Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på emneord "English linguistics"
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Attributive Adjective Ordering: A Comparison of Akan And English
(Master thesis, 2018)When multiple adjectival modifiers occur in the English Noun phrase, speakers of the language have an intuitive idea of how they are to be sequenced. Linguists such as Hetzron (1978), Dixon (1982), Scott (2002), Sproat and ... -
Investigating potential L3 cognate facilitation effects on L2 - A study of Spanish-English cognates in L1 speakers of Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)This study investigates the potential cognate facilitation effect from a third language (L3) onto a second language (L2). More specifically, it investigates whether L3 Spanish participants have a cognate facilitation effect ... -
Lexical organization in bilinguals and L2 learners - A study of lexical access and cognate representation
(Master thesis, 2018)The current study investigates how bilinguals and second language learners’ mental lexicons are organized. Studying how learners access their mental lexicon provides information on how cognates (words with similar or ... -
Making Sense of Language Shift in 19th Century Scotland: Politics, Education and Migration
(Master thesis, 2018)This master`s thesis uses the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act as a focal point to discuss the role of direct political actions in language shift in Scotland. Scholars have not discussed the influence of political actions in ... -
The Critical Role of Language in Theory of Mind Development - Viewed through the Lens of Autism and Parallel Deficits across Other Atypical Populations
(Master thesis, 2018)Theory of mind (ToM) is a vitally important area for study not only within psycholinguistics but also across neuroscience and other diverse fields, because of its implications for the study of social cognition, and the ... -
The On-Line Processing of Epistemic Modal Verbs During Language Comprehension - An ERP Study
(Master thesis, 2018)Epistemic modal verbs enable the speaker to express attitudes about the factuality of a proposition: they signal a specific degree of likelihood that the proposition in their scope is true, as evaluated by the speaker. In ... -
The Online Processing of Norwegian Intensional Verbs - An ERP Study
(Master thesis, 2018)The properties of language that allow us the freedom of stepping outside the world of facts into an almost infinite number of possible worlds, where things are how they could be, how they should be and how we hope and ... -
The TV-series Sherlock subtitled into Norwegian - The case of politeness
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis investigates the shifts in politeness that occur when the English dialogue in Sherlock (2010) is translated into Norwegian subtitles. Previous research has shown that because reductions and omissions are necessary ...