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- Zetterholm, Elisabeth, et al.
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Identifiering av fonologiska kontraster i svenska ord : Ett lyssnartest för andraspråksinlärare
- 2016
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34 : Förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014 - Förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014. - 0347-8971. - 9789187833779 - 9789187833786 ; 74, s. 457-469
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- Agebjörn, Anders, et al.
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Kvinna – motsatsen till man? : Ordet kvinna:s semantik
- 2016
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34 : Förhandlingar vid Trettiofjärde sammankomsten Lund den 22–24 oktober 2014 - Förhandlingar vid Trettiofjärde sammankomsten Lund den 22–24 oktober 2014. - 0347-8971. - 9789187833779 - 9789187833786 ; 74, s. 61-77
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- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert, 1979-, et al.
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Is duration a (true) correlate of the Swedish word accents?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Fonologi i Norden. - : University of Helsinki. ; , s. 2-2
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish exhibits a binary tonal word-accent distinction (Accent 1, Accent 2) which is acoustically manifested in the fundamental frequency (fo) contour. Further acoustic correlates beyond fo have hardly been acknowledged in the past, although minor differences in segmental durations between A1 and A2 have been observed in some previous studies (e.g., Elert, 1964; Lundmark Svensson et al., 2017). In this study, we aim to scrutinize these durational patterns for two Swedish dialects (Scania and Stockholm Swedish) by means of testing whether duration as a correlate of Swedish word accents can be observed independently of effects such as focal lengthening and final lengthening. The few previously reported duration data for A1 and A2 in Swedish are, we will argue, not well in line with the numerous available reports on tone languages, which suggest that more complex tonal patterns are reflected by longer durations (e.g., K hnlein, 2015, and references therein). For Swedish, however, previous research has not consequently revealed longer durations where it would be predicted based on tonal complexity. For instance, for Stockholm Swedish, Elert (1964) observed a longer stressed vowel in A1 than in A2, although longer durations could be predicted for the more complex H*LH-pattern in A2 than for the (H)L*H in A1. One possible explanation of this inconsistency could be that the Swedish word accents per se might not significantly differ in duration at all, and the small durational differences between A1 and A2 are, instead, a bi-product of sentence-level prosody, which might, for reasons to be discussed at the conference, affect one of the word accents stronger than the other. In this study, we therefore compare segmental durations for A1 and A2 in focal and non-focal conditions in different positions in the utterance. Furthermore, we present two parallel analyses for two dialects of Swedish – Stockholm and Scania – which differ critically in the tonal composition (or rather timing) of the word accents, as well as in how focus is marked tonally.The analyses are based on recordings from 24 speakers in total (6 women and 6 men per dialect), and 36 utterances per speaker (12 conditions, 3 repetitions). Speakers were asked to read variants of the sentence Boven/ar hade vinet/er i bilen/ar ‘(The) villain(s) had wine(s) in (the) car(s)’, where the three test words (villain, wine, car) are associated either with A1 (= def. sg. form) or A2 (= indef. pl.); a few relevant combinations of A1 and A2 forms were selected for this study. Furthermore, a narrow focus was elicited (using context questions) on either the first, second or third test word. Data are analyzed using linear mixed regression models. The results reveal an overall stable and uniform effect of word accent on the duration of the vowel in the stressed syllable (/i:/ in vin and bil) and the subsequent consonant (either /n/ or /l/), irrespective of focus condition, position in utterance (vin vs. bil) and dialect: both segments tend to be slightly longer in A2 than in A1 (except in the /l/ in post-focal bilen in Stockholm Swedish).To conclude, this study suggests duration as a systematic correlate of the Swedish word accents, which, however, does not obviously seem to relate to tonal composition or complexity. We aim to collect fruitful comments and explanatory accounts from the conference delegates.ReferencesElert, C.-C. (1964). Phonologic Studies of Quantity in Swedish. Based on Material from Stockholm Speakers. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.Köhnlein, B. (2015). The complex durational relationship of contour tones and level tones: Evidence from diachrony. Diachronica, 32(2), 231-267. doi:10.1075/dia.32.2.03kohLundmark Svensson, M., Ambrazaitis, G., & Ewald, O. (2017). Exploring multidimensionality: Acoustic and articulatory correlates of Swedish word accents. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1502
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- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert, 1979-, et al.
