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In Search of Word Accents in Estonian Swedish

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

Proceedings of ICPhS 2015

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

University of Glasgow

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Scandinavian tonal typology
  • Estonian Swedish
  • word accents

Conference name

the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII)

Conference date

2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14

Conference place

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2412-0669
  • ISBN: 978-0-85261-941-4