Open AccessModern Icelandic preaspiration from the phonological point of view
Author(s) -
Janez Orešnik
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.18.1.141-166
Subject(s) - icelandic , vowel , linguistics , phonology , phonological rule , point (geometry) , mathematics , philosophy , geometry
The paper deals with the phonology of modern Icelandic preaspiration. The rule that produces the non-lexicalised cases of preaspiration before what is written as p, t, k + l, n is different for hardmadi and linmeli. The hard medi role generates preaspiration before an aspirated plosive + /1, n/. (The aspiration of the plosive is obliterated by a later deaspiration rule.) The linmaeli rule generates preaspiration before plosive + /l, n/ just in case there is at least one such form in the inflexional paradigm of the word-form to which the rule is to apply containing a long vowel immediately followed by a plosive (where the vowel and the plosive are those mentioned in the structural description of the preaspiration rule).