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Segmental durations as a correlate of Swedish word accents : Evidence from Stockholm and Scania Swedish
- 2021
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Ingår i: Working Papers 56. 2021. - Lund : Lund University. ; , s. 13-16
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study aims to scrutinize the role of segmental duration as acorrelate of the two Swedish word accents, asking whether it is a robust correlate, independent of tonal complexity and phrase-level prosodic factors. To this end, we examined segmental durations of Accent 1 and Accent 2 words in two regional dialects, controllingfor focus and phrase finality. Recordings from 24 speakers were analysed. Theresults showed that thevowel in the stressed syllable and the post-vocalic consonant wereproduced longer with Accent 2 than with Accent 1, irrespective ofthe speakers¶ dialect,focus condition and positionin the utterance.
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- Ambrazaitis, Gilbert, et al.
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Talets atomer
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språket, människan och världen : människans språk 1-2 - människans språk 1-2. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144083391 ; , s. 125-164
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Einfeldt, Marieke, et al.
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THREE FIRST LANGUAGES (3L1) AT ONCE : A CASE STUDY OF TRILINGUAL CONSONANT DEVELOPMENT
- 2022
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Ingår i: Lingue e Linguaggio. - 1720-9331. ; 21:1, s. 73-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the development of the consonant inventories of a trilingual child acquiring Standard German, Swiss German and Italian simultaneously to find out whether and how mono- and trilingual acquisition differ. We examine our findings in the light of cross-linguistic interaction (CLI) and language separation in multilingual first language acquisition. To this end, longitudinal trilingual data as well as monolingual control data was analyzed for all three languages. We will discuss the role of language internal factors (markedness, frequency, complexity, typological proximity) for CLI as well as external ones (quantity and quality of input, dominance, metalinguistic awareness). Results speak for an independent development of the three sound systems with little CLI. Some sounds showed accelerated developments, arguably due to higher metalinguistic awareness resulting in advanced articulatory skills.
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- Gargiulo, Chiara, et al.
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First language attrition on prosody in a foreign language environment: A speech production study on anaphora resolution
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2631-8407 .- 2631-8415. ; 2:2, s. 219-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we explore whether first language (L1) attrition affects the use of prosodic cues in anaphora resolution. 18 late Italian–Swedish bilinguals completed a speech production task in L1 Italian, wherein we measured the inter-clausal pause duration and the pronoun’s degree of prosodic prominence. They also completed a control interpretation task, wherein we analysed response preferences, to test the status of L1 attrition on anaphora resolution when sentences are not vocalized. Prominence patterns and pause features exhibited by the late bilinguals were compared to those shown by Italian and Swedish monolinguals investigated in a previous study in 2019. The results suggest L1 attrition to affect the use of prosodic cues in anaphora resolution. The attrition rate was influenced by length of residence (LoR): the longer the residence in the foreign language (FL) environment, the higher the probability of adaptation to the FL prominence patterns, for most of the prosodic cues.
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- Gargiulo, Chiara, et al.
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The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language : A production study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. - : Open Library of the Humanities. - 2397-1835. ; 4:1, s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish. To address this question, 28 Italian speakers and 28 Swedish speakers completed a production task, by reading out loud globally-ambiguous sentences containing overt pronouns and a control interpretation task, where they selected either a subject or an object antecedent for each pronoun, contained in a globally-ambiguous sentence. We expected that the different preference patterns in antecedent assignment in the two languages would affect the speakers’ use of prosody. In Italian, overt pronouns are usually associated with object antecedents, whereas null pronouns are usually associated with subject antecedents (Position of Antecedent Strategy – “PAS” – Carminati 2002). On the other hand, Swedish overt pronouns leave a measure of ambiguity with respect to antecedent assignment. The results of the control interpretation task confirmed that the Italian speakers conformed to the PAS, but the results for the Swedish speakers unexpectedly indicated a preference for subject antecedents. For the production task, the Italian speakers produced longer inter-clausal pauses and pronouns with a higher degree of prominence with subject rather than object antecedents. In contrast, the Swedish speakers produced longer pauses and pronouns with a higher degree of prominence with object rather than subject antecedents. These results suggest that inter-clausal pause and prosodic prominence favoured the most unpredictable antecedent of overt pronouns (see Goad et al. 2018): the subject in Italian and the object in Swedish.
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- Holm, Lisa, et al.
