title: Guests and hosts on the sounds of modern Icelandic
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Liberman, Anatoly
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:38:26Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:38:26Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Liberman A. S. Guests and hosts on the sounds of modern Icelandic. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 2, pp. 277–292.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.206
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15270
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: For over a hundred and fifty years, foreign tourists have been sharing their
  impressions of Iceland: its geography, economy, culture, and, among other things,
  language. Foreigners’ impressions of a language new to them are not devoid of
  interest, for outsiders often hear the subphonemic nuances that native speakers miss
  by definition. They also make typical mistakes while assessing the pronunciation of
  a language they hear for the first time. Their observations add a special dimension to
  the traditional descriptions of this or that language. The present paper summarizes
  the notes on Icelandic vowels and consonants by English, German, and other tourists
  made during their stay in Iceland. Of equal interest is the advice given by the authors
  of Icelandic textbooks to foreigners planning to study Icelandic, and by foreigners,
  sometimes trained philologists, who warn their prospective readers of the main
  difficulties of Icelandic phonetics. The survey offered here must be fairly complete,
  because it is based on the rich collections of books in the Fiske collection (Cornell
  University, USA) and the two great libraries in Reykjavík. Special emphasis has been
  laid on the most “exotic” features of the Icelandic phonemic system: devoiced /b d g/,
  devoiced /l m n r/ before /p t k/, preaspiration, and the pronunciation of [i:] and
  the diphthongs, of which short [ou] creates especially great difficulties to foreigners.
  The importance of foreigners’ observations has been once discussed by an Icelandic
  researcher, but a full-length survey of this type appears for the first time.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Icelandic phonetics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: impressions by and advice to foreigners
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: devoicing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: preaspiration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: short diphthongs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Guests and hosts on the sounds of modern Icelandic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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