Getting your head around: the vowel system of Modern Icelandic
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Modern Icelandic
phonology
government phonology
vowel system
monophtongs
diphtongs

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Gussmann, E. (2011). Getting your head around: the vowel system of Modern Icelandic. Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 12, 71–90. Retrieved from https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/article/view/3640

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