Eva Sivertsen

Eva Sivertsen

Eva Sivertsen (8 July 1922 – 22 November 2009) was a Norwegian linguist.[1] She was known for her work on the Cockney dialect of the working-class, which was “one of the first investigations of an urban dialect in Britain.”[2] In 1961 she became the first female professor of English linguistics in Norway.[3]

  1. ^ Gordon, Matthew J. (3 January 2013). Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: A&C Black. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-441-15852-9. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  2. ^ Hickey, Raymond (20 April 2017). Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-107-05157-7. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Eva Sivertsen". Norwegian Biographical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 24 November 2022.