Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that segment words and phrases, highlight focal ...

This article explores heteropian, utopian and dystopian places in Erlend O. Nødtvedt’s 2017 novel, Vestlandet, in order to better understand how the author uses references to regional historical and contemporary figures ...

Abstract Older children with online schooling requirements, unsurprisingly, were reported to have increased screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in many countries. Here, we ask whether younger children with no ...

In this article the authors discuss Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) with Henrik Ibsen’s En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People; 1882) as a test case for formulating a better theoretical understanding of adaptations that are ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access ...

Migrants from Senegal constitute a small minority in Norway, which complicates their possibilities of carrying out certain linguistic and cultural practices face-to-face. However, with increased access to digital means, ...

I oslomålet held suffikset -a i bestemt form eintal seg som eit siste spor etter femininum, medan dei eigentlege eksponentane for genus femininum elles er borte (unnateke pronomen). Det finst parallellar i andre norske ...

I denne artikkelen presenteres en empirisk studie av grammatisk kjønn og bøyningsklasse hos 47 andrespråksinnlærere av norsk i talespråkskorpuset NorInt Tale. Målet er å undersøke i hvilken grad innlærerne har grammatisk ...

Abstract Inflection classes that have many members often gain members from classes that have fewer. While this tendency is often pointed out in diachronic linguistics, the American psycholinguist Charles Yang (2016) ...

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway, operated largely through in-person teaching, with minimal use of digital platforms. While online teaching did not change the multilingual ...

Det siste tiåret har det blitt forska mykje på grammatisk kjønn i Noreg, både på korleis barn lærer det og korleis det grammatiske kjønnssystemet er i endring. Basert på korpusdata ser Rodina & Westergaard (2013) på korleis ...

Abstract: Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the ...

Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We address this issue in a systematic and ...

This article examines the affective dimension of the linguistic repertoire of multilingual families. Specifically, resulting from a three-year ethnographic project in Norway, this study sets out to better understand the ...

The growing number of elderly multilingual speakers suffering from strokes and aphasia requires a change in the services of speech and language pathologists (SLPs), who will be serving culturally and linguistically diverse ...

Abstract In L’archéologie du savoir (1969), Foucault specifies the method of discourse analysis as the identification of statements. Few digital humanities projects have set out to conduct discourse analysis in ...

Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as used in conversations in French and Norwegian by 10 migrants from the Democratic ...

We investigated Finnish primary school teachers’ understandings of processes of language learning, their reported linguistically responsive practices, their reported professional learning needs, and the links between these. ...

Bærekraft i skolens tekstkulturer handler om hvordan bærekraft og miljø tematiseres i grunnskolens tekster. Studien plasserer seg innenfor en språk- og tekstorientert skriveforskningstradisjon. Den inngår videre i en ...

The primary means for psychotherapy interaction is language. Since talk-in-interaction is accomplished and rendered interpretable by the systematic use of linguistic resources, this study focuses on one of the central ...

Research on non-native pronoun resolution has predominantly been concerned with (i) ‘ordinary’ 3rd person pronouns/anaphors like En. "he", "she", "they" or "himself", "herself", "themselves", (ii) language pairs involving ...

Opplysningsmennene Peter Frederik Suhm og Jens Schielderup Sneedorff nådde på begynnelsen av 1760-tallet bredt ut i tvillingrikene Danmark-Norge med hvert sitt tidsskrift: Tronhiemske Samlinger basert i Trondheim og Den ...

The present study explores the viability of using tablets in assessing early word comprehension by means of a two‐alternative forced‐choice task. Forty‐nine 18–20‐month‐old Norwegian toddlers performed a touch‐based word ...

This paper examines grammatical gender from the sociolinguistic perspective. The question pursued is to what extent exponents of grammatical gender are tied indexically to identity categories. Building on literature and ...

In consecutively interpreted conversations, long multi-unit turns pose an interactional problem, as the interpreter may need to intervene into the turn space of the current speaker to interpret. This paper explores multimodal ...

