0-, 1-, and 2-back) to investigate if and how individual bilingual experiences modulate brain activity and cognitive processes. The N-back is an especially appropriate task given recent proposals situating bilingual effects on neurocognition within the broader attentional control system (Bialystok and Craik, 2022). Beyond its ... -
Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice: Expanding the Framework
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-23)In this paper, we build on an earlier operationalization of Aarseth and Calleja’s cybermedia model for an interdisciplinary evaluation of games as potential tools and objects for teaching and learning. Here, we critically develop the model and original template, and expand its four dimensions with two additional layers. We then use the expanded framework on concrete examples to illustrate how the ... -
Expanding structures while reducing mappings: Morphosyntactic complexity in agglutinating heritage languages
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-25)Research on heritage language grammars to date provides overwhelming support for the general stability of their syntactic systems, while the status of their morphology can vary considerably. In this chapter we offer remarks on the morphological complexity of agglutinating heritage languages, taking a closer look at a number of phenomena in Labrador Inuttitut, Cherokee, and American Hungarian. Four ... -
Verb placement in embedded clauses in heritage Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-26)Purpose: This study examines embedded clauses with adverb/negation in heritage speakers of Norwegian in North America. We ask (a) whether the production of these structures is different from the baseline, (b) how the production is different, and (c) why it is different.<p> <p>Methodology: 50second to fifth-generation speakers from the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS) are compared with ...