• The development of tonal dialects in the Scandinavian languages 

      Kristoffersen, Gjert (Conference lecture, 2004)
      This PPT-presentation, given at a conference in 2004, is an early version of the hypothesis that the origin of the North-Germanic tonal accents can be traced back to a difference in timing of an accentual high tone in mono- ...
    • Jamvektseffekten En fonetisk analyse av jamvekt i nordgudbrandsdalsdialekten 

      Kristoffersen, Gjert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007)
      Level stress (Norwegian: jamvekt) is a prosodic pattern found in Norwegian and Swedish dialects which have retained mono-moraic (short) root syllables from Old Norse. In disyllables with accent 2 and short initial root ...
    • Lenisering etter kort vokal: reliktfenomen eller opphav? 

      Kristoffersen, Gjert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Temaet for denne artikkelen er en liten gruppe dialekter der lenisering av p, t, k til b, d, g etter trykksterk vokal er begrenset til ord som hadde kort, trykksterk stavelse i norrønt. Disse dialektene finner vi ved kysten ...
    • Tonal variation and change in Dalarna Swedish 

      Kristoffersen, Gjert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This article questions the prevalent account of North Germanic tonogenesis, which proposes that at the outset, Accent 2 was characterized by a double-peaked melody close to the one found in central Swedish today (Riad 1998, ...
    • The tone bearing unit in Swedish and Norwegian tonology 

      Kristoffersen, Gjert (Chapter, 2003)
      In Scandinavian tonology two views exist with respect to how tones are associated with the segmental string. The first is the orthodox, autosegmental view that all tones are autosegmentally associated with a tone bearing ...
    • Tutti Frutti - Best said in an Inverness accent: A sociolinguistic variationist study of phonological variation and change in Inverness 

      Geijerstam, Erika Amdahl Af (Master thesis, 2018-06-01)
      I denne masteroppgaven har det blitt forsket på språkendring og -variasjon i Inverness, en liten by i det skotske høylandet. Denne sosiolingvistiske studien har særlig fokusert på å avdekke lingvistiske mønstre som korrelerer ...