Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Journals "Frontiers in Psychology"
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Acceptable Ungrammatical Sentences, Unacceptable Grammatical Sentences, and the Role of the Cognitive Parser
(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 ... -
Acquisition of a Transparent Gender System: A Comparison of Italian and Croatian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Gender transparency is considered a key facilitator for early acquisition of this category. Here, we compare the acquisition of the gender system of two transparent systems, Italian and Croatian. The study focuses on the ... -
As naturalistic as it gets: Subtitles in the English classroom in Norway
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Bilinguals’ sensitivity to grammatical gender cues in Russian: the role of cumulative input, proficiency, and dominance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper reports on an experimental study investigating the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian by heritage speakers living in Norway. The participants are 54 Norwegian-Russian bilingual children (4;0-10;2) as ... -
Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Human learning, although highly flexible and efficient, is constrained in ways that facilitate or impede the acquisition of certain systems of information. Some such constraints, active during infancy and childhood, have ... -
Editorial: The Grammar of Multilingualism
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Formal semantics in the neurology clinic: Atypical understanding of aspectual coercion in ALS patients
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of the motor system with subtle adverse effects on cognition. It is still unclear whether ALS also affects language and semantics, and if so, what aspects ... -
Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The well-documented gesture-language relation in typical communicative development (TD) remains understudied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research on early communication skills shows that gesture production is a ... -
Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the ... -
Internal and External Factors in Heritage Language Acquisition: Evidence from Heritage Russian in Israel, Germany, Norway, Latvia and the UK
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)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, ... -
Is Beauty in the Hand of the Writer? Influences of Aesthetic Preferences through Script Directions, Cultural, and Neurological Factors: A Literature Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Human experience surrounding the appreciation of beauty is not static. Many factors such as script direction and cultural differences directly impact whether, how and why we consider images beautiful. In an earlier study, ... -
Language as description, indication, and depiction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (Parmentier, 1994; Clark, 1996; Johnston, 1996; Kendon, 2004). Varied ... -
The Living Transcendental - An Integrationist View of Naturalized Phenomenology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article I take on the “Transcendentalist Challenge” to naturalized phenomenology, highlighting how the ontological and methodological commitments of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy point in the direction of an integration ... -
Naturalistic acquisition in an early language classroom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This study investigated whether it is possible to provide naturalistic second language acquisition (SLA) of vocabulary for young learners in a classroom situation without resorting to a classical immersion approach. ... -
On the directionality of cross-linguistic effects in bidialectal bilingualism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explores the interpretation of null and overt object pronouns by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) bidialectal bilinguals. Object pronouns are a particularly good domain to examine, given ... -
Shrinking your deictic system: How far can you go?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use. Given this cross-linguistic variation in deictic ... -
Sub- and supralexical information in early phases of lexical access
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The present study investigated sub- and supralexical effects in morphological processing for inflected and pseudo complex words and pseudo words in lexical decision with masked and cross-modal priming. The results showed ... -
The time-course of sentence meaning composition: N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically-stored affordances
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Contemporary semantic theories can be classified along two dimensions: (i) the way and time-course in which contextual factors influence sentence truth-conditions; and (ii) whether and to what extent comprehension involves ... -
Units of Language Mixing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Language mixing is a ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing bilingual speakers. A frequent context where two languages are mixed is the word-internal level, demonstrating how tightly integrated the two grammars are in the ... -
What influences language impairment in bilingual aphasia? A meta-analytic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Patterns of language impairment in multilingual speakers with post-stroke aphasia are diverse: in some cases the language deficits are parallel, that is, all languages are impaired relatively equally, whereas in other cases ...