One significant contribution of generative linguistics has been to our understanding of 'movement,' which occurs when a word is linearized in a position different from where it is interpreted. Even though movement often ...

The Royal Prayerbook (British Library MS Royal 2.A.XX) contains several related prayers for staunching a flow of blood. One of these entries contains several portions of Greek text written in Greek characters. This paper ...

“Structured heterogeneity”, a founding concept of variationist sociolinguistics, puts focus on the ordered social differentiation in language. We extend the notion of structured heterogeneity to formal phonological structure, ...

Abstract Multi-accent environments offer rich but inconsistent language input, as words are produced differently across accents. The current study examined, in two experiments, whether multi-accent variability affects ...

The present study investigated the acquisition of verb movement in L3 French by L1 speakers of Norwegian with English as their L2. To investigate the impact of previously learned languages in L3 acquisition, we looked at ...

I denne artikkelen diskuteres Tone Hødnebøs (1963–) debutsamling Larm (1989) som en refleksjon over naturbeherskelse og forholdet mellom det menneskelige og det animalske. Jeg ser nærmere på et utvalg nøkkeldikt, og tar ...

The Royal Prayerbook contains a variety of entries aimed at staunching a flow of blood, three of which are related by a shared poetic motif. An examination of the elements in these texts suggests that all three are a ...

Among the syntactic changes that can be observed in the transition from Old Norwegian to Modern Norwegian are the following word order changes: loss of OV order, object shift from a VP containing a verb (non-finite verb ...

With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families’ language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and maintenance for their children. Working ...

Denne artikkelen rapporterer om ein studie av geografiske og demografiske trekk ved 46 etterstilte uttrykk i norske talemål, mellom anna gitt, sant og kan du skjønne. I fyrste del av studien er spørjeskjema nytta som metode. ...

In order to understand most, if not any communicative act, the listener needs to make inferences about what the speaker intends to convey. This perspective-taking process is especially challenging in the case of nonliteral ...

In this paper, we address the larger notion of cooperation in interaction and its underlying dimensions as defined in Conversation Analysis: alignment and affiliation. Focusing on three cases from three different languages ...

The paper investigates directives addressed to tower crane operators by a construction worker. By examining grammatical variation in connection with load relocation tasks, the study shows how the design and the sequential ...

This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within ...

This conversation analytic study investigates how couples manage conflicting knowledge claims when one of the persons has dementia (PWD). The data are video-recordings of 16 couples talking with a third party. The analysis ...

In this paper, we investigate a prosodic-phonetic feature in child-directed speech within a dynamic, complex, interactive theoretical framework. We focus on vocalic intrusions, commonly occurring in Norwegian word initial ...

Sound patterns in heritage languages are often highly variable, potentially with influences from majority languages. Yet, the core phonological system of the heritage language tends to remain stable. This article considers ...

The substantial uptick in research on heritage languages over the past three decades has enhanced our understanding of the development of bilingual grammars throughout the lifespan. This interest has been accompanied by a ...

The current study examines the role of action-depicting gestures in conversational turns by focusing on their semantic characteristics and temporal position in relation to their verbal affiliates (action verbs or more ...

Med utgangspunkt i en komparativ analyse av Carl Frode Tillers Begynnelser (2017) og Henrik Nor-Hansens En kort evaluering av psykososialt stress (2014) argumenterer forfatteren for behovet for en petroteoretisk oppdatering ...

Background and Aims Previous studies have shown that age of acquisition affects language production in persons with aphasia (PWA), specifically, earlier-acquired words are better preserved compared to later-learned ones ...

While top-down policies have yet to establish equality for speakers of minoritized languages, activists and advocates at local levels play a significant role in the pursuit of social change. Through an ethnographic account ...

This study investigates how Finnish teachers regard immigrant families’ home language policies. Of the teachers who responded, 53.3% believed it best for parents to speak their first languages at home, and 31.7% believed ...

Abstract The current publication system neither incentivizes publishing null results nor direct replication attempts, which biases the scientific record toward novel findings that appear to support presented ...

This article analyzes the first fully verifiable Ibsen performance in the history of Chinese theatre—Nala (Nora) in Beijing in 1923—by a group of female students from the famous Beijing Nüzi Gaodeng Shifan Xuexiao (Peking ...

Abstract The loss of inflectional categories is often thought of as a type of simplification. In this paper we present a survey of phenomena involving the reduction of adjective agreement in Scandinavian, using examples ...

Introduction: This study explores practices employed by a person with aphasia (PWA) and his wife to organize collaborative storytelling in a multiparty interaction. We identify practices that further the PWA’s agency – his ...

A myriad of emotion perception studies has shown infants’ ability to discriminate different emotional categories, yet there has been little investigation of infants’ perception of cultural differences in emotions. Hence ...

I denne artikkelen diskuterer vi ulike aspekter ved bruk av flervalgstest som metode i ordforrådsstudier med fokus på innlærere av norsk. Vi tar utgangspunkt i fire studier der denne metoden er brukt for å undersøke ...

Rammeplan for barnehagens innhold og oppgaver (Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2017) fordrer at barnehagene støtter flerspråklige barns utvikling av både hjemmespråket og norsk eller samisk. Dette krever at barnehagelærere har ...

NORINT1-korpuset (Universitetet i Oslo, 2020) er et forholdsvis nytt innlærerkorpus utviklet ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier (ILN) ved Universitetet i Oslo (UiO). NORINT-korpuset inneholder muntlig og ...

Proficiency in a language is strongly related to how well and how many words one knows. Vocabulary knowledge correlates with reading comprehension and general communication ability. Due to the increasing amount of research ...

This paper describes the function and distribution of the main morphological markers of voice and valency in the Oceanic language Äiwoo: the undergoervoice suffixes -i, -nyi(i), -ive, -eâ, and -nâ, and the circumstantial ...

Andrespråksforskning er et komplekst forskningsområde, siden mange faktorer spiller inn i prosessen med å lære et nytt språk. Noen av faktorene kan ikke uten videre måles. Særlig vanskelig er det å måle subjektive faktorer, ...

This paper investigates quantificational variability effects (QVE) with adverbs of quantity, focusing on German größtenteils and the QV-interpretations that arise with arguments of the main verb. I propose that these ...

Abstract Raising a child is a challenging venture, regardless of where one lives in the world. Most children are raised in their families; however, many states have welfare services if the child’s well-being is at stake. ...

The study of narrative has fascinated scholars in different areas of the social sciences, including linguistics, psychology, history, and sociology. Narrative opens a window into identities, ways of life, moral systems, ...

Auraicept na nÉces appropriates Latinate grammatical concepts to vernacular language and is the earliest preserved text from the medieval West to do so. It enhances the Babel narrative to strengthen the status of Irish and ...

Tove Jansson’s Picturebook Who Will Comfort Toffle? as a Heroic Poem
 This article offers an analysis of Tove Jansson’s picturebook Vem ska trösta knyttet? (Who Will Comfort Toffle?) from 1960 as a heroic poem and ...

Studiar av genusendring i norsk har jamt over brukt mykje plass på inventaret i kategorien «ubestemt artikkel», som fleire stader viser teikn til å skrøkke frå tre til to typar. I dei fleste samanhengar vert dei tre typane ...

Dette kapittelet viser hvordan kollegaveiledning i gruppe har potensial til å bidra til endring og læring i en organisasjon. Vi eksemplifiserer dette med et prosjekt ved Det humanistiske fakultet (HF, UiO) i perioden ...

Background: Recent reviews conclude that aphasia intervention is effective. However, replication and implementation require detailed reporting of intervention is and a specification of participant profiles. To date, reviews ...

Artikkelen drøfter graffiti med runer og bokstaver i norske middelalderkirker og ser skrifttype og språk som to variabler for risteres selvuttrykk. Som eksempel brukes innskrifter fra Hopperstad og Borgund stavkirker. ...

