The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese

Höfundur: Kristján Árnason (Útgáfa: 0)
The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese

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This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese. It is written for Nordic linguists and theoretical phonologists interested in what the languages reveal about phonological structure and phonological change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics. The book is divided into five parts. In the first Professor Árnason provides the theoretical and historical context of his investigation.

Icelandic and Faroese originate from the West-Scandinavian or Norse spoken in Norway, Iceland and part of the Scottish Isles at the end of the Viking Age. The modern spoken languages are barely intelligible to each other and, despite many common phonological characteristics, exhibit differences that raise questions about their historical and structural relation and about phonological change more generally.

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Útgefandi
Oxford University Press Academic UK
ISBN
9780191617195
Print ISBN
9780199229314
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Kristján Árnason
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2011-08-25
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I: The historical and theoretical setting
  • 1 THE TWO LANGUAGES AND THEIR HISTORICAL RELATION
  • 1.1 The genetic relation: ‘Proto-West Nordic’
  • 1.2 West Nordic obstruents
  • 1.3 West Nordic sonorants
  • 1.4 West Nordic vowels
  • 1.5 Diphthongs and semivowels
  • 1.6 Prosodic structure
  • 2 THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
  • 2.1 Quantity and prosodic structure
  • 2.2 Overlong (superheavy) syllables and their development
  • 2.3 The components of the quantity shift
  • 2.4 Quality changes in the Icelandic vowel system
  • 2.5 Faroese vowel developments
  • 2.6 The short diphthongs
  • 2.7 The West Nordic consonant shift
  • 2.8 New postvocalic stops
  • 2.9 The skerping and hiatus
  • 2.10 Systemic arrangements and types of syllables
  • 3 THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES TO THE SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS
  • 3.1 Phonological levels of representation
  • 3.2 Alphabets for phonological representation
  • 3.3 The representation of time and precedence
  • 3.4 Saturation and fission in West Nordic diphthongs
  • 3.5 The modern diphthongal systems
  • Part II: The modern sound systems
  • 4 THE ICELANDIC VOWEL COLOURS AND DIPHTHONGS
  • 4.1 The Icelandic vowel system
  • 4.2 The vowels of non-initial syllables
  • 5 FAROESE VOWELS AND DIPHTHONGS
  • 5.1 An overview
  • 5.2 The phonetic and phonological analysis of the Faroese monophthongs and diphthongs
  • 5.3 More on dialect variation and vowel systems
  • 5.4 Hiatus phenomena in Faroese
  • 5.5 The unstressed vowels of Faroese
  • 6 ICELANDIC CONSONANTS
  • 6.1 An overview
  • 6.2 The stops
  • 6.3 The fricatives
  • 6.4 The sonorants
  • 6.5 Summary: the classes of consonants and their element analysis
  • 7 FAROESE CONSONANT SEGMENTS
  • 7.1 An overview
  • 7.2 The fortis and lenis plosives
  • 7.3 The fricatives
  • 7.4 Sonorants
  • 7.5 The element analysis of the Faroese system
  • Part III: Systemic relations and syllabic structure
  • 8 SYSTEMIC RELATIONS IN VOWELS
  • 8.1 Trends towards a diasystem in Icelandic
  • 8.2 The Faroese vowel systems
  • 8.3 The element analysis of reduction: limits on information in restricted environments
  • 8.4 Conclusion: systemic relations in vowel systems
  • 9 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE AND PHONOTACTICS
  • 9.1 Syllable structure in Icelandic
  • 9.2 Faroese syllables
  • 9.3 The consonantal phonotactics of Icelandic
  • 9.4 The consonantal phonotactics of Faroese
  • 9.5 Gemination of glides and consonants
  • 9.6 Conclusion: remarks on systemic structure and prominence
  • 10 LENGTH AND QUANTITY IN ACCENTUATION AND PHONOTACTICS
  • 10.1 Length and quantity in Icelandic
  • 10.2 The length rule on lexical and phonological levels in Icelandic
  • 10.3 The prosodic character of Faroese vowels
  • 10.4 Vowel shortness and the scale of prominence
  • Part IV: Segments and syllables on phonological levels
  • 11 ASPIRATION IN SYLLABIC AND SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE
  • 11.1 Aspiration and the character of the fortis–lenis opposition
  • 11.2 Preaspiration in Icelandic
  • 11.3 Preaspiration in Faroese
  • 11.4 Representing the difference
  • 11.5 Preaspiration in morphophonemics
  • 12 ALLOMORPHY, MORPHOPHONEMICS, AND PHONOLOGICAL LEVELS
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Lexical and postlexical relations in paradigms
  • 12.3 Vocalic patterns in Icelandic
  • 12.4 Faroese vowel morphophonemics
  • 12.5 Consonantal patterns in Icelandic morphophonemics
  • 12.6 Consonantal patterns in Faroese
  • 12.7 Vowel deletion in paradigms
  • 12.8 Intersyllabic glides and fricatives in allomorphy
  • 12.9 Morphosyntax and phonology
  • 12.10 Conclusion
  • Part V: Rhythmic structure
  • 13 WORD STRESS PATTERNS IN ICELANDIC AND FAROESE
  • 13.1 Icelandic word stress patterns
  • 13.2 Word stress patterns in Faroese
  • 13.3 The accommodation of foreign stress patterns
  • 13.4 Morphological considerations: Faroese pseudo-morphology?
  • 14 PHRASING AND POSTLEXICAL PHONOLOGY
  • 14.1 Phonological phrasing
  • 14.2 Systematic exceptions
  • 14.3 Pragmatically motivated exceptions
  • 14.4 The phonological consequences of phrasing
  • 14.5 Demarcative signals
  • 14.6 Constituency and prominence
  • 15 RHYTHM AND INTONATION
  • 15.1 Rhythm and constituency
  • 15.2 Icelandic intonation
  • 15.3 Faroese intonation
  • 15.4 The absence of word tones
  • A note on phonetic data
  • References
  • Index
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