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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 ... -
Claustrophilia and Exalted Imagination: Fictional Responses to a Pascalian Problem in the Works of Xavier de Maistre and Jan Potocki
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article explores the topics of confinement and claustrophilia in Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage autour de ma chambre (1795) and Expédition nocturne autour de ma chambre (1825), and in Jan Potocki’s Manuscrit trouvé à ... -
Collocational frequency and context effects on idiom processing in advanced L2 speakers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Multiword expressions have attracted attention recently following suggestions that they are acquired chunk-wise by children in the first language, while adults learning a second language may focus more on individual words ... -
Community dance as a democratic dialogue
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article explores the values that bridge democracy and community dance. Policymakers show an interest in promoting democracy, including the very values shared between community dance and democracy. Observing this, we ... -
Comparing first and second language reading: the use of metacognitive strategies among Norwegian university students
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Metacognitive awareness is one of the key predictors of successful reading, in particular for second language and academic reading. This article presents a study that investigated Norwegian university students’ metacognitive ... -
Comparing Island Effects for Different Dependency Types in Norwegian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Recent research suggests that island effects may vary as a function of dependency type, potentially challenging accounts that treat island effects as reflecting uniform constraints on all filler-gap dependency formation. ... -
A comparison of Norwegian and Spanish L1 acquisition of possessive constructions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)In language acquisition studies, there is a recurring debate regarding how to account for non-target-consistent utterances produced by young children. Anderssen and Westergaard (Lingua 120:2569–2588, 2010) study the ... -
Compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious. Here, I reassess ... -
Compound-Internal Language Mixing in American Norwegian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates cases of compounding in the heritage language American Norwegian (AmNo), where elements from Norwegian and English are mixed word-internally, e.g., hoste-candy ‘cough candy’, where the Norwegian ... -
Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Different classes of quantifiers provably require different verification algorithms with different complexity profiles. The algorithm for proportional quantifiers, like ‘most’, is more complex than that for nonproportional ... -
The Concept of 'Halvemål' in Norwegian Linguistics – a Historiographical Account
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper explores the historical background and application of the concept halvemål in Norwegian linguistics, with particular regard to the disciplines of dialectology and onomasiology. The concept occurs in numerous ... -
Conradian Claustrophobia: Gender, Confinement, Emancipation
(Journal article, 2017)This article discusses the ways in which space is gendered in a number of Conrad's fictions, with a particular focus on those spaces experienced as metaphorically or literally claustrophobic and stifling. First two shorter ... -
Coordinating signs and eye gaze in the depiction of directions and spatial scenes by fluent and L2 signers of Norwegian Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The current study investigates the coordination of signs and eye gaze during depictions of directions and spatial scenes by fluent and second language (L2) signers of Norwegian Sign Language. First, findings show that ... -
Creating a Peeping Tom: Pornography and Visuality in Lars Ramslie's Fatso
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Taking Fatso (2003) as an example, this article explores how cultural emphasis on the visual influences the thematics and aesthetics of the contemporary novel. Theories of masculinity and the gaze inform this critical ... -
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Child L3 English: An Empirical Study on Russian-German Heritage Bilinguals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aims and objectives: This empirical study investigates variables affecting crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. We examine whether structural or typological similarity leads to CLI ... -
Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language
(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) ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition of English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning
(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 ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims and Objectives: The main goal of the present study is to investigate effects of crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition by simultaneous bilinguals. We address the following research questions: Do both ...