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Long and Short in Icelandic Phonemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Kemp Malone
Kemp Malone*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University
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This paper is restricted to one feature of the Icelandic sound system: quantity in the structure of the syllable. Moreover, I am confining myself to strest syllables; quantity in unstrest syllables will not be taken up. My treatment of the material will be synchronic, current Icelandic alone being considered.

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Miscellanea
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Language , Volume 29 , Issue 1: January-March , March 1953, pp. 61 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 Linguistic Society of America

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1 For the term surgent see my Phonology of modern Icelandic 5, 6, and passim (1923). Here it will be enough to define the surgent of a syllable as the phoneme that coincides with the intensity peak.