The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese (The Phonology of the World's Languages)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Part I: The historical and theoretical setting......Page 18
1.1 The genetic relation: ‘Proto-West Nordic’......Page 20
1.2 West Nordic obstruents......Page 21
1.3 West Nordic sonorants......Page 23
1.4 West Nordic vowels......Page 24
1.6 Prosodic structure......Page 25
2 THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 28
2.1 Quantity and prosodic structure......Page 29
2.2 Overlong (superheavy) syllables and their development......Page 32
2.3 The components of the quantity shift......Page 34
2.4 Quality changes in the Icelandic vowel system......Page 37
2.5 Faroese vowel developments......Page 40
2.6 The short diphthongs......Page 42
2.7 The West Nordic consonant shift......Page 43
2.8 New postvocalic stops......Page 45
2.9 The skerping and hiatus......Page 48
2.10 Systemic arrangements and types of syllables......Page 50
3.1 Phonological levels of representation......Page 52
3.2 Alphabets for phonological representation......Page 56
3.3 The representation of time and precedence......Page 64
3.4 Saturation and fission in West Nordic diphthongs......Page 65
3.5 The modern diphthongal systems......Page 68
Part II: The modern sound systems......Page 72
4.1 The Icelandic vowel system......Page 74
4.2 The vowels of non-initial syllables......Page 83
5.1 An overview......Page 85
5.2 The phonetic and phonological analysis of the Faroese monophthongs and diphthongs......Page 91
5.3 More on dialect variation and vowel systems......Page 96
5.4 Hiatus phenomena in Faroese......Page 97
5.5 The unstressed vowels of Faroese......Page 103
6.1 An overview......Page 115
6.2 The stops......Page 116
6.3 The fricatives......Page 123
6.4 The sonorants......Page 126
6.5 Summary: the classes of consonants and their element analysis......Page 128
7.1 An overview......Page 131
7.2 The fortis and lenis plosives......Page 135
7.3 The fricatives......Page 139
7.5 The element analysis of the Faroese system......Page 141
Part III: Systemic relations and syllabic structure......Page 144
8.1 Trends towards a diasystem in Icelandic......Page 146
8.2 The Faroese vowel systems......Page 152
8.3 The element analysis of reduction: limits on information in restricted environments......Page 157
8.4 Conclusion: systemic relations in vowel systems......Page 159
9.1 Syllable structure in Icelandic......Page 161
9.2 Faroese syllables......Page 169
9.3 The consonantal phonotactics of Icelandic......Page 177
9.4 The consonantal phonotactics of Faroese......Page 190
9.5 Gemination of glides and consonants......Page 197
9.6 Conclusion: remarks on systemic structure and prominence......Page 199
10 LENGTH AND QUANTITY IN ACCENTUATION AND PHONOTACTICS......Page 202
10.1 Length and quantity in Icelandic......Page 203
10.2 The length rule on lexical and phonological levels in Icelandic......Page 220
10.3 The prosodic character of Faroese vowels......Page 225
10.4 Vowel shortness and the scale of prominence......Page 227
Part IV: Segments and syllables on phonological levels......Page 230
11 ASPIRATION IN SYLLABIC AND SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE......Page 232
11.1 Aspiration and the character of the fortis–lenis opposition......Page 233
11.2 Preaspiration in Icelandic......Page 236
11.3 Preaspiration in Faroese......Page 245
11.4 Representing the difference......Page 247
11.5 Preaspiration in morphophonemics......Page 248
12.1 Introduction......Page 251
12.2 Lexical and postlexical relations in paradigms......Page 252
12.3 Vocalic patterns in Icelandic......Page 255
12.4 Faroese vowel morphophonemics......Page 264
12.5 Consonantal patterns in Icelandic morphophonemics......Page 267
12.6 Consonantal patterns in Faroese......Page 269
12.7 Vowel deletion in paradigms......Page 270
12.8 Intersyllabic glides and fricatives in allomorphy......Page 274
12.9 Morphosyntax and phonology......Page 276
12.10 Conclusion......Page 282
Part V: Rhythmic structure......Page 286
13.1 Icelandic word stress patterns......Page 288
13.2 Word stress patterns in Faroese......Page 292
13.3 The accommodation of foreign stress patterns......Page 296
13.4 Morphological considerations: Faroese pseudo-morphology?......Page 299
14.1 Phonological phrasing......Page 302
14.2 Systematic exceptions......Page 303
14.3 Pragmatically motivated exceptions......Page 307
14.4 The phonological consequences of phrasing......Page 309
14.5 Demarcative signals......Page 317
14.6 Constituency and prominence......Page 320
15.1 Rhythm and constituency......Page 325
15.2 Icelandic intonation......Page 330
15.3 Faroese intonation......Page 341
15.4 The absence of word tones......Page 343
A note on phonetic data......Page 345
References......Page 346
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H......Page 361
M......Page 362
P......Page 363
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W......Page 365