New PDF release: The Phonology of Norwegian (The Phonology of the World's

By Gjert Kristoffersen

A the tip of the fourteenth century, Norway, having formerly been an autonomous nation, grew to become through conquest a province of Denmark and remained so for 3 centuries. In1814, as a part of the fall-out from the Napoleonic wars, the rustic grew to become a mostly self sufficient country in the monarchy of Sweden. via this time, even though, Danish had turn into the language of presidency, trade, and schooling, in addition to of the center and top periods. Nationalistic Norwegians sought to reestablish local identification by way of developing and promulgating a brand new language established in part on rural dialects and partially on outdated Norse. the higher and heart periods sought to preserve a kind of Norwegian as regards to Danish that might be intelligible to themselves and to their neighbours in Sweden and Denmark. the debate has long gone on ever considering the fact that. One result's that the normal dictionaries of Norwegian forget about pronunciation, for no model should be counted as 'received'. one other is that there was huge sort and alter in Norwegian over the past a hundred and eighty years, all of that's good documented. during this pioneering account of Norwegian phonology, Gjert Kristoffersen mines the proof to offer an unique research of the ways that the sounds and meanings of competing languages swap and evolve.

The ebook is written in the framework of generative phonology, using insights derived from Optimality concept. Its major, and winning, function is to offer the phonological method of Norwegian basically and concisely.

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