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Nokkelord
konsonantutvikling, fonologisk konspirasjon, sonoritet, plosiver, segmentasjon, sor-
vestnorsk, hyperdialektisme - naboopposisjon, desonorisering, preaspirasjon, harð-
mæli/linmæli, sprákkontakt
Keywords
consonant change, historical conspiracy, sonority, plosives, segmentation, South West
Norwegian, hyperdialectism - neighbor opposition, desonorization, preaspiration,
harðmæli/linmæli, language contact
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to discuss some conspicuous parallel consonant de-
velopments between Icelandic (and for the most part also Faroese) and South West
Norwegian dialects in the light of a hypothesis set forth by Kristján Arnason (1990)
that these common innovations might be due to what he calls "a conspiracy for a stop
in the rhyme". This conspiracy is then what "explains" several cases where fricatives
and sonorants in post-vocalic position change into plosives (ch. 5): Some of these
changes may be very old - even Common Germanic (e.g. nð, Ið, ny > nd, Id, ng), the
younger ones, however, from late medieval times [e.g. rn, 11, nn > dn, dl, dn].
Particular attention is paid to the dialects in the area around the city of Bergen,
where some developments show influence from the urban vernacular (e.g. assimila-
tions like mb, nd > mm, nn), whereas other developments are in the same vein as in the
rural South West Norwegian dialects, in some cases even extending the tendencies
even further (e.g. mm > bm, which is restricted to the area around Bergen). These