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SUMMARY
It is argued in this paper that the rules for alliteration in Icelandic verse can help
decide between competing phonological descriptions. More specifically, the fact
that words spelled with initial hj-lhl-lhn-lhr- alliterate with words beginning with
h- suggests that the former also have initial /h/ in a phonological representation
although many phoneticians claim that these words are not pronounced with an
initial [h]. The same goes for /zv-words in the so-called /zv-dialect of Icelandic,
whereas these words seem to have been reanalyzed as containing initial /kv/ in