Gender Change in Norwegian Dialects: Comprehension is affected before Production

• Published in: Linguistics Vanguard
• Main Authors: Lundquist, Bjørn, Rodina, Yulia, Sekerina, Irina, Westergaard, Marit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: variation 2016
• Subjects: VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010; Psycholinguistics; Variation; grammatical gender; language change; Northern Norwegian dialects; Visual World paradigm; PsychLingVar; Sortland; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10728; https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0026

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...