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Strong Finals: A prosodic feature projecting ‘more to come’ in a Danish urban dialect Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Ditte Zachariassen
This article presents structural and interactional aspects of Strong Finals, a prosodic feature characterised by lengthening, increased volume, and non-falling intonation on word-final syllables. Interactionally, Strong Finals support five types of action: listing, projecting a description, stating conditions, asking questions, and announcing reported speech. In general, Strong Finals project that
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Argument structure constructions in competition: The Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat alternation in Icelandic Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Joren Somers, Gard B. Jenset, Jóhanna Barðdal
Alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in Icelandic are notorious for instantiating two diametrically opposed argument structures: the Dat-Nom and the Nom-Dat construction. We conduct a systematic study of the relevant verbs to uncover the factors steering the alternation. This involves a comparison of 15 verbs, five alternating ones, and as a control, five Nom-Dat verbs and five non-alternating Dat-Nom
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The Gutnish si-passive Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Erik M. Petzell
The Gutnish-specific si-passive combines be or become with a participle, directly followed by the element si. Unlike regular periphrastic passives, si-passives focus on the process rather than the result, opening up the construction for unergatives, which are unattested in the regular type. However, si-passives are quite limited when it comes to the subject. Internal arguments can only become subjects
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Enhanced coarticulatory labialization of /ts/ in Argentine Danish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jan Heegård Petersen
This paper presents an acoustic study of coarticulation of Argentine Danish /ts/ using Centre of Gravity (CoG) as the acoustic measure. It shows that the articulation of /ts/ is affected by the roundedness of the following vowel, and that this is more prevalent among speakers of Argentine Danish than among speakers of Modern Danish as spoken in Denmark. The analysis also shows that within Argentine
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Building languages: Estonian–English two-year-old bilingual’s reliance on patterns in code-mixed utterances Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Piret Baird
This paper examines patterns in an Estonian–English bilingual child’s spontaneous speech, employing a computational application of the traceback method, which is used in usage-based linguistics. Forty-five hours of data were analyzed to check what proportion of patterns from code-mixed utterances are attested in the child’s monolingual data and in her input. Pattern overlap between the child’s and
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V2 violations in different variants of Icelandic: A common denominator? Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Ásgrímur Angantýsson, Iris Edda Nowenstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson
In this article, we report on a number of violations of (or exceptions to) the so-called V2 constraint in different variants of Icelandic. The main purpose is to investigate what these violations can tell us about the nature of the V2 constraint, its vulnerability, the limits of syntax, and about children’s ability to sort out what is relevant and what is not in the input they hear during the acquisition
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På, i, for, or til: A comparative analysis of prepositions in the writing of L1 and L2 Danish users Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Line Burholt Kristensen, Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen
This corpus study compares the use of Danish prepositions in the writing of L1 users of Danish to that of L2 users of Danish (with English as their L1). It examines to what extent non-standard usage is a specific L2 phenomenon and to what degree the challenges with prepositions are shared between the L1 and L2 group. We analyze the distribution and characteristics of non-standard usage involving four
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Letters to the Paulaharjus from Ruija: The emergence of two writing cultures in Finnish among Kvens in the early twentieth century Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Daniel Haataja, Leena Niiranen
Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruija – in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with his wife Jenny he collected ethnographic material among the Kvens, and corresponded frequently with some of them. Many wrote in Finnish, and most were self-taught writers. We focus on the orthography used by these writers who were writing in a multilingual environment
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Computational analysis of Finnish nonfinite clauses Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Pauli Brattico
Finnish nonfinite clauses constitute a complex grammatical class with a seemingly chaotic mix of verbal and nominal properties. Thirteen nonfinite constructions, their selection, control, thematic role assignment, nonfinite agreement, embedded subjects, and syntactic status were targeted for analysis. An analysis is proposed which derives their syntactic and semantic properties by relying on a computational
