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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| The historical and theoretical setting | |
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| The Two Languages and their Historical Relation | |
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| The genetic relation: 'Proto-West Nordic' | |
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| West Nordic obstruents | |
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| West Nordic sonorants | |
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| West Nordic vowels | |
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| Diphthongs and semivowels | |
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| Prosodic structure | |
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| The Historical Development | |
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| Quantity and prosodic structure | |
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| Overlong (superheavy) syllables and their development | |
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| The components of the quantity shift | |
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| Quality changes in the Icelandic vowel system | |
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| Faroese vowel developments | |
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| The short diphthongs | |
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| The West Nordic consonant shift | |
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| New postvocalic stops | |
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| The skerping and hiatus | |
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| Systemic arrangements and types of syllables | |
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| Theoretical Preliminaries to the Synchronic Analysis | |
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| Phonological levels of representation | |
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| Alphabets for phonological representation | |
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| Segments and distinctions | |
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| Phonological primes | |
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| Analysing diphthongization | |
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| The representation of time and precedence | |
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| Saturation and fission in West Nordic diphthongs | |
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| The modern diphthongal systems | |
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| The modern sound systems | |
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| The Icelandic Vowel Colours and Diphthongs | |
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| The Icelandic vowel system | |
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| The monophthongal units | |
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| The phonetic description of the vowel sounds | |
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| Analysing the monophthongal colours | |
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| The diphthongs as branching phonemic units | |
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| Diphthongs and hiatus | |
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| The vowels of non-initial syllables | |
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| Faroese Vowels and Diphthongs | |
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| An overview | |
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| The inventory of vowels | |
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| The 'long' and 'short' systems | |
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| The phonetic and phonological analysis of the Faroese monophthongs and diphthongs | |
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| The vowel qualities | |
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| Analysing the Faroese diphthongs | |
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| More on dialect variation and vowel systems | |
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| Hiatus phenomena in Faroese | |
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| Intervocalic glides | |
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| Raising in hiatus | |
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| One or two syllables | |
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| The unstressed vowels of Faroese | |
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| The vowel qualities | |
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| The syllable types | |
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| Dialects and morphology in unstressed vowel merger | |
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| The postlexical reduction and syncope | |
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| Coping with the variation: a folk-linguistic anecdote from T�rshavn | |
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| Icelandic Consonants | |
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| An overview | |
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| The stops | |
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| Places of articulation | |
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| On palatals and velars | |
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| The fortis-lenis opposition | |
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| The fricatives | |
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| The sonorants | |
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| Summary: the classes of consonants and their element analysis | |
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| Faroese Consonant Segments | |
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| An overview | |
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| The fortis and lenis plosives | |
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| The phonological correlation | |
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| 'Hard' and 'soft' dialects in Faroese | |
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| The fricatives | |
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| Initial fricatives | |
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| Word-internal fricatives and glides | |
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| Sonorants | |
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| The element analysis of the Faroese system | |
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| Systemic relations and syllabic structure | |
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| Systemic Relations in Vowels | |
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| Trends towards a diasystem in Icelandic | |
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| The 'new' diphthongs | |
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| A context-free merger in the 'long' system | |
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| The interplay of merger and diphthongization | |
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| The 'long/open' and 'short/closed' correspondence | |
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| The Faroese vowel systems | |
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| The polysystemic structure | |
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| On prominence | |
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| The element analysis of reduction: limits on information in restricted environments | |
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| Conclusion: systemic relations in vowel systems | |
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| Syllable Structure and Phonotactics | |
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| Syllable structure in Icelandic | |
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| Motivating the syllable | |
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| The subsyllabic constituents | |
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| The Icelandic length rule | |
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| Half length and overlength | |
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| Emphatic stress on non-initial syllables | |
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| Faroese syllables | |
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| The length rule in Faroese | |
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| The template for full syllables in Faroese | |
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| Half length and overlength in Faroese | |