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Lexikala profiler i några nutida romaner
- 2016
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34 : Förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten. Lund den 22–24 oktober 2014 - Förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten. Lund den 22–24 oktober 2014. - 0347-8971. - 9789187833779 ; 74, s. 201-213
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- Lulaci, Tugba, et al.
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The time course of onset CV coarticulation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2022 : Fonetik 2022 - the XXXIIIrd Swedish Phonetics Conference - Fonetik 2022 - the XXXIIIrd Swedish Phonetics Conference. - 0282-6690. ; :XXXIII
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study investigates the center of gravity in onset fricatives as a main acoustic feature to assess the relation between vowel pronunciation and coarticulatory spectral characteristics of the onset consonant. /s/- and /f/-initial CV sequences were analyzed with backness, roundedness and height of the vowel as predictors of fricative center of gravity. Results showed that the first 15 ms of an onset fricative could carry predictive cues to the upcoming vowel.
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- Rahm, Henrik, et al.
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Drömmen om företaget
- 2016
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34 : förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014 - förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014. - 1102-3619 .- 0347-8971. - 9789187833779 - 9789187833786 ; 34, s. 399-411
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Roll, Mikael, et al.
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Preface
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2021 : Lund, June 8–9, 2021 - Lund, June 8–9, 2021. - 0280-526X. ; 56
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- Skärlund, Sanna, et al.
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Blir en det nya hen : Om den ny(gamla) användningen av en som generiskt pronomen
- 2016
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34 : förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014 - förhandlingar vid trettiofjärde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Lund den 22-24 oktober 2014. - 0347-8971. ; :A74, s. 413-427
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- Thornell, Christina, 1948, et al.
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Morphological function, syllabic and phonetic form of nasal+plosive combinations in the Bantu language Mpiemo
- 1999
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Ingår i: Proceedings. Fonetik 99. The Swedish Phonetics Conference. June 2-4 1999. - 0349-1021. ; :1999, s. 137-140
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A discussion on how to handle consonant combination in the Bantu language Mpiemo spoken in the south west border region of the Central African Republic is presented. The question is raised, whether nasal+consonant combinations are adequately analysed as single phonological units or as separate ones. Phonetic, syllabic and mrophological aspects are taken into consideration.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Approriate tone accent production in L2-Swedish by L1-speakers of Somali?
- 2014
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Ingår i: COPAL Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics. - Montreal, Canada : COPAL. ; 5, s. 722-736
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has been suggested that speakers with an L1 with lexical tones may have an advantage when it comes to perceptually discriminating between different tones in another tone language (Kaan, Wayland, Bao & Barkley, 2007). Other studies in L2‐learning show that this is not entirely the case (van Dommelen & Husby 2009, So & Best 2010). A model of typological pitch prominence (Schaefer & Darcy, 2013) suggests that speakers of an L1 with a higher pitch prominence can perceive tonal contrast in another tone language better than those with an L1 of a lower pitch prominence. This study addresses the question: if Somali L1‐speakers make a systematical distinction in the tonal pattern when producing Swedish words with the two tonal accents – as both languages are of similar pitch prominence according to Schaefer and Darcy – and also to what extent they produce a tonal pattern assigned to either one of the tone accents. The adequate distinction is identified as such by native speakers/listeners of Swedish. Results revealed that a big discrepancy still remains between the number of correct identifications of the stimuli produced by the L1‐speakers of Swedish and those produced by L2‐speakers of Swedish with Somali as their L1. Having a typologically similar L1 does not seem to give enough support to handle the tone accent distinction in Swedish L2 adequately.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Foreign accent : influences of the sound system of Serbian on the production of Swedish L2
- 2015
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Ingår i: Working papers. - Lund : Lund University. - 0280-526X. ; 55, s. 95-100, s. 95-100
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Among the second language learners of Swedish from the group of first language speakers (L1) of the one of the standard languages that formed the pluricentric language Serbo-Croatian, Serbian currently seems to be most frequent L1. Based on recordings of L2-speech produced by two Serbian L1-speakers, living in Sweden, this contribution presents typical pronunciation features in L2-Swedish, in order to provide teachers with a better understanding of foreign accent characteristics when teaching Swedish as a second language.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild
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Nasals and Nasalisation in Speech Production with Special Emphasis on Methodology and Osaka Japanese
