Creating Knowledge X: Evaluation report

Creating Knowledge 2021 took place as an online conference on June 3-4, 2021, hosted by UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Shortly afterwards, all delegates were sent an evaluation form so that we could learn from our mistakes and further improve all the good elements

What hinders the acquisition of schwa alternation?

Paper presented at the Variation in Language Acquisition (VILA) 2 conference, Grenoble, 03.12. - 05.12.14, arranged by Université Stendhal

Enchaînement, liaison, accentuation chez les apprenants norvégophones

Given that their L1, Norwegian, and their L2, English, are lexical stress languages, Norwegian speakers will equally tend to stress lexical words during the course of acquisition of L3 French, insuring the prosodic autonomy of each word. In the present paper, we show that this strategy slows down the acquisition of two external sandhi phenomena in French, i.e. liaison and final consonant linking. The data, taken from two corpora recently collected in Tromsø and Oslo, indicate that the learners' acquisition path is conditioned by internal factors like prosodic weight, perceptual salience and frequency, and by external factors like the different tasks to be completed, i.e. reading vs conversation. The data further indicate that liaisons following determiners and clitics are the first categories to be acquired and that spontaneous speech, where the learner does not have direct access to the graphic word, seems to favor erasing the prosodic boundaries required by the prosodic system of her L1

"We can work it out!" Collaborating on Research Data Management Services at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Presentation at NUAS forum 2019, Tromsø, 14. - 16.08.19. (https://www.nuasforum2019.org/). Arranged by NUAS (Det Nordiska Universitets Administratörs Samarbet): https://www.nuas.org/. </a

Adapting flexible metadata support in Dataverse to the needs of domain-specific repositories – the case of The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

Presentation at the online Knowledge Organization Research Observatory (KO-RO) seminar, 24.11.21, arranged by The UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Or. https://www.iskouk.org/event-4527328The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing; https://trolling.uit.no/) is an international repository of data, code, and other related materials used in linguistic research. Established in 2014, TROLLing has since 2020 been CoreTrustSeal-certified as a sustainable and trusted research data repository. Running on the Dataverse software (https://dataverse.org/), TROLLing has so far been using a more general metadata schema which is provided by the repository software. Drawing on the work being done in projects like SSHOC (https://www.sshopencloud.eu/) and CLARINO+ (https://clarin.w.uib.no/about/), the metadata schemas in TROLLing are being upgraded to meet the needs of our designated community, and the requirements and recommendations of international stakeholders like CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure; https://www.clarin.eu/) and the Research Data Alliance Linguistics Data Interest Group (https://rd-alliance.org/groups/linguistics-data-ig). The presentation will include a short introduction to TROLLing and discuss how community-driven efforts enable the repository to provide FAIR-aligned domain-specific support for linguists worldwide

L3 acquisition of phonological variation: Schwa and (non) sensitivity to phonotactic constraints in Norwegian learners of French

Presentation at the FiNo (Fonologi i Norden) 3 conference, Lund, 09.02. - 10.02.18, arranged by Lund University. https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/. According to Bayley and Regan (2004), the mastery of phonological variation forms an integrated part of the competence of the post-L1 speaker who aims a near-native production. In French, two phonological variables are acquired rather late, i.e. liaison and schwa. Both involve deletion of word boundaries which complicates lexical recognition, as well as sensitivity to register and modality. The two phenomena do however vary in that liaison - with inter-vocalic consonant realization - doesn't entail additional difficulty for production, while schwa, when absent, creates consonant sequences often not perceived and difficult to produce. While post-L1 acquisition of liaison is rather extensively studied, schwa is not, which according to Hannahs (2007) might reflect the complexity of the influencing factors. We know however, from L1 studies, that phonotactic constraints, on the syllabic as well as the segmental level, do influence schwa alternation (for an overview, see Andreassen, 2013), and in this paper, we present a first, detailed study of Norwegian learners of French, which aims to understand the importance of phonotactics during post-L1 acquisition. The study is based on conversational data from two corpora of Norwegian learners of French, 16 informants from Tromsø, proficiency level A2, and 8 informants from Oslo, proficiency level B1/B2. Schwa behavior is extracted using the newly developed IPFC schwa coding system (Isely et al., 2017), of which a pilot has already been tested on parts of the Norwegian learner data by Andreassen and Lyche (2016). While the latter, initial analysis indicates a gradual sensibility towards phonotactic context, other factors such as frequency and access to written representations are observed as playing an important role. In this paper, we aim to identify an acquisitional path by going in detail into the phonotactic context of schwa and how it behaves, as well as the realization of the secondary cluster in the case of schwa absence. To detect L1 influence, we take into account L1 phonotactic as well as prosodic constraints. To determine sensibility towards phonological variation in general, we take into account previous analyses of liaison in the same corpora (Andreassen & Lyche, 2015)

Les enfants francophones sont-ils particulièrement doués? Quelles stratégies adoptent-ils dans l'acquisition du schwa? Une illustration en Suisse

Presentation at University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo, 31.10.2014

L'acquisition de sons similaires à des sons dans la langue première: Une étude de cas

Presentation at the online conference 18èmes rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie (RFP), 1. - 2.07.21, arranged by Université de Clermont Auvergne. https://rfp2021.sciencesconf.org/</a

La citation de données de recherche dans des publications en linguistique: L’histoire d’une initiative prise par la communauté scientifique

Journée évaluation des corpus : où en est-on, où allons-nous ? Séminaire organisé par CORLI, 3 octobre 2019, Paris More information and full programme (in French).La création et la diffusion de la recherche reproductible reçoivent de plus en plus d’attention dans la discussion sur les meilleures pratiques de publication et d’enseignement. Un élément clé de ces pratiques constitue la citation appropriée des données de recherche. En 2017, un réseau de chercheurs, archivistes et bibliothécaires a fondé un groupe au sein de Research Data Alliance, Linguistics Data Interest Group, ayant comme objectif principal d’identifier les défis liés aux données de recherche en linguistique et de contribuer à répondre à ceux-ci. Dans cette communication, je présenterai l’historique du groupe, les objectifs ainsi que les résultats actuels. Je terminerai sur une réflexion sur l’avenir et comment notre réseau pourra collaborer avec d’autres milieux intéressés par ce travail

Engaging researchers with research data

Slides of presentation at the Libraries for Research Data IG