The Phonology of Norwegian

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-823765-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

A the end of the fourteenth century, Norway, having previously been an independent kingdom, became by conquest a province of Denmark and remained so for three centuries. In1814, as part of the fall-out from the Napoleonic wars, the country became a largely independent nation within the monarchy of Sweden. By this time, however, Danish had become the language of government, commerce, and education, as well as of the middle and upper classes. Nationalistic Norwegians sought to reestablish native identity by creating and promulgating a new language based partly on rural dialects and partly on Old Norse. The upper and middle classes sought to retain a form of Norwegian close to Danish that would be intelligible to themselves and to their neighbours in Sweden and Denmark. The controversy has gone on ever since. One result is that the standard dictionaries of Norwegian ignore pronunciation, for no version can be counted as 'received'. Another is that there has been considerable variety and change in Norwe

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristoffersen, Gjert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Segments: Inventory and Feature Specifications

- 3: Phonotactic Constraints

- 4: Word Phonology

- 5: Syllable Structure

- 6: Stress Assignment in Simplex Words

- 7: Cyclic Stress Assignment

- 8: Cyclic Syllabification

- 9: Tonal Accents

- 10: Intonation and Rhythm

- 11: Postlexical Segmental Phonology

- 12: Orthographic Conventions

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Gjert Kristoffersen is Professor of Nordic Languages at the University of Bergen, and was from 1984-1988 the Editor at the Norwegian University Press.