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Lenition in North Sea Germanic
NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution, 2021Abstract Lenition, or postvocalic weakening of obstruents, occurred in several languages in North Sea Germanic. Although the main centers of Germanic lenition lie outside this region, in High German and Danish, systemic lenition took place in Low German, North Frisian, and Dutch.
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Level Stress in North Germanic
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2008This article is an investigation of the acoustic properties of the so-called level stress prosody still found in some varieties of North Germanic. Level stress occurs in disyllabic words where a light root syllable has been preserved from Old North Germanic, and is described as having stress more or less evenly distributed across the two syllables.
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Ethnic distribution of phenylketonuria in the north German population
Human Genetics, 1984Results of neonatal screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) suggest a west-east gradient of PKU gene frequency in central Europe. In order to test the hypothesis that the unexpectedly high prevalence of PKU in northwestern Germany (northern region of the FRG) is due to the migration of Germans from eastern regions of prewar Germany in the decade after ...
G, Flatz, M, Oelbe, H, Herrmann
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On the periodisation of early North Germanic
NOWELE. North-Western European Language EvolutionAbstract This article welcomes the recent proposal of Michael Schulte (2024) for a periodisation of early North Germanic, while pointing out problematic premises and criteria for the delimitation of the proposed subperiods. It is argued that in delimiting linguistic periods there is more to gain than lose for the clarity of scholarly argument if ...
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The traditional North Germanic dialects are spoken in the geographical area of Scandinavia, located in the northernmost part of Europe and the North Atlantic area. Linguistically, they form a dialect continuum with similar linguistic characteristics beyond national borders.
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‘North Sea or German Ocean’? The Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry, 1842–1914
Imago Mundi, 2009ABSTRACT From 1842, British and German commercial cartographers established a profitable relationship based on mutual cooperation and the exchange of expertise. The links between the mapmakers of Edinburgh and Gotha, so strong that they amounted to a form of ‘freemasonry’, underpinned the production of many of the key British atlases of the period. The
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When J. S. Bach applied for the post of organist at the Jakobikirche in Hamburg in 1720 he had hoped to inherit one of the most famous organs in north Germany (see Figure 15.1). Like many of the finest organs of the period it was an instrument that had been enlarged several times over, most recently by the most famous of all north German builders, Arp ...
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When J. S. Bach applied for the post of organist at the Jakobikirche in Hamburg in 1720 he had hoped to inherit one of the most famous organs in north Germany (see Figure 15.1). Like many of the finest organs of the period it was an instrument that had been enlarged several times over, most recently by the most famous of all north German builders, Arp ...
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