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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of ICPhS 2015 |
| Publisher | University of Glasgow |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-85261-941-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII) - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 2015 Aug 10 → 2015 Aug 14 |
Publication series
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| ISSN (Print) | 2412-0669 |
Conference
| Conference | the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII) |
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| Abbreviated title | ICPhS2015 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Glasgow |
| Period | 2015/08/10 → 2015/08/14 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology (013020000), Humanities Lab (015101200), Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Free keywords
- Scandinavian tonal typology
- Estonian Swedish
- word accents