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- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert, 1979-, et al.
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Focal F0 peak shape and sentence mode in Swedish
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - Glasgow : University of Glasgow. - 9780852619414 - 9780852619421
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shape characteristics of rising-falling accentual F0 peaks of Stockholm Swedish Accent I words in narrow focus are studied in a corpus of 287 read sentences. The corpus includes statements and three types of polar questions. Results reveal a clear effect of sentence mode on the shape of the accentual rises: Statements are predominantly characterized by convex rises, questions by concave rises.
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- Asu, Eva Liina, et al.
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Comparative Study of Estonian Swedish Voiceless Laterals: Are Voiceless Approximants Fricatives?
- 2015
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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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- Dabbaghchian, Saeed, et al.
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SIMPLIFICATION OF VOCAL TRACT SHAPES WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DETAIL
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK. - : University of Glasgow. - 9780852619414 ; , s. 1-5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose a semi-automatic method to regenerate simplified vocal tract geometries from very detailed input (e.g. MRI-based geometry) with the possibility to control the level of detail, while maintaining the overall properties. The simplification procedure controls the number and organization of the vertices in the vocal tract surface mesh and can be assigned to replace complex cross-sections with regular shapes. Six different geometry regenerations are suggested: bent or straight vocal tract centreline, combined with three different types of cross-sections; namely realistic, elliptical or circular. The key feature in the simplification is that the cross-sectional areas and the length of the vocal tract are maintained. This method may, for example, be used to facilitate 3D finite element method simulations of vowels and diphthongs and to examine the basic acoustic characteristics of vocal tract in printed physical replicas. Furthermore, it allows for multimodal solutions of the wave equation.
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- Eklund, Robert, 1962-, et al.
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An acoustic analysis of ‘kulning’ (cattle calls) recorded in an outdoor setting on location in Dalarna (Sweden)
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. - Glasgow, Scotland, UK : International Phonetic Association. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish cattle call singing style ‘kulning’ issurprisingly understudied, despite its almostmythical status in Swedish folklore. While somephysiological-productive aspects of kulning havebeen treated in previous work, acoustic propertiesare still much lacking description. This paper addsto and extends the results presented in a previousstudy [7], where kulning and head voice (“falsetto”)was acoustically analysed in two indoor settings:a normal room and an anechoic chamber. In thepresent study, the same singer, singing the samekulning in the same two modes (kulning and headvoice), was recorded in an outdoor setting (close tothe singer’s home), thus allowing for a comparisonbetween “clinical” and more ecologically valid data.
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- Frid, Johan, et al.
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Tongue articulation of front close vowels in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. - 2412-0669. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Articulatory data were collected for the Swedish vowels /iː, yˌ, ʉ̟ː/ from nine speakers each of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmöhus Swedish, and the tongue positions and their dynamics analysed using Functional Data Analysis (FDA). Results showed that the general tongue positions for /iː/ and /yː/ are similar and clearly different from /ʉ̟ː/ in all three dialects. Variation within the Stockholm and Gothenburg groups led to a subdivision into two types, where the tongue positions of type 1 resem-bled Malmöhus Swedish more. Several differences in tongue articulation between types 1 and 2 were observed, possibly explained by the presence of Viby-coloured /iː/ and /yː/ in type 2.
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- Heldner, Mattias, 1969-, et al.
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Pitch Slope and End Point as Turn-Taking Cues in Swedish
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - Glasgow : University of Glasgow. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the relevance of parameters related to slope and end-point of pitch segments for indicating turn-taking intentions in Swedish. Perceptually motivated stylization in Prosogram was used to characterize the last pitch segment in talkspurts involved in floor-keeping and turn- yielding events. The results suggest a limited contribution of pitch pattern direction and position of its endpoint in the speaker’s pitch range to signaling turn-taking intentions in Swedish.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.. - Glasgow, UK : ICPHS. - 9780852619414 - 9780852619421
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spontaneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boundary tones are enhanced to mark information structuring. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Comment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the boundaries between Discourse Units. The results are dicussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.
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- Schötz, Susanne, et al.
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In Search of Word Accents in Estonian Swedish
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. - 2412-0669. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses on the word accent opposition in a lesser known and endangered variety of Swedish–Estonian Swedish. The variety has been described as not making the tonal distinction between Accent 1 and Accent 2 words, but no systematic acoustic phonetic investigation has been carried out previously to confirm these descriptions. As materials, disyllabic words from read sentences, spontaneous dialogues and elicited speech produced by nine elderly Estonian Swedish speakers were used. The comparison of tonal patterns of Words with Accent 1 and Accent 2 showed that there is no consistent word accent opposition in this variety. However, some variation was found in the realisation of pitch contours in different speech styles, which might refer to possible traces of an earlier accent distinction.
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- Šimko, Juraj, et al.
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Pith, perceived duration and auditory biases : Comparison among languages
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - Glasgow : University of Glasgow. - 9780852619414
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In addition to fundamental frequency height, its movement is also generally assumed to lengthen the perceived duration of syllable-like sounds. The lengthening effect has been observed for some languages (US English, French, SwissGerman, Japanese) but reported to be absent for another (Thai, Latin American Spanish, German). In this work, native speakers of Estonian, Finnish, Mandarin and Swedish performed a two-alternative forced choice duration discrimination experiment with pairs of complex tones varying in several acoustic dimensions. According to a logistic regression analysis, the duration judgements are affected by intensity, f0 level, and f0 movement for all languages, but the strength of these influences varies across languages and a pattern revealed by the relative strengths correlates with phonological properties of the languages. The findings are discussed in the light of current hypotheses of the origin of pitch modulation of perceived duration.
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