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Nasal speech sounds occur in most of the languages of the world. Two goals concerning nasalisation in speech were pursued in the studies presented in this volume. One deals with the development and testing of a method for recording nasal vibration with an accelerometer microphone attached to the outer part of the nose, and analysing the signal with the help of a wide band spectrogram. The other aim was the investigation of speech production strategies which are used to characterise the mora nasal in Osaka Japanese and to distinguish it from the non-moraic nasal. The use of a lightweight accelerometer microphone and the interpretation of its signal with the help of spectral analysis was considered a practical method for gathering information about nasality in speech in a field work situation. Fibreoptic recordings of the velopharyngeal port confirmed that formant structure in a wide band spectrogram of the accelerometer signal differs according to the presence or absence of oral-nasal coupling. There are different speech production strategies for distinguishing the mora nasal from the non-moraic nasal in Osaka Japanese. These strategies include variation in duration, but also a variation in vowel quality, based on other aspects than velar opening. Anticipatory velar lowering procedures did not prove to account for a distinction between the two nasal categories. Classical analyses, claiming that the mora nasal in intervocalic position has to be a nasal vowel can be rejected for Osaka Japanese, since a variant with oral closure occurs. Its use, however, depends on the speaker’s age and on the quality of the post-nasal vowel.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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New Foreign Accents in Swedish
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings ICPhS 2011. ; , s. 2018-2021
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Observed pronunciation features in Swedish L2 produced by L1-speakers of Albanian
- 2013
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Ingår i: Studies in Language and Culture 21. - 9789175195827 ; , s. 85-88, s. 85-88
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The number of immigrants with Albanian L1 has increased in Sweden during the last two decades. This particular group is also present in the SFI-classroom. This contribution aims to present typical pronunciation features in L2-Swedish produced by Albanian L1-speakers, based on recordings of two Albanian speakers living in Sweden.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Observed pronunciation features in Swedish L2 produced by two L1-speakers of Vietnamese
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings from FONETIK 2014 Stockholm, June 9-11, 2014. - : Stockholm Univeristy. ; , s. 117-122
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Immigrants with Vietnamese as their L1 have been living in Sweden for a couple of decades. Vietnamese L1- speakers are also currently present in the SFI-classroom. The aim of this contribution is to present observed pronunciation features in L2-Swedish and is based on material produced by two L1- speakers of Vietnamese. We will also discuss those features of L2- pronunciation which lead to serious communication.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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On the initial aggregation of nasality and stops in the Bantu language Mpiemo
- 2000
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Ingår i: Proceedings. Fonetik 2000. The Swedish Phonetics Conference. May 24-26 2000-05-21. - 9163096471 ; 2000, s. 137-140
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The pronunciation of initial stops and those with a nasal preceding it varies substantially in Mpiemo. Equivalence of the pronounciation of allophones in the two categories may lead to a contraction of phonological categories in the future. The potential of such a process seems to be supported by the difference in language awareness of speakers of different age.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, 1962-, et al.
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On vocal drop-out and voice quality in children. Voicing sustainment and voice quality in children
- 2008
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Ingår i: FONETIK 2008,2008. - Göteborg : Göteborg Universitet, Inst Lingvistik. - 9789197719605 ; , s. 15-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present perceptual investigation pursues the question wether the evaluation of a child's voice as hoarse, breathy or hyperfunctional can be correlated to the degree of non-periodical sections in the signal based on the lack of regular oscillations of the vocal folds. The results show that this is not the case: children with clearly hoarse voices produce a stable and measurable fundamental frequency. In addition, children who show a tendency toward unstable fundamental frequency are not evaluated as hoarse, neither breathy nor hyperfunctional.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Patterns of prominence in L2 : Observations from learners of Swedish with L1s of diverse prominence properties
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - Glasgow : University of Glasgow. - 2412-0669. - 9780852619414 - 9780852619421
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish has – like other Germanic languages – flexible stress placement, which underlies morphological rules and is also based on the individual word’s origin. The achievement of the correct usage when learning Swedish is challenging. As second language learners of Swedish in the classrooms present speakers of a variety of first languages (L1s), the opportunity has been taken to have a closer look on how stress in L2 is handled. For that reason, learners with Somali, Albanian, Vietnamese and Farsi as their first language were recorded when speaking L2-Swedish. These languages exemplify a variety of systems in regard to the usage of stress. The recorded speech was analysed and the observed way of administering stress in L2 was compared to the organisation of stress in L1.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Rhythmic contrast between Swedish and Albanian as an explanation for L2-speech?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2015. - Chania, Greece : Institute of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. - 9786188235106 ; , s. 396-402
