Convergence in historical phonetics: Stop contrasts in land and Iceland
Data on the phonetic realisations of stop contrasts from a speaker from Southern Central land show that convergent historical developments in fortis stops have occurred in the geographically distinct regions of land and Iceland. The land data also provide examples of stops with simultaneous pre- and...
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.6767 http://www.ling.su.se/fon/perilus/2001_01.pdf |
| Summary: | Data on the phonetic realisations of stop contrasts from a speaker from Southern Central land show that convergent historical developments in fortis stops have occurred in the geographically distinct regions of land and Iceland. The land data also provide examples of stops with simultaneous pre- and postaspiration, which is highly unusual from a typological perspective. 1. |
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