Human Recognition of Swedish Dialects

• 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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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)

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