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on observations of the rhythmic structure of L2-speech produced by L1-speakers of Albanian – which suggest the occurrence of transfer – a study is presented here that compares durational aspects between the two languages. In order to do this, speech read by Swedish and Albanian L1-speakers was recorded and investigated, and normalized durational factors were analysed. The results, however, do not support the assumption that there is variation in the rhythmic structure between the two languages. According to the results, transfer cannot explain previous observations.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Syllable duration in L1 and its impact on the prominence level in L2
- 2015
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Ingår i: ISMBS 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The correct production of contrast in prominence in a second language is challengingfor the learners. Not only is there the placement of stress on the appropriate syllable in the word that has to be learned, but also features which are used to express such a contrast have to be acquired, and to what extent they are used. Such features can be based on the variation of sound intensity, segment and/or syllable length, presence of tonal accents and degree of articulatory precision. Furthermore, the level of prominence of several syllables in an utterance is not just twofold, but can be primary, secondary or tertiary.When studying accented L2-speech of Swedish produced by L1-speakers of Albanian, it was not always clear which syllable in a word was carrying the highest level of stress. Therefore, one of the foreign accent features is not simply based on incorrect stress placement, but there is a need for further explanations. Observations from auditory analysis were that vowel quality reduction –as required in unstressed syllables in Swedish in most cases –was not carried out sufficiently. Visual inspection of the speech wave gave the impression that vowels seemed to be of similar length and at almost equal distance from each other, no matter if they were part of an anticipated stressed or unstressed syllable.Based on these observations, the current contribution aims to give an account for similarities or dissimilarities in syllable length between Swedish and Albanian produced by L1-speakers and L2-Swedish produced by Albanian L1-speakers. Hereby, the approach taken includes the measurements of syllable duration of spontaneous and read speech and the calculation of the nPVI. If the observation presented above is correct, the nPVI for Albanian L1-speech would have a lower value –referring to a language which is more similar to a syllable-timed-language –than the nPVI for Swedish L1-speech, similar to what is referred to as stress-timed. The analysis of the nPVI carried out on L2-Swedish speech, produced by L1-speakers of Albanian will then be compared to the indices received from L1-speech. It is assumed, that the nPVI of L2-Swedish is closer in value to the nPVI of L1-Albanian than to the nPVI of L1-speakers’ Swedish. The analysis of read speech is added here to rule out that the above stated observations were merely based on an artefact. Such an artefact could have been caused by the rather unnatural situation of language production when reading -when the subject’s attention is drawn to the text and effort is made to reproduce the text as clearly as possible.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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Tendencies of Swedish word accent production by L2-learners with tonal and non-tonal L1
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic prosody: proceedings of the XIth conferece, Tartu 2012. - 9783631644270 ; , s. 391-400
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A comparison between second language learners of Swedish, some of whom have an L1 with lexical tones, while the others do not, and their ability to produce adequate tonal word accents in Swedish is presented. The L1s in question are Farsi, Somali, Vietnamese and Thai. There is no clear evidence that it is easier to learn the correct Swedish word accent patterns and their correct application for speakers whose L1 is a tonal language of any sort. Instead, it does seem to be an advantage to be an L1-speaker of a particular type of tonal language.
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- Tronnier, Mechtild
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The consonantal realisation of the mora nasal in Osaka Japanese
- 1996
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The description of the pronunciation of the mora nasal in Standard Japanese varies considerably in the literature. The mora nasal is the syllable final nasal in Japanese (e.g. ‘n’ in Honda). Along with other elements, it came into the Japanese language with early loan-words from Chinese and extended the originally simpler phonotactics, which consisted of (C)V-syllables only. The variation in the descriptions of the mora nasal can be found not only between different researchers but also depending on the phonetic context, in which it is placed. In some studies the mora nasal is described as having an underlying phonetic place and modus of pronunciation, close to a velar nasal, and which is modified according to phonetic context and speaking style, but often leaves a trace of the original pronunciation. Others assume more context dependent realisations, not giving any information about some original pronunciation. In the following, a more detailed outline of the various descriptions of the pronunciation of the mora nasal in specific context will be given to illustrate the motivation of the present investigation, which is to show the existence of a consonantal realisation of the mora nasal in intervocalic context in Osaka Japanese, however favoured by particular circumstances and contexts
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- Tronnier, Mechtild, et al.