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| Full syllables and restricted syllables in the phonological hierarchy | |
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| The consonantal phonotactics of Icelandic | |
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| Initial onsets in Icelandic | |
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| Consonants in the Icelandic coda | |
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| Internal onsets in Icelandic | |
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| More complicated interludes in Icelandic | |
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| The consonantal phonotactics of Faroese | |
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| Monosegmental onsets | |
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| Initial clusters in Faroese | |
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| Faroese coda consonants | |
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| Internal onsets in Faroese | |
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| Gemination of glides and consonants | |
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| Conclusion: remarks on systemic structure and prominence | |
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| Length and Quantity in Accentuation and Phonotactics | |
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| Length and quantity in Icelandic | |
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| Some distinctions | |
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| Segmental length and syllabic structure | |
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| Length in postlexical accentuation | |
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| Representing length and quantity | |
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| Excursus: A brief comparison with Finland Swedish | |
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| The length rule on lexical and phonological levels in Icelandic | |
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| Length and syllabification | |
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| Two versions of the rule | |
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| The prosodic character of Faroese vowels | |
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| Vowel shortness and the scale of prominence | |
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| Segments and syllables on phonological levels | |
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| Aspiration in Syllabic and Segmental Structure | |
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| Aspiration and the character of the fortis-lenis opposition | |
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| Representing the opposition | |
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| Phonotactic or phonetic neutralization of the fortis-lenis opposition? | |
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| Preaspiration in Icelandic | |
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| The phonetic character | |
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| The distribution of preaspiration in Icelandic | |
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| Phonological analysis | |
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| Related phenomena | |
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| Preaspiration in Faroese | |
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| Representing the difference | |
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| Preaspiration in morphophonemics | |
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| Allomorphy, Morphophonemics, and Phonological Levels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lexical and postlexical relations in paradigms | |
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| Vocalic patterns in Icelandic | |
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| The ablaut series | |
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| I-umlaut | |
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| U-umlaut and breaking | |
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| Morphology and phonotactics in vocalic alternation | |
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| Faroese vowel morphophonemics | |
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| Ablaut | |
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| Umlaut | |
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| Consonantal patterns in Icelandic morphophonemics | |
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| Consonantal patterns in Faroese | |
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| Vowel deletion in paradigms | |
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| Intersyllabic glides and fricatives in allomorphy | |
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| Morphosyntax and phonology | |
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| Lexical and postlexical principles | |
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| Clitics | |
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| Fossilized and non-fossilized patterns in Faroese | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rhythmic structure | |
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| Word Stress Patterns in Icelandic and Faroese | |
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| Icelandic word stress patterns | |
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| Native patterns | |
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| Foreign patterns in recent loans | |
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| Word stress patterns in Faroese | |
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| Native words | |
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| Loanwords in Faroese | |
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| The accommodation of foreign stress patterns | |
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| Right-strong forms in Icelandic | |
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| The Faroese patterns | |
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| Morphological considerations: Faroese pseudo-morphology? | |
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| Phrasing and Postlexical Phonology | |
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| Phonological phrasing | |
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| Systematic exceptions | |
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| Deaccenting of weak morphosyntactic categories | |
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| Deaccenting in Icelandic definite noun phrases | |
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| Pragmatically motivated exceptions | |
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| Emphatic rephrasing | |
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| Contrast, focus, and given information | |
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| The phonological consequences of phrasing | |
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| Cohesive laws or sandhi-rules in Icelandic | |
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| Sandhi in Faroese | |
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| Rhythmic rearrangement | |
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| Demarcative signals | |
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| Stress and glottal onset | |
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| Right hand signals in Icelandic | |
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| Demarcative signals in Faroese | |
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| Constituency and prominence | |
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| Boundaries or dependencies? | |
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| Domains, directionality, and prominence | |
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| Rhythm and Intonation | |
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| Rhythm and constituency | |
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| Icelandic intonation | |
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| The tonal inventory | |
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| Downstep and upstep | |
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| Functional considerations | |
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| Faroese intonation | |
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| The absence of word tones | |
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| A note on phonetic data | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |