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  • Sarin, Megha; Garraffa, Maria (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Background Due to the increase bilingual population in the UK, it is imperative that reading materials are made accessible for them in and out of school. This study begins by reviewing literature on bilinguals reading ...
  • Gudmundsen, Jenny (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This study analyzes how second language and first language speakers of Norwegian recruit assistance with linguistic items in a video-mediated setting by engaging the chat function. Using the method longitudinal conversation ...
  • Johannessen, Janne Bondi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Several works have focused on case in coordination, such as Munn (1994), Johannessen (1994, 1997, 1998), Quinn (2005), and Parrot (2009, 2010). The literature shows that it is not the case that all conjuncts have the same ...
  • Jaspers, Jürgen; Van Hoof, Sarah (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings ...
  • Brennan, Sara; Costa, James (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    In this paper, we question the apparent contradiction between the stated desire of the Scottish and Irish governments to promote local minority languages and the marginalization of these languages in the national celebrations ...
  • Males, Mikael (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    This article argues that the short textual fragment today called the Fifth Grammatical Treatise (below 5GT) represents a kind of hybrid within Icelandic poetics, occupying a middle ground between the nativizing treatises, ...
  • Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Southwood, Frenette (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    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: ...
  • Köder, Franziska; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    In this paper we investigate children's processing and comprehension of metonymy, a type of figurative use of language where an object or individual is referred to via a salient property (e.g., The beard used to refer to ...
  • White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative ...
  • Purkarthofer, Judith (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Child language development occurs in a given environment, complete with explicit and implicit regulations, intervening actors with their coherent or contradictory intentions, and specific resources for speakers. The main ...
  • Larsson, Ida (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    All the Scandinavian languages have overt non-referential subjects in e.g. impersonal or existential constructions and with weather-verbs like rain. It is, however, well known that the properties of the non-referential ...
  • Hennig, Reinhard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
  • Furuseth, Sissel; Gjelsvik, Anne; Gürata, Ahmet; Hennig, Reinhard; Leyda, Julia; Ritson, Katie (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Environmental and climatic change has become a frequent motif in contemporary Norwegian literature, television and film, and Norway has the worldwide first organization of writers committed to climate action (The Norwegian ...
  • Lind, Marianne; Sønsterud, Hilda (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    The present study applies conversation analysis in order to describe the form and function of co-constructed turns in conversations involving one or more persons who stutter. Coconstructed turns are turns at talk that are ...
  • Jørgensen, Jon Gunnar (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    This article examines the prevailing honour code in two Old Norse sagas, namely one saga about early Icelanders, the saga of Gisle Sursson, Gisla saga Súrssonar and one dealing with events from a late medieval society, the ...
  • Svennevig, Jan; Hansen, Pernille; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
    The study investigates code-switching by multilingual persons with dementia in two different speech contexts, picture naming tests and spontaneous conversation. It combines a psycholinguistic perspective on cognitive and ...
  • Laine, Matti; Lehtonen, Minna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    The present short review discusses reasons for the mixed results on the possible enhancement of cognition, especially executive function, in bilingualism. We define three major problem areas that hamper many studies in ...
  • Killmer, Helene; Beeke, Suzanne; Svennevig, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    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 ...
  • Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Smolander, Anna; Strömbergsson, Sofia; Ylinen, Sari; Lehtonen, Minna; Kurimo, Mikko; Getman, Yaroslav; Grósz, Tamás; Cao, Xinwei; Svendsen, Torbjørn Karl; Salvi, Giampiero (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    This paper reports on the experience collecting a number of corpora of Nordic languages spoken by children. The aim of the data collection is providing annotated data to develop and evaluate computer assisted pronunciation ...
  • Næss, Åshild; Alfarano, Valentina; Boerger, BH; Vaa, Anders (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This paper describes and compares comitative constructions across the Reefs–Santa Cruz languages Äiwoo, Engdewu, Nalögo, and Natügu. Each of these languages shows a complex array of constructions, with considerable variation ...