Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Lundquist, Bjørn"
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The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English
Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit; Lundquist, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the experiment presented here, the predictions ... -
Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language
Anderssen, Merete; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study investigates possessives and modified definite DPs in a corpus of heritage Norwegian spoken in the US. Both constructions involve variation in Norwegian – two word orders for possessives (pre- and postnominal) ... -
Dynamikken i en språkendringsprosess: Bortfall av hunkjønnsformer i norsk
Lundquist, Bjørn; Klassen, Rachel; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Det finnes betydelig regional og sosiolingvistisk variasjon i genusssystemet inorsk, hovedsakelig når det gjelder hunkjønnskategorien. Mange morsmåls-talere av norsk har et robust tregenussystem (hankjønn, hunkjønn og ... -
Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production
Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia; Sekerina, Irina; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the ... -
L1 Grammatical Gender Variation through the Representation in the Lexicon
Klassen, Rachel; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In most studies on gender processing, native speakers of the same language are treated as a homogeneous group. The current study investigates to what extent an ongoing change in the gender system of Norwegian (a development ... -
The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift
Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article reports on a syntactic acceptability judgement study of 59 adult L2/Ln learners of Norwegian and a group of native controls, studying subject and object shift. These constructions involve movement of (mainly) ... -
Variable V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: An effect of crosslinguistic influence?
Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje; Lundquist, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper discusses possible attrition of verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language by investigating a corpus of spontaneous speech produced by 50 2nd–4th generation heritage speakers in North America. ... -
Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language
Lundquist, Bjørn; Anderssen, Merete; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper investigates spontaneous production from 50 speakers of Norwegian heritage language in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech and studies the interplay between four linguistic properties: possessives and double ...