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*^e dialect features under investigation (pure, mixed, absent). IP would
^ater join us on a couple of expeditions and make his own notes, com-
ments and suggestions. He was a very pleasant and useful companion
0n these trips but his untimely death prevented him ffom publishing
^arther studies on Icelandic dialects. Jón Aðalsteinn Jónsson, who ac-
c°mPanied BG as a student on an expedition in the 1940s, also joined
Us 0n one occasion. Since he had known BG and was familiar with
hls research methods, he provided an interesting and useful connec-
t!on between BG’s study and ours. We also had a chance to interview
t^e late Ólafur M. Ólafsson, who worked with Guðfinnsson on sev-
eral occasions and was furthermore one of the editors of Guðfinnsson
(1964).
^•2 The sound system and transcription used
Since we will be using phonetic transcription in the following sec-
hons, it is useful to give an overview of the phonological systems and
transcription symbols employed.
Front Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
High i (0 u (ú)
Mid t (i) Y (U)
Low e (e) œ (ö) a (a) o (o)
Liphthongs: ei (ei,ey), œi (au), ai (æ), ou (ó), au (á)
j. yowejs
Pirst, we will assume the vowel system illustrated in Table 1 (cf.
ainsson 1992). This system is organized in terms of phonological
atures and we use phonetic symbols to represent the vowels but give
typicsal orthographic representation in parentheses. Second, we assume
e system of consonants given in Table 2 (cf. Þráinsson 1992), where
use phonetic symbols and orthographic representation in the same
Way- -^lthough there are a number of controversies regarding the exact