Norwegian pronunciation: length of stressed syllables

[@TheNorwegianSchool]

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[@ginnyvibes]

This same thing happens in Japanese too. When I heard it in Norwegian it didn't seem new at all.

[@TheNorwegianSchool]

Interesting! Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese.

[@sizzles48]

That is so helpful. Thank you!

[@TheNorwegianSchool]

Great to hear!

[@tonyf9984]

Thanks for this really enlightening explanation for the (hitherto) puzzling 'delayed' consonants in Norwegian syllables. It also casts light on a parallel phenomenon found in Icelandic, where in the same type of syllable the same pause occurs but is filled with a short /h/ sound (so-called pre-aspiration). I've tried to post a link to Forvo but my comment goes into a black hole, so just look up the phrase 'ekkert að þakka', which contains two examples, the second being the equivalent of 'takke' used in the video.

[@TheNorwegianSchool]

Interesting! Unfortunately I never learned Icelandic.

[@tonyf9984]

@@TheNorwegianSchool Just a hobby interest on my part ... but I did a bit of googling after watching your video and the consensus seems to be that pre-aspiration (in the few languages where it occurs, including Norwegian & Swedish dialects) is a feature of the vowel articulation and not of the following consonant (as the name would suggest). So the aspiration is actually a form of lengthening of short vowels - which suggests that Icelandic follows the selfsame stress rule as you've described for Norwegian (though I've not found this confirmed anywhere). And that does make historical sense too, given that Icelandic is in many ways the Daddy of Norwegian! Some very clear examples here on KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJeqiqKLa6ysgaM .

[@LordAssassinLych]

that is easy for slavs

[@TheNorwegianSchool]

Depends on which Slavic language you speak, I guess.