Øystein A Vangsnes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1714944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Øystein A Vangsnes |
| PRENOMES | Øystein A |
| SOBRENOME | Vangsnes |
| ASSINATURA | VANGSNES Ø A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1017-8657 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Neurolinguistic signatures of microvariation and language change
This study investigates the neurophysiological and behavioral effects of exposure to grammatical microvariation, focusing on the relationship between individual production patterns and on-line sentence processing. We examine a unique context of ongoing morphosyntactic change in Norwegian participial agreement, which gives rise to widespread, near-continuous variation in agreement marking across dialects and speakers. Event-related potentials (ERP…
Spotting the lect
This study investigates how Norwegian adolescents with different literacy profiles perceive and distinguish standard and dialectal varieties of written Norwegian. Using a variety classification task, we analyzed response accuracy and reaction times (RTs) among 398 lower secondary school pupils across three regions: Eastern Norway (primarily Bokmål-literate), Northern Norway (exposed to Bokmål and dialect writing), and Western Norway (familiar wit…
Age, interactions with peers, and proficiency in the standard variety predict children’s dialect proficiency
Aims and objectives: This study explores the variations in dialect proficiency among bidialectal children in the Dutch province of Limburg, situated in the southeast of the Netherlands. The primary objective is to uncover the sources of individual differences in dialect proficiency within a dialect-standard continuum. Methodology: The study employs a cross-sectional design to assess dialect proficiency through a picture naming task conducted in t…
Bidialectal language representation and processing
This study investigates bilectal grammatical representation and processing using three ERP reading experiments in two Norwegian dialect regions. Northern Norwegian bilectals were tested in two separate sessions in two written varieties: the local written standard (Bokmål, n = 83) and Northern Norwegian dialect writing (n = 68). The study included both non-contrastive gender (control) and dialect-specific number (target) agreement conditions. In g…
Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties
The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly affected by NN exposure. The more exposure …
Janne Bondi Johannessen 1960–2020
Ida Larsson, Helge Lødrup, Øystein A. Vangsnes, & Marit Westergaard

Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
This article provides an empirically based overview and discussion of types of adjectival agreement in attributive and predicative posisitions in Norwegian. In particular, we focus on two empirical facts that are quite striking: 1) With semantic agreement in predicative position, there are apparently no formal agreement features in the predication subject that trigger agreement on the predicative adjective; 2) Even though there is not alway forma…
Joina du kino imårgå? Ungdommars dialektskriving på sosiale medium
This study investigates the use of written dialect among adolescents from four different locations in Norway, each representing one of the main dialect areas of the country (north, central, west, and east). The data are drawn from the larger study Multilectal Practices in Social Media where a total of 1532 students from 42 different upper secondary schools in all regions of Norway have completed an online questionnaire about their language compet…
English preface
Giellariššu
About 10% of all pupils in grades 1-10 who learn Smi in Norwegian schools live in the city of Troms in Northern Norway. This group totalled 232 pupils in the school year 2020/2021, and the pupils went to over twenty different schools. All but one were pupils of North Smi, and a handful also received instruction in South Smi. In Ume in Sweden, 42 pupils attended mother tongue classes in Smi in the winter of 2021, divided among four different varie…
The effect of bidialectal literacy on school achievement
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed bidialectal literacy. In this study, we correlate, at municipal level, the results from Norwegian standardized national tests in reading, arit…
Variation and change in Norwegian wh -questions
In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh -questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh -elements (the latter argued to be heads) and subject vs. non-subject questions. In subject qu…
A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages
The Nordic Dialect Corpus project was initiated by the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax Network (ScanDiaSyn). In order to be able to study the North Germanic (i.e., Nordic) dialects, proper documentation of the dialects was needed. A corpus consisting of natural speech by dialect speakers was developed in order to systematically map and study syntactic variations across the Scandinavian dialect continuum. The corpus was to be comprised of transcribed …
Syncretism and functional expansion in Germanic wh-expressions
What kind of Scandinavian? On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic
A central objective of this paper is to show how much variation there is across Scandinavian with respect to the morphosyntactic form of interrogative noun phrases. The present paper focuses on three main types of such DPs: (i) phrases involving a cognate of English which , (ii) phrases involving the same element as manner ‘how’ (which is morphologically complex and distinct from degree ‘how’), and (iii) phrases involving ‘what’ with or without a…
Microparameters for Norwegian wh-grammars
The absence of V2 in mainclause wh -questions is geographically speaking a very widespread phenomenon in Norwegian, absent only in central eastern and southeastern Norwegian dialects. The characteristics of the phenomenon are nevertheless not uniform across the dialects – three descriptive variables can be discerned: (i) whether or not V2 is required, (ii) whether or not V2 is optional alongside non-V2, and (iii) whether or not non-V2 is allowed …
Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types
Icelandic expletive-associate1 constructions show that the widespread view that the expletive enforces the so-called Definiteness Effect on the associate, or the ‘logical subject,’ cannot be correct. Uncontroversial data presented below tell us this, notably the fact that universally quantifying noun phrases are allowed as associates in Icelandic expletive constructions. The prime concern of this chapter will be to discuss this fact along with ot…
Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties
The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly affected by NN exposure. The more exposure …
Syncretism and functional expansion in Germanic wh-expressions
Bidialectal language representation and processing
