In this article, I examine the dialect forms of a set of North Saami pronouns – mo, do, so, da (‘I, you, he/she, it’; standardized forms: mon, don, son, dan). More specifically, I investigate where the forms are in use and how the forms have developed. The material shows that the final -n has changed in a number of stages before it disappeared completely. I suggest that these pronominal forms are ...

We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7-month-old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previously present in the exposure phase. This work became the foundation for the theoretical framework by which we assume that infants are able to learn abstract representations ...

Este artículo presenta una propuesta sobre cómo integrar sintácticamente el género en español. La propuesta es que la mezcla de propiedades derivativas y flexivas que exhibe el género español se debe a que los exponentes relevantes (-o y -a) materializan una secuencia de núcleos que se dividen en dos áreas diferenciadas, una referida a la clasificación de entidades (clasificadores nominales) y ...

The different distinctions related to lexical aspect –state, activity, accomplishments and achievements– play an important role in the grammar of Spanish, but many of the details about how these distinctions can be implemented are unclear: which features distinguish between the classes, how the classes relate to each other, what is the nature of telicity or dynamicity and how one can account for the ...

Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one’s attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals (n = 25) and Dutch controls (n = 27) ...

On 27 June 2020, the prominent feminist poet Galina Rymbu published the poem «Моя вагина» (“My Vagina”) on her Facebook feed. «Моя вагина» is a solidarity poem, written in support of artist and LGBTQ activist Iuliia Tsvetkova, who is facing a charge of distributing pornography for her abstract paintings of vaginas in a group on the social media platform VKontakte. Rymbu’s poem created huge resonance: ...

Hvem bebor et landskap? Artikkelen undersøker forholdet mellom dyreliv og menneskeliv i Vesterålen-forfatteren Regine Normanns debutroman Krabvaag(1905). Ved at dyrelivet i så stor grad inkluderes, fremstår fiskeværet ikke bare som menneskenes hjem. Krabvaaghar gjerne vært plassert i heimstaddiktningen. Termen har av mange vært regnet for å være begrensende, men med dagens interesse for økologiske ...

This short article offers an introduction to Poljarnyj Vestnik’s special issue on Svalbard Studies.

Long-term management of more than one language has been argued to contribute to changes in brain and cognition. This has been particularly well documented in older age, where bilingualism has been linked to protective effects against neurocognitive decline. Since memory difficulties are key aspects of this decline, herein we examine potential effects of bilingualism on the hippocampus, a brain ...

This article deals with the group-based behavioral, cognitive, and skill-training intervention program Maltti as a special educational support action applied with outdoor adventure education at the primary school level. The need to apply the group-based intervention arose from the special education teachers’ (N=2) desire to reinforce and expand their pedagogical methods in order to improve the ...