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1.  Alexandra Ignateva will be presenting her research titled Evaluating Collocation Measures: Which Best Support Lexicographic Choice? This study investigates the effectiveness of statistical association measures in identifying strong Norwegian collocations, focusing on their relevance to lexicographic practices. 20 high-frequency Norwegian words— adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs—were selected as collocation nodes. Collocations that contain those words were extracted from the annotated Norwegian Newspaper Corpus and the Lexicographic Corpus of Bokmål (LBK) in the Corpuscle. After calculating their association scores, the collocations with the selected words from the articles in the online dictionary https://ordbokene.no/ were ranked and scores were assigned. The ranking of collocations based on their association scores aims to identify which measures best align with lexicographic choices, thereby offering insights into the most suitable association measures for the dictionary work.
    
2. Emily Loncarek will be presenting her research Cognitive Control in Bilingual Language Switching: A Study of German and Croatian-Speaking Children. Bilingual language control is key for managing two active languages, yet we still have much to learn about how children develop these skills in daily life. In this study, we looked at switch and mixing costs in Croatian–German bilingual children (ages 4–11) from Austria and Croatia using a picture‐naming task with flag cues to indicate the target language. Our results show that both older and younger children benefit from a brief preparation period: children across age groups responded faster when a cue was given, though older children were generally quicker overall. We also found that language dominance influences switch costs—each group struggled more when required to switch back to their dominant language. These findings highlight the importance of proactive control in bilingual development and carry meaningful implications for language education and cognitive theory.

De neste møtene vil finne sted:

• Torsdag 15. mai, 13:00-14:00
• Torsdag 12. juni, 13:00-14:00

Velkommen!