Analysis of a Sound Group: SL and TL in Norwegian

It has long been known that the distinction between sl and tl , which existed in Old Norse, has been lost in the modern dialects of Norway. In his Norsk Grammatik of 1864 Ivar Aasen wrote: these sounds generally become one, and are rarely distinguished with any precision. In southeastern Norway [søn...

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Published in:PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Main Author: Haugen, Einar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Modern Language Association (MLA) 1942
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/458776
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030812900200308