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The Russian origin of Karelian cow names Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Henna Massinen
This article provides an overview of the Russian origin of Karelian cow names. It explores what the Russian-origin names mean, what the most common principles of naming are, and whether Russian names have Karelian equivalents. Attention is also paid to the spatial and temporal variation of the names. The data were collected in the 2010s by means of interviews. The data are compared with the name data
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OKAY as a content word: Regulating language and constructing centres of norms in Finnish, Finland-Swedish, and Sweden-Swedish academic writing consultation meetings Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Sofie Henricson, Anne Mäntynen, Marie Nelson, Marjo Savijärvi
The focus of this article is on OKAY as a resource for regulating language and constructing norm centres in authentic consultation meetings related to academic writing and recorded in Finland and Sweden. It gives an overview of all occurrences of OKAY in the interactional data in question, revealing that the word occurs frequently in academic writing consultations in Finnish, Finland Swedish, and Sweden
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Tver’ Karelian as a new dialect Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Vesa Koivisto
In the article, the development of the Tver’ Karelian dialect is discussed. This new dialect has emerged from a mix of regional dialects of Karelian immigrants from the seventeenth century onwards. Characteristics of a new dialect in Tver’ Karelian are examined on the basis of demographic data and linguistic descriptions. In addition, the unity and internal variation of Tver’ Karelian as well as its
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Stability in the integrated bilingual grammar: Tense exponency in North American Norwegian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 David Natvig, Michael T. Putnam, Alexander K. Lykke
Decades of research on bilingual grammars corroborate the integrated nature of these systems, leading to the conjecture that these representations are ‘shared’ (Marian & Spivey 2003, Kroll & Gollan 2014, Putnam et al. 2018). A specific population of bilinguals, namely heritage language speakers, shows a tendency for highly variable allomorphy (Polinsky 2018, Putnam et al. 2021); however, with this
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Diversification in time and space and how it is perceived: Applying a folk linguistic listening task with Tver’ Karelians Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Marjatta Palander, Helka Riionheimo
In this article we apply a folk linguistic listening task to examine how the Tver’ Karelians in Russia recognise a sample of their own dialect and a sample of Border Karelian (spoken in Finland), both recorded about 60 years ago. Tver’ Karelian and Border Karelian have a shared origin in Proto-Karelian but have been diverging from each other since the seventeenth century; the former has had strong
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Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using a supervised machine-learning model Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Ilmari Ivaska, Mirva Johnson, Tommi Kurki
This study presents results of two experiments using supervised machine-learning models to examine individual Finnish speakers’ dialectal backgrounds. Data come from interviews conducted with heritage speakers of Finnish in northern Wisconsin and are compared to data from the Finnish Dialect Syntax Archive. The models were constructed and then, following successful validation testing, used to identify
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Diminutivizing L-reduplication in Norwegian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Henrik Torgersen
This paper gives a broad overview of how Norwegian productively makes use of L-reduplication to convey diminutive meaning. I argue that this previously undescribed phenomenon is a diminutivizing process that copies the stressed vowel and any consonants until the next morpheme boundary. The construction can be attested as far back as the start of the 20th century and its realization varies geographically
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Analyzing the unrestricted web: The finnish corpus of online registers Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Valtteri Skantsi, Veronika Laippala
This article introduces the Finnish Corpus of Online Registers (FinCORE) representing the full range of registers – situationally defined text varieties such as news and blogs – on the Finnish Internet. The extreme range of language use found online has challenged the study of registers. It has been unclear what registers the entire Internet includes, and if they can be sufficiently defined to allow
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Thoughts on the etymologies of enn and hinn in Nordic Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Eric T. Lander
This contribution focuses on Stroh-Wollin’s (2020 in NJL) etymologies of the Nordic definite articles enn and hinn and contrastive hinn/hitt. While I do not contest her central claim that Old Icelandic enn and Mainland Scandinavian hinn have separate historical origins, I do argue that her etymologies should not be accepted over more conventional ones already present in the literature. First, the etymology
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Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Piia Taremaa, Johanna Kiik, Leena Karin Toots, Ann Veismann
