A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/
The number of Icelanders lacking the distinction between /ɛ:/ and /ɪ:/, and between /ɶ:/ and /ʏ:/ is decreasing. Since Guðfinnsson’s study (1964), and up to Árnason and Þráinsson’s study (Árnason and Pind 2005), speakers found in the capital region, and in eastern Iceland, are maintaining the distin...
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ftunivlundojs:oai:journals.lub.lu.se:article/19773 2023-05-15T16:47:25+02:00 A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ Hilmarsdóttir, Guðlaug 2019-06-27 application/pdf https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/19773 eng eng Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/19773/17859 https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/19773 Working papers / Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics; Vol. 55 (2015); 57-62 Working papers / Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics; Vol 55 (2015); 57-62 0280-526X info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftunivlundojs 2022-05-01T08:16:04Z The number of Icelanders lacking the distinction between /ɛ:/ and /ɪ:/, and between /ɶ:/ and /ʏ:/ is decreasing. Since Guðfinnsson’s study (1964), and up to Árnason and Þráinsson’s study (Árnason and Pind 2005), speakers found in the capital region, and in eastern Iceland, are maintaining the distinction between the rounded, and between the unrounded vowel phonemes to a greater degree. This study serves to test the proposition from the previous researches. Overall results show that the participants in eastern Iceland have a mixed pronunciation, i.e. the participants partly lack the distinction between /ɛ:/ and /ɪ:/, and between /ɶ:/ and /ʏ:/, and partly maintain it. The mergers result in sounds close to /e:/ and /ø:/ respectively. This was also the case with the speakers from the capital region. Overall, the lack of distinction was less apparent amongst the young speakers from the East than in the capital region. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Open Journals at Lund University (OJLU) |
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The number of Icelanders lacking the distinction between /ɛ:/ and /ɪ:/, and between /ɶ:/ and /ʏ:/ is decreasing. Since Guðfinnsson’s study (1964), and up to Árnason and Þráinsson’s study (Árnason and Pind 2005), speakers found in the capital region, and in eastern Iceland, are maintaining the distinction between the rounded, and between the unrounded vowel phonemes to a greater degree. This study serves to test the proposition from the previous researches. Overall results show that the participants in eastern Iceland have a mixed pronunciation, i.e. the participants partly lack the distinction between /ɛ:/ and /ɪ:/, and between /ɶ:/ and /ʏ:/, and partly maintain it. The mergers result in sounds close to /e:/ and /ø:/ respectively. This was also the case with the speakers from the capital region. Overall, the lack of distinction was less apparent amongst the young speakers from the East than in the capital region. |
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A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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A change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern Icelandic: An acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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change in the openness of two vowel phoneme pairs in eastern icelandic: an acoustic analysis of /ɶ:/ vs. /ʏ:/, and /ɛ:/ vs. /ɪ:/ |
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Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University |
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Working papers / Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics; Vol. 55 (2015); 57-62 Working papers / Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics; Vol 55 (2015); 57-62 0280-526X |
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https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/19773/17859 https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/19773 |
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