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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785375003321

Autore

Wetterlin Allison

Titolo

Tonal accents in Norwegian [[electronic resource] ] : phonology, morphology and lexical specification / / Allison Wetterlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-88504-9

9786612885044

3-11-023438-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 535

Classificazione

GW 2150

Disciplina

439.8215

Soggetti

Tone (Phonetics)

Norwegian language - Accents and accentuation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Scandinavian tonal word accent -- 3. Morphemes and tones : a historical survey -- 4. A novel approach to specify tone -- 5. Compounds and tones : previous and present analyses -- 6. Loans and lexically specified Accent 1 -- 7. Tonal alignment in East Norwegian dialect -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more simplex and unified morphophonological analysis of word accents in North Germanic. It gives the facts of accent distribution in Standard East Norwegian, discusses how three of the more recent and most important analyses of accent assignment in Norwegian and Swedish deal with these facts and provides an alternative analysis. Given that many Accent 1 words are loans, the book also discusses how loanword incorporated in East Norwegian and other North Germanic dialects and the question of why loans predominantly bear Accent 1.Although the focus of the book is word accent assignment in Standard East Norwegian, it also refers to Central Swedish and Old Norse. In this way, it accounts for many aspects of accent assignment, the true nature of which might have gone undetected had only one of the North Germanic



language been taken  into consideration.The book also dedicates one chapter to the phonetics of the tonal contrast. Addressing the question of how perceptually salient  the tonal contrast is.