Focusing on the expression of manner and path in the ‘frog story’ narrations of Estonian native speakers, this study shows that Estonian – a morphologically rich satellite-framed Finno-Ugric language – is characterised by high manner and high path salience. Furthermore, when analysing one of the core qualities of manner – speed – we show that when the participants were asked to narrate a story as if
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The phonological status of Swedish au and eu: Proposals, evidence, evaluation Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Stig Eliasson
Most modern studies of Swedish phonology take the view that the underlying vowel inventory of Central Standard Swedish comprises nine, rather than seventeen or eighteen, mutually contrasting vowel phonemes. A residual problem of a classic phonological type concerns the borrowed entities, rendered in traditional Swedish orthography as au and eu, whose ‘status in the vowel system is unclear’ (Riad 2014:42)
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The use of the indefinite pronoun keegi ‘someone’ in Estonian dialects Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Hanna Pook, Liina Lindström
The Estonian indefinite pronouns keegi ‘someone’ and miski ‘something’ are distinguished by being able to refer to animate or inanimate entities, respectively. However, in certain Estonian dialects, keegi is used to refer to inanimate entities as well. The aim of this paper is to describe the functions and use of keegi based on the data in the Corpus of Estonian Dialects. We used statistical analyses
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Three quarters of a century of phonetic research on common Danish stød Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Nina Grønnum
Despite many attempts, we do not yet know how to answer the question exhaustively and adequately: What is common Danish stød phonetically? Specifically, is there an underlying physiological constancy behind the considerable acoustic variability? And is there a common denominator to the different acoustic manifestations that might explain their perceptual equivalence? Systematic acoustic, physiological
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Accounting for different rates of gender reanalysis among Icelandic masculine forms in plural -ur Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Jón Símon Markússon
This paper presents a usage-based cognitive approach to the different rates at which Icelandic masculine forms in nominative/accusative plural -ur are reanalysed as feminine. Of the 14.92% of nouns in plural -ur, 91.89% are feminine, others masculine. Syncretism in nominative/accusative plural is exceptionless among feminines, but relatively rare among masculines. Interestingly, plurals such as masculine
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Easy and plain languages as special cases of linguistic tailoring and standard language varieties Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Leealaura Leskelä, Arto Mustajoki, Aino Piehl
This article aims to introduce new insights to further the understanding of easy language (EL) and plain language (PL) as examples of tailored language and place them within a broader context of linguistic varieties. We examine EL and PL in relation to standard language, and we consider the degree of conscious effort required in tailoring and the compliance with the codified norms of standard language
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Control in a Norwegian grammar maze Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Tori Larsen, Christer Johansson
Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a priming study on non-finite Control constructions in Norwegian (Larsen & Johansson, 2020) and contrast them with their finite counterparts using interference effects in a grammatical maze (G-maze) design. We asked
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Bringing order to chaos: Research on Easy Swedish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Solveig Arle, Carina Frondén
Despite the early establishment of Easy Language in Sweden in the 1960s and a growing interest in producing Easy Language materials, linguistic research on Easy Swedish remains scarce. This literature review aims to describe how Easy Swedish has been understood in previous research, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Applying a meta-narrative method, we investigate terms
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Assessing the effects of Language for all Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Enid Reichrath, Xavier Moonen
Language for all is a method developed in the Netherlands for providing information in such a way that as many intended readers as possible both comprehend and accept this information. Readers include people with a large variety of reading abilities including people with low literacy skills. Language for all can be characterized as a more accessible variant of plain language with some characteristics
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ETR German within the system of language variation Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Mathilde Hennig
The paper discusses whether easy-to-read (ETR) German can be classified as a ‘variety’ and/or a ‘register’. It appears to be very difficult to capture the variational status of ETR German within the system of language variation due to its rather artificial, rule-based character. On the other hand, the question of whether the notion of variety or register, or any other notion modelling language variation
