dc.contributor.author | Bye, Patrik | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-08T11:30:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-08T11:30:44Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-10-24T14:16:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bye, P. (2020). Expressive sibilant retraction in North Norwegian: Morpheme or ‘Spoken gesture’? Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1): 10. doi: | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2397-1835 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2661413 | |
dc.description.abstract | North Norwegian has a contrast between /s/ and /ʂ/ that is neutralized in word-initial position before a consonant, and an optional process of Expressive Sibilant Retraction (ESR), which changes /s/ to [ʂ] in precisely the environment where the contrast is neutralized (Broch 1927). ESR appears ambiguous between a word formation process and a spoken gesture (Okrent 2002; Perlman et al. 2015). On the one hand, ESR exploits givens of phonological structure. On the other, treating it as a morphological process entails claiming that the spell-out of certain (“expressive”) morphemes may take place after phonological processes have applied, or that the realization of these morphemes takes precedence to phonological constraints. I argue that ESR is a communicative (i.e. non-linguistic, or post-linguistic) spoken gesture that nonetheless exploits the suspension of phonological generalizations in a way that directs attention to its iconic function. I describe the varied interpretations that ESR has depending on whether it indexes an action/event, object, or state/property, and propose that these share a common semantic core. This gesture-based account of ESR is offered as a possible model for “expressive phonology” (e.g. Diffloth 1979) in other languages. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ubiquity Press | en_US |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Expressive sibilant retraction in North Norwegian : Morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’? | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2020 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018 | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 26 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 5 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Glossa: a journal of general linguistics | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5334/gjgl.850 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1740278 | |