The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes

A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness

“… 4 The articulatory properties of the segments in (1) are most carefully described by Storm (1884) and Endresen (1991). For articulatory studies of the same segments, see Moen et al (2003), Simonsen & Moen (2004), Knutsen (2006), Simonsen et al (2008), Moen & Simonsen (2011) and Stausland Johnsen (in press). In accordance with the articulatory definition set by the IPA handbook (1999: 8), apical postalveolars are traditionally called ‘retroflexes’ in the literature on Norwegian phonology (cf.…”