Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på emneord "Language acquisition"
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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 ... -
Learning Technical Vocabulary: A Study Exploring Approaches and Material to Support Learning L2 Vocabulary in Norwegian Upper Secondary Schools
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of the study was to shed light on how a technical vocabulary is best learned with vocational pupils in upper secondary school. Two approaches, implicit and explicit, were chosen and lesson plans were made for a ... -
Phonological Awareness in Young Bilingual Dyslexics in Malaysia
(Master thesis, 2018)Research on dyslexia in Malaysia is still lacking. As a result, the general understanding of dyslexia is relatively low among teachers and parents who are not equipped with the necessary skills to provide assistance for ... -
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 ...