Virve-Anneli Vihman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virve-Anneli Vihman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virve-Anneli |
| FAMILY NAME | Vihman |
| SIGNATURE | VIHMAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Acquisition of Noun Class Morphology in Eegimaa
In this paper, we examine young children’s acquisition of the prefixal noun class system of Eegimaa, a Jóola language spoken in Senegal (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo). The analysis is based on spontaneous, spoken data representing a mixed design (longitudinal and cross-sectional), with –9.5 hr of recordings, including nine children, aged between 1;10 and 3;2. The data yielded 967 spontaneously produced noun tokens. Across the group of children, a…
Outsourcing teenage language
This paper presents a remote method used for engaging teenagers as citizen sociolinguists within the research project Teen Speak in Estonia. The project, launched in January 2020, aims to investigate young people’s language by creating the first systematic dual corpus of Estonian teenagers’ spoken language and text messaging. Previously, youth language in Estonia has not been the subject of much research. Yet scholarly attention to teenage langua…
Adolescent Heritage Speakers
Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance. This study describes HL usage among Estonian-Swedish bilingual teenagers. Data were collected from 21 first- and second-generation Estonian heritage speakers (aged 12-17). Non-standard usage occur…
Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition
Most, if not all, languages exhibit “animacy effects”: grammatical structures interact with the relative animacy of noun referents, as represented on various versions of animacy scales, with human discourse participants at one end and inanimate objects at the other. Cross-linguistic evidence attests to a range of linguistic phenomena conditioned by animacy, with complex effects requiring (a) subtler distinctions than a binary contrast [± animate]…
Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning
Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of human languages. We ran an iterated learning experiment investigating the effect of animacy on language transmission. Participants engaged in a simple artificial language learning task in which they…
Pilk laste keeleomandamisele. Teoreetilistest alustest ja kvantitatiivsetest lähenemistest
Lapsesuu on kõigile nii tuttav ja emakeel nii omane, et leidub palju värvikaid näiteid suurtelt mõtlejatelt, kes kirjeldavad, kuidas lapsed keelt omandavad. Püha Augustinus, keda tsiteerib Ludwig Wittgenstein (2005 [1953]), väidab mäletavat seda, kuidas ta õppis keelt, kui vanemad osutasid erinevatele asjadele ja nimetasid neid.(1) Wittgenstein seab selle mälestuse kahtluse alla: tema meelest on keeletekke kontekst [...]
Shifting perspective
Language Interaction in Emergent Grammars
This paper examines the morphological integration of nouns in bilingual children's code-switching to investigate whether children adhere to constraints posited for adult code-switching. The changing nature of grammars in development makes the Matrix Language Frame a moving target; permeability between languages in bilinguals undermines the concept of a monolingual grammatical frame. The data analysed consist of 630 diary entries with code-switchi…
Who needs it? Variation in experiencer marking in Estonian ‘need’-constructions
In this paper, we tackle the twin issues of obligatoriness of semantic arguments and variation in their expression through a study of Estonian constructions denoting need. The variation under investigation consists in the choice of case-marking, between adessive and allative case, as well as the option to omit the oblique argument. We extracted and coded ‘need’-constructions from spoken and written corpora and used non-parametric classification m…
Varieerumine "tarvis-/vaja-"konstruktsioonides keelekontaktide valguses
eelekontaktide uurimises on ha enam thelepanu plvinud keelte (morfo)sntaktilised sarnastumisnhud. Selles valdkonnas on eesti keele kontaktide mju vaadeldud peamiselt seoses kahe keeleliiduga (sks Sprachbund): Lnemere keeleliiduga (vt nt Dahl, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001) vi Euroopa keeleliiduga, millele iseloomulikke nhtusi vetakse enamasti kokku
Language Interaction in Emergent Grammars
This paper examines the morphological integration of nouns in bilingual children's code-switching to investigate whether children adhere to constraints posited for adult code-switching. The changing nature of grammars in development makes the Matrix Language Frame a moving target; permeability between languages in bilinguals undermines the concept of a monolingual grammatical frame. The data analysed consist of 630 diary entries with code-switchi…