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Making a difference – ausbau processes in Modern Written Finnish and Kven: How a group of loanwords marks a divergence between the Kven language and Modern Written Finnish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Leena Niiranen
Ausbau processes increase differences between two close written language varieties. Finnish and Kven are considered two ausbau languages today, in contrast to an earlier view which considered Kven to be a dialect of Finnish. In this article, ausbau processes are illustrated by comparing the use of eera verbs, a group constituting international and Scandinavian loanwords in the two languages. Most eera
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Passive with control and raising in mainland Scandinavian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Elisabet Engdahl
This article gives an overview of the use of non-local passives in mainland Scandinavian, i.e. passives where the subject of the first verb is a thematic argument of a second verb. Three factors are important: whether V1 is a control verb or a raising passive, whether V2 is a passive participle or an infinitive and whether the passive is morphological or periphrastic. Danish and Norwegian allow passive
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Faroese children’s first words Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Sissal M. Rasmussen
Research has shown the importance of vocabulary development in relation to other parts of language development, e.g. grammar and reading development. Cross-linguistic research has shown similar as well as dissimilar tendencies regarding content in different languages. This study examines, for the first time, the characteristics of Faroese children’s early productive vocabulary utilizing a Faroese adaptation
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Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Kari Kinn, Ida Larsson
This paper discusses pronominal demonstratives (PDs) in homeland and heritage (American) Norwegian and Swedish. We establish a baseline approximating the language of the early emigrants, based on 19th/20th century Norwegian dialect recordings and Swedish texts. Baseline Norwegian had a fully established PD expressing psychological distance (see Johannessen 2008a). In Swedish, however, PDs do not quite
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Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions – Corrigendum Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Nicole Dehé,Daniela Wochner
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Language diversification in the Nordic languages Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Marjatta Palander,Maria Kok,Helka Riionheimo,Milla Uusitupa
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Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Nicole Dehé, Daniela Wochner
In this paper, we show that Icelandic uses the phonetic parameters of speaking rate, duration and voice quality (VQ) to distinguish between information-seeking questions (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs). Specifically, durations are longer (speaking rate is slower) and nonmodal VQs are used more in RQs than in ISQs. Our findings for temporal parameters fit in with previous studies on the prosody
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Errors or identity markers? A survey study on the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Janine A.E. Strandberg, Charlotte Gooskens, Anja Schüppert
This study examines the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish. Finlandisms are words or structures typical of the Swedish variety spoken in Finland, while fennicisms are a category of finlandisms for which the source language is Finnish. Fennicisms are often discussed in context of Finnish influence and consequent Finland Swedish language loss, suggesting that the
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The development of linguistic stimuli for the Swedish Situated Phoneme test Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Erik Witte, Jonas Ekeroot, Susanne Köbler
The speech perception ability of people with hearing loss can be efficiently measured using phonemic-level scoring. We aimed to develop linguistic stimuli suitable for a closed-set phonemic discrimination test in the Swedish language called the Situated Phoneme (SiP) test. The SiP test stimuli that we developed consisted of real monosyllabic words with minimal phonemic contrast, realised by phonetically
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Forced alignment for Nordic languages: Rapidly constructing a high-quality prototype Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Nathan J. Young, Michael McGarrah
We propose a rapid adaptation of FAVE-Align to the Nordic languages, and we offer our own adaptation to Swedish as a template. This study is motivated by the fact that researchers of lesser-studied languages often neither have sufficient speech material nor sufficient time to train a forced aligner. Faced with a similar problem, we made a limited number of surface changes to FAVE-Align so that it –
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Spanish contact influence in a Finnish heritage community in Misiones, Argentina Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Eeva Sippola
This study examines contact outcomes in Finnish spoken in a heritage community in Misiones province, Argentina, in the 1970s. The data show limited morphosyntactic differences from dialectal varieties of Finnish, and most of the Spanish influence is lexical loans or sporadic codeswitches that have an emphatic function. The results show that beyond established lexical loans, both fluent and less fluent
