Mirva Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirva Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirva |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6603-7816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America approaches settlement and migration from a range of directions and represents, as Gunlög Fur notes in the book's afterword, a welcome “first effort to collect scholarship on Nordic involvement in settler colonialism in the Americas” (287). Focusing on settler colonialism as both a historical process and analytical category, the volume builds on previous work by historians outlining Nordic involvement i…
Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using a supervised machine-learning model
This study presents results of two experiments using supervised machine-learning models to examine individual Finnish speakers’ dialectal backgrounds. Data come from interviews conducted with heritage speakers of Finnish in northern Wisconsin and are compared to data from the Finnish Dialect Syntax Archive. The models were constructed and then, following successful validation testing, used to identify the dialectal background of five individual A…
Reallocation
In the last 35 years, 'reallocation' has come to be widely used to describe how structural linguistic features in contact settings may remain as part of a new language variety and take on new functions as sociolinguistic variables rather than be lost over time, as is typically expected in koineization contexts. Classic examples involve originally regional differences that come to carry social, grammatical, or stylistic rather than regional meanin…
Muisteltu ja kirjoitettu evakkomatka
Reallocation
In the last 35 years, 'reallocation' has come to be widely used to describe how structural linguistic features in contact settings may remain as part of a new language variety and take on new functions as sociolinguistic variables rather than be lost over time, as is typically expected in koineization contexts. Classic examples involve originally regional differences that come to carry social, grammatical, or stylistic rather than regional meanin…
Muisteltu ja kirjoitettu evakkomatka
Reallocation
In the last 35 years, 'reallocation' has come to be widely used to describe how structural linguistic features in contact settings may remain as part of a new language variety and take on new functions as sociolinguistic variables rather than be lost over time, as is typically expected in koineization contexts. Classic examples involve originally regional differences that come to carry social, grammatical, or stylistic rather than regional meanin…
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America approaches settlement and migration from a range of directions and represents, as Gunlög Fur notes in the book's afterword, a welcome “first effort to collect scholarship on Nordic involvement in settler colonialism in the Americas” (287). Focusing on settler colonialism as both a historical process and analytical category, the volume builds on previous work by historians outlining Nordic involvement i…
Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using a supervised machine-learning model
This study presents results of two experiments using supervised machine-learning models to examine individual Finnish speakers’ dialectal backgrounds. Data come from interviews conducted with heritage speakers of Finnish in northern Wisconsin and are compared to data from the Finnish Dialect Syntax Archive. The models were constructed and then, following successful validation testing, used to identify the dialectal background of five individual A…
Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Accommodation (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works)