Convergence in historical phonetics: Stop contrasts in Åland and Iceland

Data from land on the phonetic realisations of stop contrasts show that similar historical developments have occurred in the geographically distinct regions of land and Iceland.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pétur Helgason
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.567
http://www.ling.umu.se/~anderse/SWEDIA/papers/helgason_fonetik2001.pdf
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Summary:Data from land on the phonetic realisations of stop contrasts show that similar historical developments have occurred in the geographically distinct regions of land and Iceland.