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dc.contributor.advisorLundquist, Bjørn
dc.contributor.advisorKrämer, Martin
dc.contributor.authorPiliavets, Hanna
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-05T14:14:12Z
dc.date.available2021-11-05T14:14:12Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-15
dc.description.abstractRetroflexion at the junction of words is an optional process. Numerous previous works devoted to this topic analysed the process of retroflexion based on researcher’s intuition or examining the behaviour of retroflexes in an artificially created environment in laboratory conditions. In this work, the retroflexion of rhotic-plus-sibilant sequences at word junctions is observed in the natural spontaneous speech of speakers of Northern Norwegian dialects. It investigates how the speaker's age, place, dialectal area, lexical element, syllabic structure, syntactic category, lexical and phrasal stress, and speech planning affect the application of retroflexion. A database containing excerpts from the speech of speakers of Northern Norwegian dialects was compiled specifically for this study. Selected phrases contain words with rhotic-plus-sibilant sequences at the junction. Statistical analysis in R and comparative analyzes were used to study the triggering environment for retroflexion at the word boundaries. The results showed the influence of the speaker's age, place, county, the chosen lexical unit in the second position, frequency of collocations, speech planning and the number of syllables in the second word on the application of retroflexion. While the influence of the dialect area turned out to be small, and the influence of stress and syntactic category was not confirmed. The significance of the performance was also found. Results suggest that older speakers, who take more pauses in speech and speak more slowly, do not plan sets of words in tandem, and often violate the phonological distance, which causes failing retroflexion at the word boundaries. Younger speakers in general use retroflexes in speech more actively. Key words: retroflexion, retroflex, phonology, speech planning.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22941
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDLIN-3990
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Nordic languages: 018en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018en_US
dc.titleRetroflexion of rhotic-plus-sibilant sequences at word junctions in Northern Norwegian dialectsen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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