We discuss the role of enhanced Universal Dependencies (E-UD) in the task of deriving semantic predicate-argument structures from UD treebanks in a universal, non-language-specific way. We consider the usefulness of three ...

I denne artikkelen analyserer jeg Aimée Sommerfelts Miriam (1950) og undersøker hvordan fortellingen om den norske holocaust formidles i denne boken. I analysen redegjør jeg for hvordan avslutningen av andreutgaven av boken ...

In 1966 the US Supreme Court ruled that custodial suspects should be advised of their rights, including the right to silence and the right to an attorney, before questioning begins. If they waive their rights and the defense ...

Drawing on a series of studies that looked at students’ interpretations of linguistic landscapes (LL) in Israel, the chapter focuses on the move from awareness to engagement in LL pedagogical work. Encouraging students to ...

Prediction is an important mechanism for efficient language processing. It has been shown that as a part of sentence processing, both children and adults predict nouns based on semantically constraining verbs. Language ...

Denne artikkelen dokumenterer antisemittiske holdninger blant norske forfattere fra Ludvig Holberg og Aasmund Olavsson Vinje til Amalie Skram, Arne Garborg, Nils Kjær, Rolf Jacobsen og Alf Larsen. Forfatterne formidler ...

In this chapter, we discuss insights gathered from developing comparable language versions of child language assessment tools in different geographic, linguistic and sociocultural contexts. We use two tools as case studies: ...

Denne artikkelen granskar sambandet mellom trykkplassering i latinske lånord (som butikk) og partikkelverb (som gå ut), der trykkplasseringa på fyrstestavinga eller sistestavinga varierer. Med di partikkelverb har ein del ...

Artikkelen presenterer en økokritisk lesning av Henrik Ibsens Vildanden, hvor stykket forstås som en refleksjon over det moderne menneskets objektiverende syn på sin omverden. Idet symbolet erstattes av synekdoken som ...

How are processes of language policy formation carried out? Besides, how does one negotiate competing discourses in a policy process to ensure its legitimacy? Such questions sparked the interest for this study, which ...

Abstract In order to understand the process of learning new languages as adults, we need to take into account learners’ past experiences with all of their language(s), as such experiences shape attitudes and conceptualizations. ...

In this article I investigate to what extent the use of metaphorical expressions in language learners’ texts vary according to the topic they have chosen to write about. The data come from the Norwegian learner corpus ASK, ...

This article addresses the contribution of the foreign language theatre companies’ performances to Ibsen’s emergence in Romania until the middle of the twentieth century. The Romanian map of Ibsen performances demands a ...

Contributing to debates on the functions of English in the public space, we explore in this chapter the ways in which what is nominally referred to as ‘English’ is deployed in a range of contexts in two settings, one from ...

Artikkelen undersøker bruken av verbene VÆRE og BLI sammen med predikatene født, konfirmert og gift i norsk talt i Amerika sammenlignet med norsk talt i Norge. Datamaterialet er hentet fra korpusene CANS og LIA norsk. ...

Da den feirede amerikanske dikteren Robert Lowell inkorporerte brev fra sin ekskone i en omdiskutert lyrikksamling fra 1973, ble teknikken hans beskrevet som kannibalistisk appropriering. Og da en samling av brev mellom ...

This special issue explores the use of metaphor in education from a multilingual perspective in two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden. In this introduction, we include a brief overview of earlier research in the ...

This paper investigates family multilingualism in a polymedia perspective, presenting results from a study of transnational communication among four families with Senegalese background, living in Norway. Ethnographic ...

Kapittelet presenterer en lesning av Jan Grues bok Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres. En levnetsbeskrivelse (2018), som legger vekt på helsesårbarhet og belyser verkets avanserte diskusjoner av sammenhengene mellom sårbarhet, ...

The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The ...

Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over etnografiske forskningsmetoder med relevans for andrespråkslæring i og utenfor klasserommet. Etnografiske metoder kan belyse mange spørsmål om andrespråkslæring, enten som overordnet ...