Thevissen, Patrick; 56624; Waltimo-Siren, Janna; Saarimaa, Hanna-Maija; Lahdesmaki, Raija; Evalahti, Marjut; Metsaniitty, Mari;
The timing of dental development in ethnic Finns and Somalis, who were born and living in Finland, was compared, with efforts to minimize environmental bias. The developmental status of seven lower left permanent teeth were staged according to Demirjian et al., using panoramic radiographs from 2,100 Finnish and 808 Somali females and males, aged 2 ...
Yurayong, Chingduang Kittilä, Seppo
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Open Linguistics
The present study adopts a typological approach to investigate intersubjective uses of the Finnish clitic markers =hAn and =se, which are derived from third-person pronouns, within the emerging framework of engagement. The methods encompass two data gathering approaches: 1) a qualitative survey involving actual Finnish language users through a ques...
Blomqvist, Oliver
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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
This paper studies on multilingual administrative writing in Sweden during the early modern era of emerging national language ideology within the domain of court writing. The source material for this study consists of lower-court records from Finnish-speaking areas of the Swedish realm c. 1620–1700. The court system in Sweden was reformed in 1614 w...
fägersten, kristy beers stapleton, karyn hjort, minna
In this paper, we consider the censorship of public swear word usage as a function of, and continued maintenance of, taboo with a focus on L1 and LX swearing and its management. In research with multilingual speakers, first-language swear words are consistently perceived as more taboo, and thus more emotional/powerful than equivalent words from a s...
Larsson, Jacob
This study examines different methods of language identification for the languages Meänkieli, Kven, and Finnish. The methods explored are two n-gram-based classifiers; Naive Bayes and TextCat and one word embedding-based classifier; fastText. These models were trained on approximately 100.000 sentences taken from the three languages and further div...
Rezac, Milan
This work explores the coupling of person-split nominative objects with anomalous subjects (Jahnsson’s Rule JR, Person-Case Constraint PCC). In Breton, split-nominative objects spread from an Icelandic-like combination with oblique subjects of unaccusatives, to Finnish-like combinations with subjects of transitives in constructions like the imperat...
Brännmark, Theres
This study investigates how a compulsory school, catering for students from the preschool class to grade nine in the north of Sweden, visually opens spaces in the schoolscape for multilingualism involving the national minority languages, Finnish, Meänkieli, and Sami. The analysed material consists of photographs of language-related images, objects,...
Larsson, Tarja
Uutta ruotsinsuomalaista sanastoa kehittyy pääasiassa kahdella tavalla. Eniten uutta sanastoa syntyy epävirallisissa keskustelutilanteissa, mutta sanastoa luodaan myös tietoisesti, kun Kielenja kansanperinteen tutkimuslaitos antaa suosituksia esimerkiksi Ruotsin viranomaisten nimienkääntämisestä. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, millai...
Kittilä, Seppo
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Folia Linguistica
Inference is usually defined as a speaker’s personal but indirect evidence that is based on something that the speaker can directly witness (such as the result of an event), while assumption is based on something such as the speaker’s general knowledge of the world. This paper is concerned with inference and assumption in light of the semantics of ...
Priiki, Katri
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Open Linguistics
This study examines the linguistic metadiscourse on expressions perceived as ‘annoying’ and the strategies used to justify this perception. Two different types of data are examined in which verbal hygiene is practised in interaction: language biography interviews and anonymous online discussions. In the examined datasets, the discussion begins with...