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Sverre Stausland
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Professor of General Linguistics and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Oslo
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3 new papers-download all from sverrestausland.github.io
(1) W/ Maria Evjen & @timoroettger.bsky.social: "Investigating potential MERGED and DISTINCT speakers in an ongoing merger" in @labphon.bsky.social
(2) Likskapen millom norsk og færøysk
(3) Norsk busetjing på Færøyarne etter svartedauden
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October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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labphon.bsky.social
Can we reliably identify MERGED vs. DISTINCT speakers during ongoing sound change? #Acoustics + #perception data from #Norwegian /ʃ, ç/ show that a principled boundary between speaker groups does not exist. doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Investigating potential MERGED and DISTINCT speakers in an ongoing merger — Evidence from production and perception
This study investigates whether it is possible to use evidence from production and perception to identify different types of speakers in the study of the ongoing merger of /ʃ/ and /ç/ in Norwegian. Sp...
www.journal-labphon.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Me har tre ledige stillingar på vårt nye "Senter for norsk fagspråk i bruk" - to ph.d.-stillingar og éi postdok-stilling. Merk at søknadsfristen er 20. oktober!

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September 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Nina Hagen Kaldhol and I have a chapter entitled "There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali" in the book "Synchronic and diachronic approaches to tonal accent", edited by @anghyflawn.net and Björn Köhnlein.

Preprint: sverrestausland.github.io/publication_...
sverrestausland.github.io
June 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Phonology hivemind: For a BA course, I want to assign a paper that lays out the essentialist vs. emergentist debate for phonology, in practice markedness vs. functionalism/evolution. The paper that first comes to mind is Kiparsky 2006 in Theoretical Linguistics. Any other suggestions?
April 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Registration is now open for the conference Phonology in the Nordic Countries, hosted at the University of Oslo Feb. 20-21, 2025.

There is no conference fee, but please register by Feb. 1 if you intend to come! A preliminary program will be added soon.

fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/f...
FiNo 2025 – Registration and practical information
The registration for FiNo 2025 is now open. Please register by filling in this form. Please register as soon as possible, and by February 1st the latest. The conference takes place at the UiO Campu…
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January 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025.

www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...
Vacancies - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
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December 27, 2024 at 5:46 PM
We at the University of Oslo are hosting the conference Phonology in the Nordic Countries (FiNo) February 20-21, 2025. A call for abstracts is posted at the conference website, and the deadline is Nov 10: fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/f...
FiNo 2025 Call for abstracts
We are delighted to announce that the 10th Fonologi i Norden meeting will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo, 20th-21st of February 2025. We ...
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August 8, 2024 at 11:28 AM