Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production
Source: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 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 Sortlan...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/10728 2023-05-15T18:34:37+02:00 Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production Lundquist, Bjørn Rodina, Yulia Sekerina, Irina Westergaard, Marit 2016-10-04 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10728 https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 eng eng variation De Gruyter. Linguistics Vanguard Linguistics Vanguard Norges forskningsråd: 223265 FRIDAID 1405360 doi:10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 2199-174X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10728 openAccess VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 Psycholinguistics Variation grammatical gender language change Northern Norwegian dialects Visual World paradigm PsychLingVar Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2016 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 2021-06-25T17:55:08Z Source: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Sortland ENVELOPE(13.595,13.595,68.245,68.245) Tromsø Linguistics Vanguard 2 s1 |
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Source: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026 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. |
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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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