Old Norse and Norwegian “frændi/frende” is not limited to male relatives, but can mean any relative.
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Old Norse and Norwegian “frændi/frende” is not limited to male relatives, but can mean any relative.
Scandinavian “fri” is a borrowing from Low German.
The regular pl of “book” would be “beech”, not “beek”. And “week” has nothing to do with the OE foot-feet declension - “week” is the original sg. And compounds don’t use the pl as first element -no one says “books weeks greetings” just because the last element is pl. Sorry for the pedantic reply :-/
This is why I manually enter all work related appointments into my personal calendar.
Btw, when I was vice chair of the dpt (our dpts are much bigger here, btw), they provided me with a phone, since I needed to be reachable also when I wasn’t seated in front of my computer in my office.
So they provided me with a code chip instead. I know there’s one other person like me. My stance is that if we’re required to use our phone to do our job, our employer should provide us with a phone.
At my university, we need two factor authentication for almost anything, and 99% of faculty use their personal smartphone for authentication, either through an app or through SMS (not sure). But as a matter of principle, I refuse to use my private phone in order to do my job.
Wait, what? Your employer requires you to install certain apps on your private phone? What if an employee doesn’t have a smartphone?
I think I may have asked you before, but what’s the evidence that /r/ was velarized and possibly an [ɹ]?
As a non-native speaker who makes a quantity distinction (possibly a small quality difference too), I definitely have the same contrast as you between ‘bicep’ and ‘bicycle’. Since I’ve picked this up, I guess it’s more or less universal?
3 new papers-download all from sverrestausland.github.io
(1) W/ Maria Evjen & @timoroettger.bsky.social: "Investigating potential MERGED and DISTINCT speakers in an ongoing merger" in @labphon.bsky.social
(2) Likskapen millom norsk og færøysk
(3) Norsk busetjing på Færøyarne etter svartedauden
Can we reliably identify MERGED vs. DISTINCT speakers during ongoing sound change? #Acoustics + #perception data from #Norwegian /ʃ, ç/ show that a principled boundary between speaker groups does not exist. doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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I know a linguist whose English has precisely these bilabial trills as allophones of /p/. It's an idiolect, of course.
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Nina Hagen Kaldhol and I have a chapter entitled "There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali" in the book "Synchronic and diachronic approaches to tonal accent", edited by @anghyflawn.net and Björn Köhnlein.
Preprint: sverrestausland.github.io/publication_...
Thanks! This looks like an interesting article, and I will read it. It might be a bit too narrow for the purpose of the BA course, but I might use it elsewhere.
Phonology hivemind: For a BA course, I want to assign a paper that lays out the essentialist vs. emergentist debate for phonology, in practice markedness vs. functionalism/evolution. The paper that first comes to mind is Kiparsky 2006 in Theoretical Linguistics. Any other suggestions?
I notice that the version installed on our university computers is 2020, so I guess that explains it.
I haven’t noticed any changes in Acrobat Reader?
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Norwegian dialects have both 'klein' and 'klen', btw.
The North Germanic variants 'klein' and 'klen' are probably the result of borrowing the word several times from Low German varieties with and without a diphthong.