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What are partially voiced stops (as in Danish)?
Danish has no voiced plosives but two series of voiceless plosives, aspirated and unaspirated. These are typically transcribed with <p, t, k; b, d, ɡ> rather than the more phonetically ...
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Could Danish, Swedish and Norwegian theoretically be counted as dialects of the same language?
Classification of something as a language or dialect is a socio-political decision, so to decide whether Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian should be separate dialects or separate languages or even not ...
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Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?
Regarding blade, kage and måle, I have nothing to add to Nardog’s answer, except to note that among younger speakers, the schwa-assimilation that takes place in kage is more likely to yield what would ...
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Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?
There are quite a few conventions for transcription of Danish, and none of them correspond exactly to the standard IPA because (without employing a ton of diacritics) the IPA doesn't provide enough ...
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Transcription of this computer-generated pronunciation of 1991 in Danish
I’ll refer to the two versions you’ve recorded as recording A (“1991” written in numbers) and recording B (“nitten hundrede og en-og-halvfems”) for simplicity.
Of these two, A is the more accurate of ...
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What grammatical features should we assign to the Danish superlative forms -st and -ste?
Your confusion seems to be coming from the fact that it's unidiomatic for superlative adjectives to be attributive to indefinite nouns. This is the same in English.
*a greatest man
*en størst mand
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Similarity between Norwegian and Danish compared to other languages?
The map question is apparently based on this, where the conclusions (apparently) are based on lexicostatistical computation. This probably does allow you to say compare the relatedness-numbers for ...
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How can I distinguish modern Scandinavian languages at a glance?
The Twitter user incunabula tweeted (https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1560597822151356416) a diagram with an algorithm to distinguish between European languages. The feature that - in this ...
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Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?
The best way to approach this problem is to get Hans Basbøll's The Phonology of Danish: he provides good IPA transcriptions of various degrees of minuteness along with spelling.
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What grammatical features should we assign to the Danish superlative forms -st and -ste?
Det Centrale Ordregister (COR, The Danish Central Word Registry) published by Dansk Sprognævn at https://ordregister.dk/ now has the grammatical features indicated. For 'stor' the entries for the ...
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