Sven Strömqvist

• Ph.D., Dr.h.c.
• Lund University

This chapter is a sketch towards a general model of the language production process in different modalities, with special reference to the dynamic interaction between language and thought. The model, it is argued, must take the temporal, social and cognitive organization of the language production process into account.Special attention is given the...

In this study we investigated the intricate interplay between central linguistic processing and peripheral motor processes during typewriting. Participants had to typewrite two-constituent (noun-noun) Finnish compounds in response to picture presentation while their typing behavior was registered. As dependent measures we used writing onset time to...

The research group from Humanities Laboratory at Lund University, Sweden, presents three strands of research on language and cognition where eye-tracking methodology has been used as a window on the mind. The paper includes: (1) eye tracking studies on picture viewing and picture description showing the dynamics of how speakers perceive, conceptual...

The Swedish word att /at/ is associated with two grammatical functions: a) (part of) a sub- ordinate conjunction and b) an infinitive marker. This pilot study, with 5 short spontaneous discourses from 3 male speakers shows a correlation between pauses after att, and aspi- ration of /t/ in att, where aspiration can be interpreted as a kind of final...

The pilot project reported here utilized the first technology ever developed for the computerized on-line registration and analysis of finger movements during Braille reading. Five congenitally blind subjects performed tactile reading of pedagogically carefully selected texts. Two specialists in visual impairments analyzed the computer-registered r...

Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 workshop Nordic Perspectives on the CLARIN Infrastructure of Language Resources. Editors: Rickard Domeij, Kimmo Koskenniemi, Steven Krauwer, Bente Maegaard, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Koenraad de Smedt. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 5 (2009), 1-5. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European As...

For some forty years the eye-tracking technology has facilitated the study of eye movement patterns for sighted people during reading and other visual activities. Today – a newly developed automatic finger tracking system makes it possible to reconstruct blind peopleÕs tactile reading in real time and to automatically analyze finger movements durin...

The DAM-LR project aims at virtually integrating various European language resource archives that allow users to navigate and operate in a single unified domain of language resources. This type of integration introduces Grid technology to the humanities disciplines and forms a federation of archives. The complete architecture is designed based on a...

It is well known that the cognitive cost of programming motor movements in writing can be considerably high if execution is not automatized. However, it is not clear how this cost might affect the on-line production of a written text, namely the distribution of pauses vs. execution periods. Narratives were collected using ScriptLog. Keystroke inter...

The DAM-LR (Distributed Access Management for Language Resources) project aims at virtually integrating various European language resource archives that allow users to navigate and operate in a single unified domain of language resources. This type of integration introduces Grid technology to the humanities disciplines and forms a federation of arc...

This subchapter provides an introduction to the possibilities and limitations of digital tools for recording of writing processes, a comprehensive framework in which the digital tools that are explained further in the subchapters 2-5 are integrated and a critical perspective to the characteristics of the tools, their usage and related automatic ana...

This subchapter describes the successful development of a new methodology for studying on-line writing. The text-logging tool ScriptLog has been combined with the eye-tracking technology iView X HED HT, in order to enhance the study of the interplay between writing, monitoring and revision. Data on the distribution of visual attention during writin...

Dieser mit einem psycholinguistischen Ansatz arbeitende Artikel möchte zeigen, wie sich die Aufzeichnung Anschläge auf die Tastatur als ein Fenster auf den online-Schreibprozess benutzen laßt. Nach einem kurzen Überblick liber Methoden und Hilfsmittel, mit denen Schreibversuche konstruiert, das Speichern des Schreibprozesses gewührleistet und die A...

The paper compares two lexical items, Icelandic maður and Swedish man, for the construction of a detached, general discourse stance (Berman, Ragnarsdóttir and Strömqvist, 2002). Both forms mean ‘man’, but they can also be used in a generic sense. In that usage, Icelandic maður is associated with several semantic, pragmatic, and stylistic constraint...

The INTERA and ECHO projects were partly intended to create a critical mass of open and linked metadata descriptions of language resources, helping researchers to understand the benefits of an increased visibility of language resources in the Internet and motivating them to participate. The work was based on the new IMDI version 3.0.3 which is a re...

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with Ruth Berman and...

The aim of this article is to integrate findings reported in the preceding articles in this collection, employing a global discourse perspective labeled discourse stance. The paper attempts to clarify what is meant by this notion, and how it can contribute to the evaluation of text construction along the major variables of our project: target Langu...

The present study presents contrastive analyses of task-oriented spoken and written discourse in terms of lexical diversity, lexical density, and word length. In an age-matched within-language comparison (Swedish), written discourse consistently scored higher on these measures. It is suggested that the same type of differences will hold for any lan...

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the in...

In this paper, we investigate some aspects of the written language production process in dyslexic writers. A group of adult dyslexic writers are compared with a control group and a group of congenitally deaf writers. We present analyses of the actions of both constructing and editing linguistic units during on-line writing. The results suggest that...

The present study explores two domains in Scandinavian child language development where the encoding of arguments to verbs shows a variable distribution. The first domain is grammatical subjects in an early phase of development when the 90% criterion is not yet attained. The second domain is spatial arguments (landmarks and location). It is argued...

The present study explores the development of feedback morphemes (e.g., yes, no, mm etc) and feedback-giving through other-repetition in the early language development of two monolingual Swedish children. The two children differ with respect to rate as well as preferred means of linguistic feedback giving. In both children, however, there is a peri...

The typological variation between the Nordic languages offers a “natural laboratory” for the cross-linguistic study of first language acquisition. Based on an on-going inter-Nordic project, the present article discusses research designs for the exploration of this laboratory together with pilot analyses of acquisition data across Danish, Finnish, I...

The present study investigates the development of grammatical aspects of narrative structure in child L1 and adult L2 acquisition in a comparative perspective. The narratives were elicited through a picture story task. In the theoretical part of the study, this task is analyzed in semantic and psycholinguistic terms. In the empirical part of the st...

Individual differences in second-language learning (Second Language Acquisition series). SkehanPeter. London: Edward Arnold, 1989. Pp. 168. - Volume 12 Issue 4 - Sven Strömqvist

MillsAnne E.: The Acquisition of Gender—A Study of English and German. (Springer Series in Language and Communication Vol. 20.) Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986. 173 pp. - Volume 11 Issue 1-2 - Sven Strömqvist, Anders-Börje Andersson

One's first language provides a set of habitual event construals. Part of the challenge of mastering second language lies in adopting another set of event construals, some of which may be quite different from one's first-language habits and expectations. An event construal consists of relevant categories of experience. Further, each category is ana...

propose that the tonal or intonational structure of a language may facilitate the production of grammatical morphology if those morphemes are prosodically salient in some way, where salient may be interpreted as "contrastive" or "different" / [focus] on interactions between the realization of inflectional morphology and (unmarked) acute vs (marked)...

The first part of the present paper discusses why the Humanities is lagging behind in terms of making use of e-science and what might be done to remedy that situation. The diversity of ontologies in the Humanities, hampering consensus over metadata, is one problem. Another problem is the lack of education in e-science tailored to the needs of resea...

Added t.p. with abstract and errata slip (3 p.) inserted. "(Section 1.3 in cooperation with Peter de Chateau, M.D.)" Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Göteborg. Bibliography: p. 212-217.