Maria Frick

• PhD
• Lecturer at University of Oulu

Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information m...

In this chapter, we explore the language use of people who speak Finnish as one language and either Swedish, Estonian, or English as another. The analysis concentrates on mixed compound nouns , that is, complex nouns which have one part in Finnish and the other in another language. We discuss how these instances of language mixing reflect the every...

With this volume, we invite you on a trip to the Far North of Europe, to Finland and its neighbouring countries Estonia and Sweden, and across the Arctic circle to the Lapland area which stretches from northernmost Scandinavia in the west to northern Finland and North-Western Russia. This is the area in which the Saami and Finnic peoples have lived...

Aims This study provides a multimodal conversation analytic account of directive sequences used in the presence of a child aged 1;8-2;4 growing up in an English-dominant environment and acquiring Polish as a heritage language. Design The video recorded data are drawn from naturally occurring interactions, in which the child is present when one car...

Tässä käyttöpohjaisessa ja vuorovaikutuslingvistisessä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan syntyperäisen suomenpuhujan käyttämiä nominaalilauseita ja erityisesti niiden kopulattomuutta tilanteessa, jossa puhutaan englantia, irakinarabiaa ja suomea. Irakinarabiassa kopulaa ei käytetä preesenslauseissa, kun taas suomen ja englannin yleiskielessä käytetään. T...

The multimodal conversation analysis in this paper shows how an au pair and a mother use several turns consisting of various bodily and multilingual elements to persuade a 5-year-old to go to the bathroom. We examine the participants’ orientation to the child’s deontic autonomy; that is, his right to determine his own actions. The analysis shows th...

This article investigates the role of direct input in the code-mixing of three bilingual children aged 2–4 years acquiring English as one language, and either German, Polish, or Finnish as the other. From a usage-based perspective, it is assumed that early children’s utterances are item-based and that they contain many lexically fixed patterns. To...

Tarkastelemme referointikeinoja, joita aikuiset autismikirjon henkilöt ja verrokit käyttävät puhuessaan toisen henkilön ajatuksista. Aineisto on kerätty tutkimustilanteessa, jossa tutkittavia pyydetään kertomaan, mitä videolla nähty henkilö voisi ajatella. Tässä tutkimuksessa referointikeinot on luokiteltu kuvaileviksi ja esittäviksi sen mukaan, py...

Objectives This study investigates monolingual and code-mixed utterances in four bilingual children with different language combinations (German–English, English–Polish, Finnish–English, and French–Russian) in terms of utterance lengths (MLUs) and complexities offering a usage-based (UB) explanation based on cognitive mechanisms. Methodology Utter...

Usage-based studies trace children’s early language back to slot-and-frame patterns which dominate spontaneous language use. We apply the Traceback method to data from three bilingual children with English as one of their languages and Polish, German, or Finnish as the other to examine what these children’s code-switching has in common and how it d...

Contemporary mobility between Estonia and Finland is a versatile example of a sudden rise of the intermingling of two languages in a diverse language sociological context. The political situation, which prevailed after World War II and during the second half of the 20th century, prevented direct contacts between the Estonian and Finnish speech comm...

This paper explores the use of bilingual punning in multilingual multiparty conversations among speakers with asymmetric language skills. The data of the study is drawn from video-recorded mundane peer conversations among Finns and Estonians. In this data, participants often use their respective mother tongues while talking to each other, even thou...

In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first-generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around Wor...

Drawing on a database of 26 hours of video-recorded Finnish conversations from three different settings – everyday conversations among family and friends, instrumental lessons and church workplace meetings – we consider the ways in which singing can be used as an interactional resource to enact the three basic communicative motives of humans: reque...

Viroon sijoittuvassa romaanissa käytetään neljäntyyppisiä virolaissanoja: kulttuurilainoja, frekvenssilainoja, kaksikielisten homofonien merkityslainoja (ns. ravioloja) ja kieliopillisessa funktiossa olevia lainoja. Artikkelissa vertaillaan näitä sanatyyppejä Virossa asuvien suomalaisten kieleen ja pohditaan niiden funktioita ja ymmärrettävyyttä ka...

Turns in interaction that initiate closure of expanded sequences are often summaries, accounts and assessments of the preceding talk. Sometimes these turns are produced by means that can be described as heteroglossic. This paper investigates singing and codeswitching in sequence closures, as well as other accompanying contextualisation cues such as...

Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish-Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context...

This study investigates codeswitching by Finns who live in Estonia. It draws from spoken and written interactional data where mainly Finnish is used, but where the participants also employ their Estonian resources. The articles in the study focus on a selection of grammatical and discourse-related phenomena, namely the formation of compound nouns,...

Facebook is the most popular social media in Finland with 1,5 million Finnish users in February 2010. Typical text types in social media are status lines and wall writings that are published for a selected network and that can be commented by any member of that network. In this article, conversation analysis is applied to the study of bilingual int...

The aim of this paper is to examine codeswitching in mainly Finnish language email data collected from 11 students during their first three years of residence in Estonia. The research focuses on the morphological integration of intrasentential switches to Estonian in the Finnish language base -i.e. the inflection of the switched items with either E...