Who needs it? Variation in experiencer marking in Estonian ‘need’-constructions
In this paper, we tackle the twin issues of obligatoriness of semantic arguments and variation in their expression through a study of Estonian constructions denoting need. The variation under investigation consists in the choice of case-marking, between adessive and allative case, as well as the option to omit the oblique argument. We extracted and coded ‘need’-constructions from spoken and written corpora and used non-parametric classification m…
Varieerumine "tarvis-/vaja-"konstruktsioonides keelekontaktide valguses
eelekontaktide uurimises on ha enam thelepanu plvinud keelte (morfo)sntaktilised sarnastumisnhud. Selles valdkonnas on eesti keele kontaktide mju vaadeldud peamiselt seoses kahe keeleliiduga (sks Sprachbund): Lnemere keeleliiduga (vt nt Dahl, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001) vi Euroopa keeleliiduga, millele iseloomulikke nhtusi vetakse enamasti kokku
Who needs it? Variation in experiencer marking in Estonian ‘need’-constructions
In this paper, we tackle the twin issues of obligatoriness of semantic arguments and variation in their expression through a study of Estonian constructions denoting need. The variation under investigation consists in the choice of case-marking, between adessive and allative case, as well as the option to omit the oblique argument. We extracted and coded ‘need’-constructions from spoken and written corpora and used non-parametric classification m…
Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning
Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of human languages. We ran an iterated learning experiment investigating the effect of animacy on language transmission. Participants engaged in a simple artificial language learning task in which they…
Pilk laste keeleomandamisele. Teoreetilistest alustest ja kvantitatiivsetest lähenemistest
Lapsesuu on kõigile nii tuttav ja emakeel nii omane, et leidub palju värvikaid näiteid suurtelt mõtlejatelt, kes kirjeldavad, kuidas lapsed keelt omandavad. Püha Augustinus, keda tsiteerib Ludwig Wittgenstein (2005 [1953]), väidab mäletavat seda, kuidas ta õppis keelt, kui vanemad osutasid erinevatele asjadele ja nimetasid neid.(1) Wittgenstein seab selle mälestuse kahtluse alla: tema meelest on keeletekke kontekst [...]
Shifting perspective
Language Interaction in Emergent Grammars
This paper examines the morphological integration of nouns in bilingual children's code-switching to investigate whether children adhere to constraints posited for adult code-switching. The changing nature of grammars in development makes the Matrix Language Frame a moving target; permeability between languages in bilinguals undermines the concept of a monolingual grammatical frame. The data analysed consist of 630 diary entries with code-switchi…
Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition
Most, if not all, languages exhibit “animacy effects”: grammatical structures interact with the relative animacy of noun referents, as represented on various versions of animacy scales, with human discourse participants at one end and inanimate objects at the other. Cross-linguistic evidence attests to a range of linguistic phenomena conditioned by animacy, with complex effects requiring (a) subtler distinctions than a binary contrast [± animate]…
Outsourcing teenage language
This paper presents a remote method used for engaging teenagers as citizen sociolinguists within the research project Teen Speak in Estonia. The project, launched in January 2020, aims to investigate young people’s language by creating the first systematic dual corpus of Estonian teenagers’ spoken language and text messaging. Previously, youth language in Estonia has not been the subject of much research. Yet scholarly attention to teenage langua…
Adolescent Heritage Speakers
Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance. This study describes HL usage among Estonian-Swedish bilingual teenagers. Data were collected from 21 first- and second-generation Estonian heritage speakers (aged 12-17). Non-standard usage occur…
The Acquisition of Noun Class Morphology in Eegimaa
In this paper, we examine young children’s acquisition of the prefixal noun class system of Eegimaa, a Jóola language spoken in Senegal (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo). The analysis is based on spontaneous, spoken data representing a mixed design (longitudinal and cross-sectional), with –9.5 hr of recordings, including nine children, aged between 1;10 and 3;2. The data yielded 967 spontaneously produced noun tokens. Across the group of children, a…
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Noun (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Animacy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Estonian (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)