{"id":518609,"date":"2019-11-12T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castlfish\/?page_id=518609"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:19:33","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castlfish\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

An overview of externally funded projects at CASTLFish. <\/h4>\n

ExSynOp: Experimental approaches to Syntactic Optionality <\/span><\/h4>\n

The project investigates the different dimensions of micro-variation in the word order possibilities for in the Mainland Scandinavian languages. This empirical ground offers a unique opportunity for understanding the factors that underlie rigidity and optionality in grammars: Only by studying the processing and acquisition of variable rules, we may estimate the possible benefits of categorical rules.<\/p>\n

The project employs a novel experimental paradigm for eliciting variable data and combines it with recent developments in language technology allowing for automatic sound-text alignment and acoustic analysis of the Scandinavian languages. The data collected will be used to answer the following four questions:<\/p>\n

(I) Are there processing benefits (or costs) associated with categorical rules? (The psycholinguistic perspective)
\n(II) Is the word order variation a product of the interaction with higher ranked constraints on prosodic well-formedness? (The interface perspective)
\n(III) Is the variation within speakers conditioned by register\/dialect? (The sociolinguistic perspective)
\n(IV) Is the L1 language learner disposed to categorical rules, or do categorical tendencies develop later? (The acquistionist perspective)<\/p>\n

The project will bring new insights to one of the most debated issues in linguistics: To what extent is the grammar of individual languages shaped by the language use of the adults, as conditioned by both language processing or conscious or subconscious choices of register\/style in a given contexts, and to which extent is the it shaped by learning preferences by the L1 language learner, either as stated in terms of general preferences for deterministic meaning-form mapping , or limits on memory and language processing?<\/p>\n

Time period: 2020-2023<\/span>
\nFunding: Research Council of Norway
\nMembers: Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist<\/a> (PI), Eline Visser, Jade J\u00f8rgen Sandstedt<\/a>, Paulina Lyskawa<\/a><\/p>\n

Collaborators: Jennifer Culbertson<\/a> (U of Edinburgh) , Meredith Tamminga<\/a> (UPenn), Gillian Ramchand<\/a> (UIT), Nathan Young<\/a> (Stockholm U), Sverre Stausland Johnsen<\/a> (UiO), Anders N\u00f8klestad<\/a> (UiO)<\/p>\n

MultiLit <\/span><\/h4>\n
The MultiLit project explores several aspects of the Norwegian language situation with a comparative eye to the Frisian language situation in Frysl\u00e2n. The main objective of the project is to investigate the contribution of diverse language internal literacy skills to academic achievement. The project highlights the acquisition of the two written Norwegian standards and the widespread practice of writing “in dialect” among Norwegian children and adolescents. The comparison with Frisian is interesting since  Frisian is less institutionalised than Nynorsk, the lesser used Norwegian language.<\/div>\n
The project will be based in the research group on Reading, Writing and Language Development at the Sogndal campus of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL<\/a>) and led by professor \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes<\/a>. It includes both national partners from different Norwegian institutions and international partners from various Dutch institutions.<\/div>\n
Different working packages will investigate:<\/div>\n
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– Language separation in multilectal and monolectal adolescents (Lundquist)<\/div>\n
– Written norms among multilectal and monolectal adolescents (R\u00f8yneland)<\/div>\n
– Early standard language stimulation in multilectal and monolectal contexts (Bj\u00f8rhusdal), and<\/div>\n
– Developmental effects in multilectal and monolectal adolescents (S\u00f6derlund)<\/div>\n
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Time period: August 2020-2024<\/div>\n
Funding: Research Council of Norway<\/div>\n
Members: \u00d8ystein A. Vangsnes<\/a>, Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist<\/a>, Unn R\u00f8yneland<\/a> (UiO), Eli Bj\u00f8rhusdal <\/a>(HVL), G\u00f6ran S\u00f6derlund<\/a> (HVL) <\/div>\n
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PATH: Preservation and Adaptation in Turkish as Heritage Language<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

PATH examines the degree to which cognitive and external factors play a role in variation and change in Turkish as a heritage language. In order to do so, it closely examines a variety of morpho-phonological, lexical and syntactic properties of a micro-dialect of Turkish as spoken by a community in Drunen, a small town in the North Brabant province of the Netherlands. <\/p>\n

Time period: 2019-2021
\nFunding: Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions
\nPI: Deniz Tat<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Modal Concepts and Compositionality: New Directions in Experimental Semantics<\/span><\/h4>\n

The project is an innovative approach to exploring the meaning of natural language as manifested in cognition. It intends to build up a framework for the semantic composition of modal meaning that goes beyond the description of sentential truth conditions, aiming in addition to distinguish competing semantic descriptions on the basis of psychological evidence.<\/p>\n

Full project description here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Project page here<\/a><\/p>\n

Time period: 2018-2021
\nFunding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grant
\nMembers: Gillian Ramchand<\/a><\/span>, Sergey Minor<\/span><\/a>, Myrte Vos<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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SALT: Syllable Structure: Acquisition, Loss, Typology <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The project<\/a> intends to investigate the role of sonority, the sonority hierarchy and the sonority sequencing principle in the internal organization of syllables. <\/p>\n

We aim to investigate these theoretical issues and  develop a theory with a better empirical foundation. Furthermore, we intend to create a database of the syllable phonotactics of 500 languages and to conduct research on children acquiring a language with complex syllable structure and a large consonant inventory as well as on subjects who lost competence in such a language to some degree, as in aphasia.  The results as well as the data to be obtained in this project will be made publicly available to further scientific discussion of methodologies and development of theoretical models.
\nThe results of this project will have practical repercussions for the wider population in the development of new diagnostic tests and therapies for language impairment based on the collected data and the theoretical insights gained in this project.<\/p>\n

Time period: 2017-2020
\nFunding: Research Council of Norway FRIPRO grant<\/span>
\nMembers: Martin Kr\u00e4mer<\/a><\/span> (UIT), Olga Urek<\/a><\/span> (UIT), Kate Zhakun<\/a><\/span> (UIT),  Janet Grijzenhout<\/span><\/a> (Leiden), Draga Zec<\/a><\/span> (Cornell)<\/span><\/p>\n

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