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    • Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis 

      Zhao, Chen; Serratrice, Ludovica; Lieven, Elena; Steele, Circle; Malik, Nivedita; An, Yi; Hayden, Emily; Cameron-Faulkner, Thea; Neumegen, Jo (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 

      Prystauka, Yanina; Hao, Jiuzhou; Cabrera Perez, Reinaldo; Rothman, Jason (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. 

      Castor, Laura Virginia (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 

      Johansen, Åse Mette; Sollid, Hilde (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 

      Falke, Cassandra Marie (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-03)
    • Taleteknologi og kunstig intelligens 

      Kvale, Knut; Gulla, Jon Atle; Adde, Line; Solberg, Per Erik; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Moshagen, Sjur Nørstebø (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 

      Deluca, Vincent Francesco (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 

      Nesset, Tore; Makarova, Anastasia (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 

      Minor, Serge; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (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? 

      Feleke, Tekabe Legesse (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 

      Niemi, Minna Johanna (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? 

      Toth, Mate; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Vårheim, Andreas; Johnston, Jamie; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood (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. 

      Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Kosutar, Sara (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 

      Nesset, Tore; Sokolova, Svetlana; Björklund, Martina (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 

      Johnston, Jamie; Mierzecka, Anna; Tóth, Máté; Paul, Magdalena; Kisilowska-Szurmińska, Małgorzata; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Vårheim, Andreas; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Jochumsen, Henrik; Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Casper; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Olson, Anna; Skare, Roswitha; Mathiasson, Mia (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 

      Sandstedt, Jade Jørgen Michael; Kubota, Maki; Anderssen, Merete Brendeford; Darby, Jeannique; Helset, Stig Jarle; Tavakoli, Elaheh; Vangsnes, Øystein Alexander; Rothman, Jason (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 

      Laméris, Tim Joris; Kubota, Maki; Kupisch, Tanja; Cabrelli, Jennifer; Snape, Neal; Rothman, Jason (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 

      Wesierska, Marta; Serratrice, Ludovica; Cieplinska, Vanessa; Messenger, Katherine (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 

      Hržica, Gordana; Kosutar, Sara; Poropat Jeletić, Nada (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 

      Tapia, José Luis; Aras, Luis Miguel; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (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 ...