Icelandic regional pronunciation, attitudes and real-time change: Latest developments
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Finnur Friðriksson
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Ásgrímur Angantýsson
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Stefanie Bade
Abstract
In this paper we present selected results from the first data collection phase of the Regional Pronunciation, Attitudes and Real-Time Change (RePARC) research project together with results from two pilot studies that preceded the project. The article focuses on four regional variants of phonological variables, i.e., so-called hard speech and voiced pronunciation, which are primarily associated with the north-eastern part of Iceland, and so-called hv-pronunciation and monophthongal pronunciation, which are regarded as south-eastern features. Informants from two different age groups and three different regions (northern Iceland, southern Iceland, and a so-called neutral area) did a pronunciation test, listened to and gave their attitudinal responses to recordings of speech exhibiting features different from those of their own speech, and answered a questionnaire on their attitudes towards their own pronunciation variants. The results indicate that both voiced pronunciation and hv-pronunciation are fading out, while monophthongal pronunciation and, in particular, hard speech are maintained in their respective core areas. With regard to attitudes, it appears that participants generally consider speech that contains northern features to be clearer than speech that does not. Similarly, participants appear to find these northern features to be more easily recognisable, and at the same time, these features seem to be more closely linked to speakers’ self-identity than other regional features.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Current trends in Icelandic sociolinguistics: An introduction
- Perceived threats to the future of Icelandic and the importance of language acquisition research
- Folk perceptions and evaluations of L2-accented Icelandic with regard to pleasantness and correctness
- Icelandic on Facebook: Linguistic practices in an informal communication space
- Young Icelanders and popular culture: An empirical study of Anglicisms in conversation
- Language change across the lifespan: The changing status of a local variant
- Icelandic regional pronunciation, attitudes and real-time change: Latest developments
- Icelandic in late modernity: On language policy discourses, stylistic variation, and the fate of purism and standard language ideology
- Miscellaneous
- An interview with Ernst Håkon Jahr
- An interview with Leena Huss
- Reviews
- Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna, Höskuldur Thráinsson & Úlfar Bragason (eds.) (2023): Icelandic heritage in North America. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. 313 p.
