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SUMMARY
This paper reports on an experimental phonetic survey of consonantal length in
southem and northem pronunciation of Icelandic. Southem pronunciation refers to
l*te „soft pronunciation" of the Icelandic plosives [p, t, k, c], indicating that they are
unaspirated when preceded by a long vowel. Northem pronunciation refers to the „hard
Pronunciation" of these plosives, indicating that they are aspirated when preceded by
a long vowel.
The study included 12 informants, 6 from the southem part of Iceland and the rest
fr°m the northem part. They were 24-30 years of age, all formerly or presently students
at the University of Iceland. All the informants that had the northem pronunciation had
llte „hard pronunciation" and most of them also had voiced pronunciation.
The research included five categories of consonants:
(1)1. Stops
a. short
b. long
c. preaspirated
II. The consonants l,m,n,r,s
a. short
b. long
The study is based on the analysis of 22 words embedded in the frame sentence „Ég
Segi orðið__________núna“ („I’m saying the word------------now“). Each of the 22
Sentences were typed on separate cards. The study only made use of disyllabic words
and the stressed syllable in each word was made up of a vowel and a consonant. In