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Variation in Norwegian retroflexion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2012

Sverre Stausland Johnsen
Sverre Stausland Johnsen*
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Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Postboks 1102 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway. stausland.johnsen@iln.uio.no
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Abstract

A phonological process in Norwegian takes morpheme-initial alveolar /t d n s/ to retroflex [ʈ ɖ ɳ ʂ] after a morpheme ending in the tap /ɾ/, a process which earlier descriptions in the literature have classified as obligatory. This paper reports on production experiments with both existing and novel words, which show that Norwegian speakers treat retroflexion of morpheme-initial /s/ as optional, and that they are more likely to apply retroflexion to a morpheme in /s-/ when the /s/ is followed by a consonant (/sC-/) than when the /s/ is followed by a vowel (/sV-/).

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Norwegian retroflexiononset complexityvariation

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , October 2012 , pp. 197 - 212
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2012

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