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The same or different : A comparison of the rhythmic structure of Swedish and Albanian
- 2016
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Ingår i: Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1732-0747 .- 1897-7499 .- 0137-2459. ; 52:4, s. 745-762
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this contribution is to give an account of the similarities or dissimilarities of the speech rhythm of Swedish and Albanian. In this study, temporal features were focused on to ascertain rhythmic differences between the two languages. The interest for this study arose when a clear rhythmic variation was observed in the accented Swedish L2 speech produced by L1-speakers of Albanian, namely the lack of attributes like reduction in unstressed syllables. It was thus hypothesised that speakers of L1-Swedish would produce larger variation in length of vocalic and/or consonantal intervals than L1-speakers of Albanian. The recorded material comprised read speech produced by seven L1-speakers of both languages. Various acoustic metrics were applied to analyse the rhythm. Results show differences between Swedish and Albanian speech for both non-normalised and normalised metrics only for the vocalic intervals, but with an unexpected outcome. In that way, larger length variation for vocalic intervals in the Albanian material than in the Swedish material was found. Therefore, the occurrence of reduction phenomena also in Albanian can be stated. These findings contradict the assumption that transfer from L1-Albanian was the reason for lack of reduction in L2-Swedish, as observed previously.
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Identifiering av fonologiska kontraster i svenska ord : Ett lyssnartest för andraspråksinlärare
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Ingår i: Svenskans beskrivning 34. - Lund : Lunds universitet. - 9789187833779 ; , s. 457-469
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det är många olika faktorer som spelar in när man lär sig ett nytt språk och förutsättningarna ser olika ut såväl individuellt som socialt. Här finns språkliga aspekter såsom typologiska likheter och skillnader mellan det/de språk inläraren redan behärskar och målspråket samt hur mycket språklig stimulans och möjlighet till interaktion inläraren får (Abrahamsson & Bylund 2012; Flege & Liu 2001). Förstaspråkets fonologiska regler överförs ofta till andraspråket och påverkar såväl perception som produktion (Major 2008, Jarvis & Pavlenko 2010). För att kunna producera ett lyssnarvänligt uttal på målspråket är det viktigt att inläraren uppfattar de fonologiska kontrasterna då det anses föreligga en koppling mellan perception och produktion (Escudero, 2005; McAl-lister, 1995). Det är inte självklart att det alltid är de mest uppenbara språkliga kontrasterna mellan första- och andraspråket som kan vålla uttalsproblem, ibland är de små mera subtila skillnaderna svårare att identifiera och förändra (Flege 1991). Talarens uttalsvanor, dvs. de artikulatoriska vanligtvis omedvetna och inlärda rörelserna, är ibland svåra att förändra och kräver en del medvetenhet och övning hos inläraren. Den studie som presenteras här tar upp frågan huruvida andraspråksinlärare med olika modersmål kan identifiera svenska ord utifrån ordpar med fonologiska kontraster. Ordparen är utvalda utifrån tidigare forskning som visar på generella svårigheter med den svenska fonologin som förekommer vid inlärning av svenska som andraspråk (Bannert 1990; tronnier & Zetterholm 2013; Zetterholm & tronnier 2012). Syftet med studien är att ta reda på om andraspråksinlärare uppfattar den fonologiska kontrasten när de hör ord uttalade av en svensk talare. Detta är en pilotstudie och resultaten får därför anses som preliminära, men intressanta för vidare forskning i ämnet.
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Orthographic cues for quantity distinctions in L2
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2019. - 9789177979845 - 9789177979852 ; , s. 13-18
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Adult second language learners often learn both written and spoken language more or less simultaneously. The orthography of the world’s languages is, however, not in a one-to-one relationship with the phonological and phonetic realisations of its words. Sometimes orthographic cues as a clue for learners can be found and taught. If not, the pronunciation of the word has to be learned from other cues than orthography. In Swedish, there is an important quantity distinction in stressed syllables, often signalled by single or double consonantal letters.Minimal pairs with a quantity distinction shown in the orthography were used to study to what extent that might be a cue for second language learners when reading sentences in Swedish. We found a difference between speakers that can be correlated to the learner’s first language. Obvious relationships between orthographic and phonological quantity patterns make it easier to use orthography as a cue for quantity distinction and pronunciation
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