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- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert, et al.
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Perception of South Swedish Word Accents
- 2006
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Ingår i: Conference proceedings from Fonetik 2006 : Lund, June 7-9, 2006. Working Papers in Linguistics, Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature - Lund, June 7-9, 2006. Working Papers in Linguistics, Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature. - 0280-526X. ; 52, s. 5-8
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A perceptual experiment concerning South Swedish word accents (accent I, accent II) is described. By means of editing and resynthesis techniques the F0 pattern of a test word in a phrase context has been systematically manipulated: initial rise (glide vs. jump) and final concatenation (6 timing degrees of the accentual fall). The results indicate that both a gliding rise and a late fall seem necessary for the perception of accent II, while there appear to be no such specific, necessary cues for the perception of accent I.
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- Asu, Eva Liina, et al.
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Comparative Study of Estonian Swedish Voiceless Laterals: Are Voiceless Approximants Fricatives?
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - 2412-0669. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Are voiceless approximants categorically distinct from voiceless fricatives? We address this question by means of acoustic analysis of voiceless laterals in Icelandic, Welsh, and the endangered variety Estonian Swedish. All three have a voiceless lateral functioning in contrast to a voiced lateral approximant. The analysis focused on duration – including any period of voicing (‘pre-voicing’) just before the release of the lateral – and the intensity of the voiceless lateral relative to the following vowel. Welsh showed no pre-voicing in the lateral, whilst Icelandic and Estonian Swedish did, though the latter less consistently. The Welsh voiceless lateral was also greater in relative intensity. This could be taken as a difference of phonetic category between a fricative [ɬ] in Welsh as against a voiceless approximant [l̥ ] in the other two languages, but we argue that the complexity of the data from Estonian Swedish excludes a categorical interpretation.
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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
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Human Recognition of Swedish Dialects
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2008. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 9789197719605 ; , s. 61-64
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our recent work within the research projectSIMULEKT (Simulating Intonational Varieties of Swedish) involves a pilot perceptiontest, used for detecting tendencies in humanclustering of Swedish dialects. 30 Swedishlisteners were asked to identify the geographical origin of 72 Swedish native speakers by clicking on a map of Sweden. Resultsindicate for example that listeners from thesouth of Sweden are generally better at recognizing some major Swedish dialects thanlisteners from the central part of Sweden.
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- Beskow, Jonas, et al.
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Recognizing and Modelling Regional Varieties of Swedish
- 2008
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Ingår i: INTERSPEECH 2008. - 9781615673780 ; , s. 512-515
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our recent work within the research project SIMULEKT (Simulating Intonational Varieties of Swedish) includes two approaches. The first involves a pilot perception test, used for detecting tendencies in human clustering of Swedish dialects. 30 Swedish listeners were asked to identify the geographical origin of Swedish native speakers by clicking on a map of Sweden. Results indicate for example that listeners from the south of Sweden are better at recognizing some major Swedish dialects than listeners from the central part of Sweden, which includes the capital area. The second approach concerns a method for modelling intonation using the newly developed SWING (Swedish INtonation Generator) tool, where annotated speech samples are resynthesized with rule based intonation and audiovisually analysed with regards to the major intonational varieties of Swedish. We consider both approaches important in our aim to test and further develop the Swedish prosody model.
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- Bruce, Gösta, et al.
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Modelling intonation in varieties of swedish
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008. - : International Speech Communications Association. - 9780616220030 ; , s. 571-574
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The research project Simulating intonational varieties of Swedish (SIMULEKT) aims to gain more precise and thorough knowledge about some major regional varieties of Swedish: South, Göta, Svea, Gotland, Dala, North, and Finland Swedish. In this research effort, the Swedish prosody model and different forms of speech synthesis play a prominent role. The two speech databases SweDia 2000 and SpeechDat constitute our main material for analysis. As a first test case for our prosody model, we compared Svea and North Swedish intonation in a pilot production-oriented perception test. Näi{dotless}ve Swedish listeners were asked to identify the most Svea and North sounding stimuli. Results showed that listeners can differentiate between the two varieties from intonation only. They also provided information on how intonational parameters affect listeners' impression of Swedish varieties. All this indicates that our experimental method can be used to test perception of different regional varieties of Swedish.
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