Sverre Stausland Johnsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sverre Stausland Johnsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sverre Stausland |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnsen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSEN S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The origin of the Proto-Indo-European nominal plural ending *-ōs
Under the view that Proto-Indo-European (PIE) formed its nominal plural forms by adding the plural marker *-s to the case suffix, the ‘expected’ nom.pl. ending in thematic stems would be *-oss, in which the plural marker *-s is added to the nom.sg. ending *-os. By Szemerényi’s law, such an original ending *-oss would give *-ōs with simplification of the final *-ss and lengthening of the preceding vowel. Since the postulated development of *-oss t…
Grammaticalization in Somali and the development of morphological tone
We demonstrate how grammaticalization may cause the restructuring of prosodic systems, leading to the development of new prosodic types. Illustrated with data from Northern Somali and related varieties, we show how a restricted tone system has developed into one of morphological tone through grammaticalization of independent words to bound forms. Diachronic change has weakened the “accentual” properties of the High tone in Somali, and the tone p…
Dialect change in South-East Norway and the role of attitude in diffusion
A common claim in the literature is that the local dialects in South-East Norway are being leveled towards the dialect of the upper social classes in Oslo. A meta-analysis of previous studies on dialect change in this region demonstrates that this assertion is incorrect, and that linguistic features have diffused from the dialect of thelowersocial classes in Oslo. Attitude studies show that people in South-East Norway have strongly negative views…
The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes
A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness
Norwegian retroflexion exhibits some phonetic properties that do not seem to ‘make sense’. In Standard East Norwegian, an alveolar /ɾ/ causes a following alveolar coronal to become postalveolar, and in the Frogner and Arendal dialects of Norwegian, the same postalveolarisation process is triggered by a uvular /ʁ/. Comparative analyses of Norwegian dialects reveal that these properties are the results of historical changes and phonological diffusi…
Variation in Norwegian retroflexion
A phonological process in Norwegian takes morpheme-initial alveolar /t d n s/ to retroflex [ʈ ɖ ɳ ʂ] after a morpheme ending in the tap /ɾ/, a process which earlier descriptions in the literature have classified as obligatory. This paper reports on production experiments with both existing and novel words, which show that Norwegian speakers treat retroflexion of morpheme-initial /s/ as optional, and that they are more likely to apply retroflexion…
From perception to phonology
Neighborhood Density in Phonological Alternations
in lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Neighborhood density (ND) is a measure of how similar a word is to other words in the lexicon. In response to the growing evidence of the significance of ND for word identification and word production, linguists have started asking what role ND could play in phonological alternations, without reaching a consensus. This paper assesses the role of ND in a phonological alternation in Norwegian, by aski…
Dialect change in South-East Norway and the role of attitude in diffusion
A common claim in the literature is that the local dialects in South-East Norway are being leveled towards the dialect of the upper social classes in Oslo. A meta-analysis of previous studies on dialect change in this region demonstrates that this assertion is incorrect, and that linguistic features have diffused from the dialect of thelowersocial classes in Oslo. Attitude studies show that people in South-East Norway have strongly negative views…
The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes
From perception to phonology
Neighborhood Density in Phonological Alternations
in lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Neighborhood density (ND) is a measure of how similar a word is to other words in the lexicon. In response to the growing evidence of the significance of ND for word identification and word production, linguists have started asking what role ND could play in phonological alternations, without reaching a consensus. This paper assesses the role of ND in a phonological alternation in Norwegian, by aski…
A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness
Norwegian retroflexion exhibits some phonetic properties that do not seem to ‘make sense’. In Standard East Norwegian, an alveolar /ɾ/ causes a following alveolar coronal to become postalveolar, and in the Frogner and Arendal dialects of Norwegian, the same postalveolarisation process is triggered by a uvular /ʁ/. Comparative analyses of Norwegian dialects reveal that these properties are the results of historical changes and phonological diffusi…
Variation in Norwegian retroflexion
A phonological process in Norwegian takes morpheme-initial alveolar /t d n s/ to retroflex [ʈ ɖ ɳ ʂ] after a morpheme ending in the tap /ɾ/, a process which earlier descriptions in the literature have classified as obligatory. This paper reports on production experiments with both existing and novel words, which show that Norwegian speakers treat retroflexion of morpheme-initial /s/ as optional, and that they are more likely to apply retroflexion…
From perception to phonology
The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes
Dialect change in South-East Norway and the role of attitude in diffusion
A common claim in the literature is that the local dialects in South-East Norway are being leveled towards the dialect of the upper social classes in Oslo. A meta-analysis of previous studies on dialect change in this region demonstrates that this assertion is incorrect, and that linguistic features have diffused from the dialect of thelowersocial classes in Oslo. Attitude studies show that people in South-East Norway have strongly negative views…
The origin of the Proto-Indo-European nominal plural ending *-ōs
Under the view that Proto-Indo-European (PIE) formed its nominal plural forms by adding the plural marker *-s to the case suffix, the ‘expected’ nom.pl. ending in thematic stems would be *-oss, in which the plural marker *-s is added to the nom.sg. ending *-os. By Szemerényi’s law, such an original ending *-oss would give *-ōs with simplification of the final *-ss and lengthening of the preceding vowel. Since the postulated development of *-oss t…
Grammaticalization in Somali and the development of morphological tone
We demonstrate how grammaticalization may cause the restructuring of prosodic systems, leading to the development of new prosodic types. Illustrated with data from Northern Somali and related varieties, we show how a restricted tone system has developed into one of morphological tone through grammaticalization of independent words to bound forms. Diachronic change has weakened the “accentual” properties of the High tone in Somali, and the tone p…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · History (5 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)