This study investigates bilectal grammatical representation and processing using three ERP reading experiments in two Norwegian dialect regions. Northern Norwegian bilectals were tested in two separate sessions in two written varieties: the local written standard (Bokmål, n = 83) and Northern Norwegian dialect writing (n = 68). The study included both non-contrastive gender (control) and dialect-specific number (target) agreement conditions. In g…
Variation and change in Norwegian wh -questions
In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh -questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh -elements (the latter argued to be heads) and subject vs. non-subject questions. In subject qu…
Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types
Icelandic expletive-associate1 constructions show that the widespread view that the expletive enforces the so-called Definiteness Effect on the associate, or the ‘logical subject,’ cannot be correct. Uncontroversial data presented below tell us this, notably the fact that universally quantifying noun phrases are allowed as associates in Icelandic expletive constructions. The prime concern of this chapter will be to discuss this fact along with ot…
Microparameters for Norwegian wh-grammars
The absence of V2 in mainclause wh -questions is geographically speaking a very widespread phenomenon in Norwegian, absent only in central eastern and southeastern Norwegian dialects. The characteristics of the phenomenon are nevertheless not uniform across the dialects – three descriptive variables can be discerned: (i) whether or not V2 is required, (ii) whether or not V2 is optional alongside non-V2, and (iii) whether or not non-V2 is allowed …
What kind of Scandinavian? On interrogative noun phrases across North Germanic
A central objective of this paper is to show how much variation there is across Scandinavian with respect to the morphosyntactic form of interrogative noun phrases. The present paper focuses on three main types of such DPs: (i) phrases involving a cognate of English which , (ii) phrases involving the same element as manner ‘how’ (which is morphologically complex and distinct from degree ‘how’), and (iii) phrases involving ‘what’ with or without a…
Syncretism and functional expansion in Germanic wh-expressions
A multilingual speech corpus of North-Germanic languages
The Nordic Dialect Corpus project was initiated by the Scandinavian Dialect Syntax Network (ScanDiaSyn). In order to be able to study the North Germanic (i.e., Nordic) dialects, proper documentation of the dialects was needed. A corpus consisting of natural speech by dialect speakers was developed in order to systematically map and study syntactic variations across the Scandinavian dialect continuum. The corpus was to be comprised of transcribed …
The effect of bidialectal literacy on school achievement
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed bidialectal literacy. In this study, we correlate, at municipal level, the results from Norwegian standardized national tests in reading, arit…
Variation and change in Norwegian wh -questions
In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh -questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh -elements (the latter argued to be heads) and subject vs. non-subject questions. In subject qu…
Janne Bondi Johannessen 1960–2020
Ida Larsson, Helge Lødrup, Øystein A. Vangsnes, & Marit Westergaard

Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
This article provides an empirically based overview and discussion of types of adjectival agreement in attributive and predicative posisitions in Norwegian. In particular, we focus on two empirical facts that are quite striking: 1) With semantic agreement in predicative position, there are apparently no formal agreement features in the predication subject that trigger agreement on the predicative adjective; 2) Even though there is not alway forma…
Joina du kino imårgå? Ungdommars dialektskriving på sosiale medium
This study investigates the use of written dialect among adolescents from four different locations in Norway, each representing one of the main dialect areas of the country (north, central, west, and east). The data are drawn from the larger study Multilectal Practices in Social Media where a total of 1532 students from 42 different upper secondary schools in all regions of Norway have completed an online questionnaire about their language compet…
English preface
Giellariššu
About 10% of all pupils in grades 1-10 who learn Smi in Norwegian schools live in the city of Troms in Northern Norway. This group totalled 232 pupils in the school year 2020/2021, and the pupils went to over twenty different schools. All but one were pupils of North Smi, and a handful also received instruction in South Smi. In Ume in Sweden, 42 pupils attended mother tongue classes in Smi in the winter of 2021, divided among four different varie…
Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties
The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly affected by NN exposure. The more exposure …
Age, interactions with peers, and proficiency in the standard variety predict children’s dialect proficiency
Aims and objectives: This study explores the variations in dialect proficiency among bidialectal children in the Dutch province of Limburg, situated in the southeast of the Netherlands. The primary objective is to uncover the sources of individual differences in dialect proficiency within a dialect-standard continuum. Methodology: The study employs a cross-sectional design to assess dialect proficiency through a picture naming task conducted in t…
Bidialectal language representation and processing
This study investigates bilectal grammatical representation and processing using three ERP reading experiments in two Norwegian dialect regions. Northern Norwegian bilectals were tested in two separate sessions in two written varieties: the local written standard (Bokmål, n = 83) and Northern Norwegian dialect writing (n = 68). The study included both non-contrastive gender (control) and dialect-specific number (target) agreement conditions. In g…
Neurolinguistic signatures of microvariation and language change
This study investigates the neurophysiological and behavioral effects of exposure to grammatical microvariation, focusing on the relationship between individual production patterns and on-line sentence processing. We examine a unique context of ongoing morphosyntactic change in Norwegian participial agreement, which gives rise to widespread, near-continuous variation in agreement marking across dialects and speakers. Event-related potentials (ERP…
Spotting the lect
This study investigates how Norwegian adolescents with different literacy profiles perceive and distinguish standard and dialectal varieties of written Norwegian. Using a variety classification task, we analyzed response accuracy and reaction times (RTs) among 398 lower secondary school pupils across three regions: Eastern Norway (primarily Bokmål-literate), Northern Norway (exposed to Bokmål and dialect writing), and Western Norway (familiar wit…
Linguistics (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Norwegian (8 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 obras) · Germanic languages (3 obras)