Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production
file embargo until 01.10.2018 This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the Tromsø (N=46) and Sortland (N=54) dialects parti...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2434795 2023-05-15T18:34:36+02:00 Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production Lundquist, Bjørn Rodina, Yulia Sekerina, Irina Westergaard, Marit 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2434795 https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 eng eng De Gruyter Norges forskningsråd: 223265 Linguistics Vanguard. 2016, 2 (1), 69-83. urn:issn:2199-174X http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2434795 https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 cristin:1405360 69-83 2 Linguistics Vanguard 1 Journal article Peer reviewed 2016 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 2019-09-17T06:52:12Z file embargo until 01.10.2018 This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the Tromsø (N=46) and Sortland (N=54) dialects participated in a Visual Word experiment. The task examined whether they used indefinite articles (en, ei, et) predictively to identify nouns during spoken-word recognition, and whether they produced feminine articles in an elicited production task. Results show that all speakers used the neuter indefinite article et as a predictive cue, but no speakers used the feminine ei predictively, regardless of whether they produced it or not. The masculine article en was used predictively only by the speakers who did not produce feminine gender forms. We hypothesize that in dialects where the feminine gender is disappearing, this change in the gender system affects comprehension first, even before speakers stop producing the feminine indefinite article. Copyright © Walter de Gruyter Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Sortland ENVELOPE(13.595,13.595,68.245,68.245) Tromsø Linguistics Vanguard 2 s1 |
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file embargo until 01.10.2018 This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine gender agreement is in the process of disappearing in some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers of the Tromsø (N=46) and Sortland (N=54) dialects participated in a Visual Word experiment. The task examined whether they used indefinite articles (en, ei, et) predictively to identify nouns during spoken-word recognition, and whether they produced feminine articles in an elicited production task. Results show that all speakers used the neuter indefinite article et as a predictive cue, but no speakers used the feminine ei predictively, regardless of whether they produced it or not. The masculine article en was used predictively only by the speakers who did not produce feminine gender forms. We hypothesize that in dialects where the feminine gender is disappearing, this change in the gender system affects comprehension first, even before speakers stop producing the feminine indefinite article. Copyright © Walter de Gruyter |
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Lundquist, Bjørn Rodina, Yulia Sekerina, Irina Westergaard, Marit Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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Lundquist, Bjørn Rodina, Yulia Sekerina, Irina Westergaard, Marit |
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Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production |
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gender change in norwegian dialects: comprehension is affected before production |
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