Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Journals "Journal of Child Language"
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Acquisition of locative utterances in Norwegian: structure-building via lexical learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar ... -
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Norwegian embedded clauses give children two options for subject placement: preceding or following negation (S-Neg/Neg-S). In the adult language, S-Neg is the ‘default’ and highly frequent option, and Neg-S is infrequent ... -
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We investigate German–Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, ...