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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and changeEdited by Janne Bondi Johannessen † and Joseph C. Salmons
[Studies in Language Variation 18] 2015
► pp. 97–116
Heritage Language Obstruent Phonetics and Phonology
American Norwegian and Norwegian-American English
Brent Allen | University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joseph C. Salmons | University of Wisconsin–Madison
This chapter explores the acoustics and phonology of speech sounds produced by Norwegian heritage speakers in the Upper Midwest in Norwegian and to a lesser extent in English. The study reports work on acoustic differences in obstruents spoken by heritage speakers whose L1 and L2 are both ‘aspiration’ languages, namely Norwegian and American English, but which differ phonologically in other ways. Our focus falls in particular on laryngeal features, that is, the realization of the distinction between ‘voiced’ and ‘voiceless’ or ‘lenis’ and ‘fortis’ consonants, along with the closely related issue of durational contrasts in Norwegian. Building on Allen and Salmons (2012), we argue that the Norwegian and English spoken by Norwegian-American bilinguals will each show influence from the other language, but asymmetrically.
Keywords: aspiration, duration, laryngeal phonetics, laryngeal phonology, passive voicing, sonorant devoicing
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Published online: 20 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.18.04all
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.18.04all
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