Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Leivada, Evelina"
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Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A search for the terms “acceptability judgment tasks” and “language” and “grammaticality judgment tasks” and “language” produces results which report findings that are based on the exact same elicitation technique. Although ... -
Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse
Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning
Mitrofanova, Natalia; Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit Kristine Richardsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that ... -
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on cognition: (How) should we proceed?
Leivada, Evelina; Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Westergaard, Marit; Rothman, Jason (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged. One might ponder if there is enough evidence ... -
On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni; Rothman, Jason (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions. Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged. One might ponder if there is enough evidence ... -
Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired. Evidence from multiple adjectives
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background. Linguists and psychologists have explained the remarkable similarities in the orderings of linguistic elements across languages by suggesting that our inborn ability for language makes available certain innately ...