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- Bruce, Gösta, et al.
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Database tools for a prosodic analysis of the Swedish
- 1999
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In: Proceedings FONETIK 99. ; , s. 49-52
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A searchable database of speech samples from more than 100 Swedish dialects is being established for use in research and education. Each dialect is represented by at least 12 speakers. The recorded material comprises spontaneous speech as well as words and phrases elicited with a number of specific research goals in mind. This paper summarizes one of these goals, a prosodic typology for the Swedish dialects, and describes a database prototype designed as a tool in this research. Its use in accessing, representing and analyzing the relevant data is illustrated. A full project description is available in Reports from the Department of Phonetics Umeå University (PHONUM) 4, pp. 97-100 ; see also http://www.swedia.nu .
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- Bruce, Gösta, et al.
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Phonetics and phonology of the Swedish dialects - a project presentation and a database demonstrator
- 1999
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In: Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. - 1563968991 ; , s. 321-324
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A searchable database of speech samples from more than 100 Swedish dialects is being established for use in research and education. Each dialect is represented by at least 12 speakers. Recordings are made of spontaneous speech as well as words and phrases elicited with a number of specific research goals in mind. This paper summarizes one of these goals, a prosodic typology for the Swedish dialects. The current database prototype was designed as a tool in this research. Its use in accessing, representing and analyzing the relevant data is described.
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- Sigurd, Bengt, et al.
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Encounters and Models of Interlocutors
- 1977
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In: Dialectology and Sociolinguistics : Essays in honour of Karl-Hampus Dahlstedt - Essays in honour of Karl-Hampus Dahlstedt. - 9171740104 ; 12, s. 175-190
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Strangert, Eva, 1943-
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Swedish speech rhythm in a cross-language perspective
- 1985
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The study aims to describe and to explain some temporal aspects of the rhythmic structure of Swedish, and to compare Swedish, Spanish, and Finnish, characterized as rhythmically different languages.The temporal effects of some manipulations believed to have consequences for rhythm were studied in a series of experiments based on sets of Swedish sentences. These manipulations included the length of stress groups - the number of unstressed syllables between stressed ones - and their structural properties. Also the length of the surrounding stress group was varied, as well as speech rate.The results indicated the presence of several interacting factors. First, there was an inverse relation between the length of the phrase and the duration of the stress group: phrase-lenqth adjustments. Iheeffects were similar to those obtained when speech rate was independently varied. Secondly, adjacent stress groups were adjusted so that differences of duration were counteracted: stress-qroup adjustments.In addition, in longer stress groups rhythmic alternation between unstressed syllables occurred. Finally, there was an interplay between rhythm and language structure. This was evident from the stability of the temporal manifestations of the quantity distinction and the distinction between stressed and unstressed syllables irrespective of the experimental manipulations.The results were interpreted in terms of a process model of speech rhythm, the generality of which was considered in the cross-language comparisons. The presence of similar temporal effects in all three languages was taken to support assumptions of language-independent processing constraints. Deviations from the general pattern were explainable in terms of differences of language structure and adjustments to preserve important structural properties, especially quantity relations.
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