Gjert Kristoffersen graduated from the University of Bergen in 1978. He has worked as Assistant Professor of General Linguistics and of Nordic Languages at the University of Tromsø (1979-84); Editor at the Norwegian University Press (Universitetsforlaget) in Tromsø and Oslo (1984-88); and Associate Professor of Nordic Languages at the University of Tromsø (1988-91). From 1991 he has held the post of Professor of Nordic Languages at the University of Bergen. He is the author of numerous articles on sociolinguistics and phonology in Scandinavian journals and anthologies.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Segments: Inventory and Feature Specifications ; 3. Phonotactic Constraints ; 4. Word Phonology ; 5. Syllable Structure ; 6. Stress Assignment in Simplex Words ; 7. Cyclic Stress Assignment ; 8. Cyclic Syllabification ; 9. Tonal Accents ; 10. Intonation and Rhythm ; 11. Postlexical Segmental Phonology ; 12. Orthographic Conventions ; References ; Index

The Phonology of Norwegian is a book that no future student of Norwegian phonology can afford to ignore.