There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain training involved in having to use a different ...

Vol. 22, No. 2, Special Issue: New Theoretical and Empirical Takes on Norwegian: Focusing on Acquisition, Variation And Attrition (July 2019), pp. 141-167 (27 pages) It is well known that grammatical ...

In the Central Norwegian dialect words have been so shortened that it's possible to construct sentences entirely made of vowels. This is a famous joke:A school kid is walking home after his first day ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Norwegian retroflexion exhibits some phonetic properties that do not seem to 'make sense'. In Standard East Norwegian, an alveolar /ɾ/ causes ...