Íslenskt mál og almenn málfræði - 01.01.1984, Síða 136

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Höskuldur Þráinsson og Kristján Arnason
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SUMMARY
This paper describes a few dialectal features in the speech of the population of
Reykjavík. The present findings are compared to those of the late dr. Björn
Guðfinnsson, who undertook an extensive dialectal study in Iceland in the early
forties. The main findings of the present paper are as follows:
1. The so-called harðmœli — i.e. the pronunciation of /p, t, k/ as aspirated
stops following long vowels — has not lost ground in Reykjavík in the last
40 years, despite the fact that this is perhaps the dialectal feature least fre-
quently associated with Reykjavík. There is some evidence that the older
generation has changed its pronunciation towards more harðmceli and that
there is positive correlation between education and harðmœli.
2. What is commonly referred to as flátnæli ‘slack-jawed speech’ was a quite
common dialectal feature in Reykjavík in the 1940s and involved most
noticeably the lowering of /i/ and /u/. This kind of flámceli is now very
rare but the raising of /ö/ can occasionally be found in the speech of the
younger generation.
3. The /iv-pronunciation (see Kristján Árnason & Höskuldur Þráinsson 1983) is
losing ground in Reykjavík — it is quite rare in the speech of the younger
generation. Interestingly, it is more common in male than in female speech.
4. Finally, as in the study of Kristján Árnason & Höskuldur Þráinsson 1983,
it was found that most of the assimilations and deletions investigated are
more common in the speech of the younger generation, again with the ex-
ception of the assimilation of nasals to following consonants.
Háskóla íslands,
Reykjavík