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
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Full text
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