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Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Christian Schoning, Jørn Helder, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan
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Meta-morphomic patterns in North Germanic Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Hans-Olav Enger
The paper presents examples of meta-morphomes (a kind of morphomic patterns, involving syncretisms) in North Germanic. There has been some debate over the notion of such patterns, and the aim is therefore to present relatively clear cases. Five cases are presented, involving inflection in verbs, nouns and adjectives. The syncretisms are all ‘unnatural’; they do not make much sense for syntax, semantics
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Concerning variation in encoding spatial motion: Evidence from Finnish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Emilia Tuuri
This article describes variation in the use of frames of reference (FoRs; object-centred, viewpoint-centred, and geocentric, as in Holistic Spatial Semantics) in Finnish descriptions of motion and connects questions of variation to a typological framework. Recent research has described the choice of FoRs as a process with multiple factors. This complexity and controlling for the main variables posited
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Singapore Teochew as a heritage language Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Cher Leng Lee, Chiew Pheng Phua
Situated in Southeast Asia, Singapore’s sociolinguistic situation has undergone several changes due to active language planning policies, with English and Mandarin becoming the two socio-politically majority languages in Singapore society. Over time, this has led to the restricted usage of various non-Mandarin dialects, including Teochew, both in public settings and within the home. This paper examines
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Prepositional phrases and case in North American (heritage) Icelandic Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Nicole Dehé, Tanja Kupisch
The paper investigates the use of PPs, specifically prepositions and the case marking on their DP arguments, in moribund North American (heritage) Icelandic (NAmIce), using data from a map task experiment. Since prepositional phrases combine semantic properties with morpho-syntactic properties, PPs allow us to investigate the relative vulnerability of both domains at once. Our results show that while
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Normative ratings for 111 Swedish nouns and corresponding picture stimuli Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Tomas Lehecka
Normative ratings are a means to control for the effects of confounding variables in psycholinguistic experiments. This paper introduces a new dataset of normative ratings for Swedish encompassing 111 concrete nouns and the corresponding picture stimuli in the MultiPic database (Duñabeitia et al. 2017). The norms for name agreement, category typicality, age of acquisition and subjective frequency were
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Converbs in heritage Turkish: A contrastive approach Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Kateryna Iefremenko, Christoph Schroeder, Jaklin Kornfilt
Turkish expresses adverbial subordination predominantly by means of converb clauses. These are headed by nonfinite verbs, i.e. converbs, which have a converb suffix attached to the stem. The different converbs express different aspectual relations between the subordinate and the superordinate clause, and they can be modifying or non-modifying. We analyse data from speakers of Turkish as a heritage
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Introduction to the special issue on Heritage languages & Bilingualism Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Yvonne van Baal,David Natvig
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to heritage languages and bilingualism. Heritage languages are naturalistically acquired languages, but not the dominant language in the broader society (Rothman 2009:156) and over the last two decades, there has been a growth in research to languages in this specific bilingual setting (see Montrul 2016, Polinsky 2018 for overviews)
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Indexing that something is sufficient: Interactional functions of ingressive particles in Finnish and Danish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Jakob Steensig, Auli Hakulinen, Tine Larsen
Sounds spoken on the inbreath have been shown to be common in the world’s languages, and in the Nordic languages ingressive speech seems to be especially frequent. The present study focuses on Finnish and Danish response particles spoken on the inbreath, by examining their uses in everyday talk-in-interaction in corpora of recorded interactions. The particles we examine and their non-ingressive counterparts
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Split possession and definiteness marking in American Norwegian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Kari Kinn
This article discusses definiteness marking in two possessive constructions that exhibit special patterns (split possession) for certain kinship nouns in Norwegian. It is shown that the special patterns, whereby the relevant nouns appear without a definite suffix, are retained by the majority speakers of American Norwegian (AmNo); some AmNo speakers use them even more extensively than homeland speakers
