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An acoustic study of accentuation in Estonian Swedish compounds

Author

Editor

  • Eva Liina Asu
  • Pärtel Lippus

Summary, in English

This study, addressing the analysis of pitch patterns in Estonian Swedish compounds, enables us to draw some preliminary conclusions about the characteristics of accentuation in this little studied regional variety of Swedish. The analysis in the first part of the paper was inspired by the classification of Edvin Lagman (1979) who on the basis of auditory analysis distinguished between four accent types for Estonian Swedish compounds. Using the same materials, the present acoustic study broadly confirms his classification. In the second part of the paper, a small set of Estonian Swedish compound contours is compared to those of other regional va- rieties of Swedish. The results show that the contours of Estonian Swedish resemble most those found in Finland Swedish.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

343-352

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Group

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Estonian Swedish dialects
  • compound accentuations

Conference name

Nordic Prosody, 2012

Conference date

2012-08-15 - 2012-08-17

Conference place

Tartu, Estonia

Status

Published