Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 984000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar Ólafur Hansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar Ólafur |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSSON G Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7955-5572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic
The feature [+spread glottis] ([+s.g.]) denotes that a speech sound is produced with a wide glottal aperture with audible voiceless airflow. Icelandic is unusual in the degree to which [+spread glottis] is involved in the phonology: in /h/, pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops, voiceless fricatives and voiceless sonorants. The ubiquitousness of the feature could potentially affect the rate and process of its acquisition. This paper investigates…
Social Change by Compromise
The article raises the question of how a person argues for social change by compromise. The study is about the leading theorist of the reformist Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP), Ernst Wigforss, and how he argues for a compromise in the relations between capital and labour. My hypothesis is that social change is argued as necessary, possible, and desirable. The guiding idea for the analysis is to use Quentin Skinner’s understanding of politi…
Long-Distance Phonotactics as Tier-Based Strictly 2-Local Languages
This paper shows that the properties of locality observed for patterns of long-distance consonant agreement and disagreement belong to a well-defined and relatively simple class of subregular formal languages (stringsets) called the Tier-based Strictly 2-Local languages, and argues that analyzing them as such has desirable theoretical implications. Specifically, treating the two elements of a long-distance dependency as adjacent segments on the c…
Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns
Phonological systems show clear signs of being shaped by phonetics. Sound patterns are overwhelmingly phonetically 'natural', in that they reflect the influence of physical constraints on speech production and perception, and categorical phonological processes often mirror low-level gradient phonetic effects. The question of how best to explain and model the influence of phonetics on phonology has been approached in different ways, one of which s…
On the evolution of consonant harmony
Consonant harmony involves long-distance featural assimilation, or agreement, of consonants across intervening segments. Current correspondence-based analyses of such sound patterns assume that they originate in the cognitive exigencies of articulatory planning, either synchronically, through the functional grounding of the constraints responsible, or diachronically, whereby processing factors incrementally shape the lexicon over time. This paper…
Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence
March 01 2007 Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence In Special Collection: CogNet Gunnar Ólafur Hansson Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (2): 395–…
Long-Distance Voicing Agreement
Anti-Homophony Effects in Dakelh (Carrier) Valence Morphology
In Dakelh (Carrier), as in many other Athapaskan languages, valence prefixes and “inner subject” prefixes interact in a complex pattern involving a combination of consonant deletion and/or fusion and, in certain conditions, what looks like epenthesis. In this paper we investigate this apparent epenthesis effect, which is otherwise unexpected in this environment in Dakelh and is problematic in several aspects (Gessner 2003). We propose that the ep…
Laryngeal licensing and laryngeal neutralization in Faroese and Icelandic
In Icelandic, and in most dialects of Faroese, the fundamental laryngeal stop contrast is one of aspiration. This contrast is neutralized in certain positions, following patterns which appear problematic for perceptually-based theories (licensing by cue). In postvocalic onset position, a cue-rich environment, the contrast is absent in Icelandic. Most dialects neutralize to unaspirated [p, t, k], whereas others have postaspirated [p h , t h , k h …
Remains of a submerged continent
Readers Responding - and Then
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Bible Reading in Sweden
Further Implications of the IEA Studies in the Mother Tongue
The students in Swedish comprehensive high schools are, in relation to the socially and economically more privileged students, linguistically, academically, and attitudinally handicapped; and Swedish educators have apparently not been a great deal more successful in remediating the handicaps of their environmentally disadvantaged students than have American educators. During the last 25 years Sweden has made a series of school reforms, changing a…
Some Types of Research on Response to Literature
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Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence
March 01 2007 Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence In Special Collection: CogNet Gunnar Ólafur Hansson Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (2): 395–…
Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns
Phonological systems show clear signs of being shaped by phonetics. Sound patterns are overwhelmingly phonetically 'natural', in that they reflect the influence of physical constraints on speech production and perception, and categorical phonological processes often mirror low-level gradient phonetic effects. The question of how best to explain and model the influence of phonetics on phonology has been approached in different ways, one of which s…
Some Types of Research on Response to Literature
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Further Implications of the IEA Studies in the Mother Tongue
The students in Swedish comprehensive high schools are, in relation to the socially and economically more privileged students, linguistically, academically, and attitudinally handicapped; and Swedish educators have apparently not been a great deal more successful in remediating the handicaps of their environmentally disadvantaged students than have American educators. During the last 25 years Sweden has made a series of school reforms, changing a…
Bible Reading in Sweden
Readers Responding - and Then
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Remains of a submerged continent
Laryngeal licensing and laryngeal neutralization in Faroese and Icelandic
In Icelandic, and in most dialects of Faroese, the fundamental laryngeal stop contrast is one of aspiration. This contrast is neutralized in certain positions, following patterns which appear problematic for perceptually-based theories (licensing by cue). In postvocalic onset position, a cue-rich environment, the contrast is absent in Icelandic. Most dialects neutralize to unaspirated [p, t, k], whereas others have postaspirated [p h , t h , k h …
Long-Distance Voicing Agreement
Anti-Homophony Effects in Dakelh (Carrier) Valence Morphology
In Dakelh (Carrier), as in many other Athapaskan languages, valence prefixes and “inner subject” prefixes interact in a complex pattern involving a combination of consonant deletion and/or fusion and, in certain conditions, what looks like epenthesis. In this paper we investigate this apparent epenthesis effect, which is otherwise unexpected in this environment in Dakelh and is problematic in several aspects (Gessner 2003). We propose that the ep…
On the evolution of consonant harmony
Consonant harmony involves long-distance featural assimilation, or agreement, of consonants across intervening segments. Current correspondence-based analyses of such sound patterns assume that they originate in the cognitive exigencies of articulatory planning, either synchronically, through the functional grounding of the constraints responsible, or diachronically, whereby processing factors incrementally shape the lexicon over time. This paper…
Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence
March 01 2007 Blocking Effects in Agreement by Correspondence In Special Collection: CogNet Gunnar Ólafur Hansson Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 Linguistic Inquiry (2007) 38 (2): 395–…
Diachronic Explanations of Sound Patterns
Phonological systems show clear signs of being shaped by phonetics. Sound patterns are overwhelmingly phonetically 'natural', in that they reflect the influence of physical constraints on speech production and perception, and categorical phonological processes often mirror low-level gradient phonetic effects. The question of how best to explain and model the influence of phonetics on phonology has been approached in different ways, one of which s…
Long-Distance Phonotactics as Tier-Based Strictly 2-Local Languages
This paper shows that the properties of locality observed for patterns of long-distance consonant agreement and disagreement belong to a well-defined and relatively simple class of subregular formal languages (stringsets) called the Tier-based Strictly 2-Local languages, and argues that analyzing them as such has desirable theoretical implications. Specifically, treating the two elements of a long-distance dependency as adjacent segments on the c…
Social Change by Compromise
The article raises the question of how a person argues for social change by compromise. The study is about the leading theorist of the reformist Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP), Ernst Wigforss, and how he argues for a compromise in the relations between capital and labour. My hypothesis is that social change is argued as necessary, possible, and desirable. The guiding idea for the analysis is to use Quentin Skinner’s understanding of politi…
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic
The feature [+spread glottis] ([+s.g.]) denotes that a speech sound is produced with a wide glottal aperture with audible voiceless airflow. Icelandic is unusual in the degree to which [+spread glottis] is involved in the phonology: in /h/, pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops, voiceless fricatives and voiceless sonorants. The ubiquitousness of the feature could potentially affect the rate and process of its acquisition. This paper investigates…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Phonology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)