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The role of loanwords in the intelligibility of written Danish among Swedes Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Charlotte Gooskens, Sebastian Kürschner, Vincent J. van Heuven
We investigated the intelligibility of written Danish for Swedes, and in particular the role of inherited words compared to non-Germanic loanwords. To assess whether shared loanwords are easier to understand than inherited words, we conducted two experiments. First, we tested the intelligibility of isolated Danish words (inherited words and loanwords) among Swedes. Second, we constructed two versions
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Mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface: The case of non-finite complementation in American Norwegian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Michael T. Putnam, Åshild Søfteland
Non-finite complementation strategies found in American Norwegian (AmNo) (made available by the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS)) reveal unique and diverging patterns when compared to both standard and dialectal Norwegian and English. We argue in this paper that the majority of these divergent structures are the result of overextension (Rinke & Flores, 2014; Rinke et al., 2018; Putnam & Hoffman
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Online activation of L1 Danish orthography enhances spoken word recognition of Swedish Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Anja Schüppert, Johannes C. Ziegler, Holger Juul, Charlotte Gooskens
It has been reported that speakers of Danish understand more Swedish than vice versa. One reason for this asymmetry might be that spoken Swedish is closer to written Danish than vice versa. We hypothesise that literate speakers of Danish use their orthographic knowledge of Danish to decode spoken Swedish. To test this hypothesis, first-language (L1) Danish speakers were confronted with spoken Swedish
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The effect of givenness and referring expression on dative alternation in Norwegian: A reaction time study Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Marta Velnić, Merete Anderssen
This study investigates how givenness and pronominality affect the dative alternation in Norwegian. Previous studies have found givenness to influence the Double Object Dative (DOD) but not the Prepositional Dative (PD). Thirty-one Norwegian native speakers completed a speeded acceptability judgment task, in which given objects were expressed by definite DPs or pronouns, and either preceded or followed
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Voicing patterns in stops among heritage speakers of Western Armenian in Lebanon and the US Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Niamh E. Kelly, Lara Keshishian
Research on Western Armenian (WA) has described it as having a contrast between voiceless aspirated stops and voiced stops (Fairbanks 1948; Vaux 1998; Baronian 2017). Since there is no monolingual community of WA, all speakers are part of a minority language community, and also speak the majority language. The current study examines speakers from two heritage communities of WA: one in Lebanon, where
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Finnish inserted vowels: a case of phonologized excrescence Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Robin Karlin
In this paper, I examine a case of vowel insertion found in Savo and Pohjanmaa dialects of Finnish that is typically called “epenthesis”, but which demonstrates characteristics of both phonetic excrescence and phonological epenthesis. Based on a phonological analysis paired with an acoustic corpus study, I argue that Finnish vowel insertion is the mixed result of phonetic excrescence and the phonologization
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Grammatical gender in L2 Swedish in Finnish-speaking immersion students: A comparison with non-immersion students Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Eeva-Liisa Nyqvist, Sinikka Lahtinen
Swedish grammatical gender is challenging for Finnish-speaking learners of Swedish due to its abstract meaning, the complex nature of Swedish NPs and the low salience of the morphology used to mark gender. Our study compares the expression of gender in texts written in Swedish by Finnish-speaking 12- and 15-year-old immersion students with that of 16-year-old non-immersion students. The results show
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Marking one’s own viewpoint: The Finnish evidential verb+kseni ‘as far as I understand’ construction Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Minna Jaakola
This article examines evidentiality in the frame of inferential adverbs in written interaction from the perspective of Finnish, a language that does not have evidentiality as a grammatical category. The analysis focuses on six adverbs, such as käsittääkseni ‘as far as I understand’ and tietääkseni ‘to my knowledge, as far as I know’. Evidentiality and epistemic modality intertwine in their semantics
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Variation in adjunct islands: The case of Norwegian Nordic Journal of Linguistics (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Ingrid Bondevik, Dave Kush, Terje Lohndal
Finite adjunct clauses are often assumed to be among the strongest islands for filler–gap dependency creation cross-linguistically, but Kush, Lohndal & Sprouse (2019) found experimental evidence suggesting that finite conditional om-adjunct clauses are not islands for topicalization in Norwegian. To investigate the generality of these findings, we ran three acceptability judgment experiments testing