This study examines the extent to which extra-linguistic factors such as language dominance, order of acquisition and language of instruction are deterministic for multilingual transfer selection and subsequent development. We test two groups of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals acquiring English as an L3 in a controlled setting. We first examine judgements and interpretations of negative quantifiers and ...

Historically, libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) have been perceived as institutions providing infrastructure for an open and enlightened public discourse. While Norwegian public libraries are regulated by law that focuses on libraries being providers of knowledge and agents of popular enlightenment as well as local meeting places and arenas for debate,¹ the Norwegian museum sector is governed by ...

In this paper we look at prominence in diphthongs and argue that diphthongs are structured in the same way metrical feet are. We propose a set of OT constraints that generates a typology of micro-feet. These are either iambic or trochaic or they are quality/sonority-sensitive with default to iamb or trochee in case of sonority plateaus (i.e., <i>ui</i> and <i>iu</i>). Crucially, we did not find any ...

This article examines the tension between two modes of listening presented in <i>Frankenstein</i>. Characters sometimes receive others’ stories as a confidant responsible to the storyteller and sometimes as a judge responsible to a predetermined ethical norm. Drawing on the ideas of Emmanuel Lévinas, the article shows how these two forms of listening correspond to two ethical models – the ethics ...

We present a new open-access electronic resource named the Russian Constructicon that offers a searchable database of Russian constructions accompanied by descriptions of their properties and illustrated with corpus examples. The project was carried out over the period 2016-2020 and at present contains an inventory of over 2200 multi-word constructions of Contemporary Standard Russian. We prioritize ...

Photographic recordings from the 1950s–1970s give us glimpses into the Soviet settlements on Svalbard during the Cold War period. The majority of these pictures have been taken by Norwegians during friendly exchanges with the inhabitants in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, and demonstrate how important culture and sport were as a contact zone. These pictures also testify that the Soviets invested more ...

In this paper, we consider elicited production data (real and nonce words tasks) from five different studies on the acquisition of grammatical gender in Heritage Russian, comparing children growing up in Germany, Israel, Norway, Latvia, and the United Kingdom. The children grow up in diverse heritage language backgrounds, ranging from small groups (in Norway) to large communities (in Latvia). ...

Henrik Steffens’ erste wissenschaftliche Buchpublikation, Udkast til en Lærebog i Botaniken (1794), war die Übersetzung eines botanischen Klassikers des ausgehenden 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, Carl Ludwig Willdenows Grundriss der Kräuterkunde (1792). Der vorliegende Beitrag arbeitet anhand dieser bislang wenig beachteten Übersetzung Steffens’ Position als Naturwissenschaftler im Übergang von ...

ABM-utviklings kortvarige eksistens fortoner seg som en sammenhengende reorganiseringsprosess, skriver forfatterene i denne artikkelen om ABM-utviklings vekst og fall». Artikkelen er en popularisert versjon av den vitenskapelige artikkelen «ABM-utvikling og avvikling: Institusjonell konvergens og divergens i kulturpolitikken.» (Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift, 2019, 22, 02)