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Functional data analysis of tongue articulation in Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish /i:, y:, u-:/

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Author

Editor

  • Robert Eklund

Summary, in English

Articulatory data collected from nine speakers each of Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish were used in a Functional Data Analysis (FDA) to study tongue articulation dynamics, more specifically the height and frontness of the tongue body and tip in the palatal vowels /i ̆, y ̆, u̟ ̆/. Standard z-score transformations were used for speaker normalisation. Results showed that the tongue articulation for /i ̆/ and /y ̆/ is generally similar, and significantly different from /u̟ ̆/ in both Malmöhus and Gothenburg Swedish. We also found a subdivision of Gothenburg Swedish into two subtypes, where type 1 resembled Malmöhus Swedish more. Significant differences in tongue body height were found between all varieties for all of the vowels, except for /y ̆/ between Gothenburg type 1 and Malmöhus Swedish.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

69-72

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Linköping University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Swedish vowels
  • Functional data analysis
  • Articulography

Conference name

Fonetik 2013

Conference date

2013-06-12 - 2013-06-13

Conference place

Linköping, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Exotic vowels in Swedish – an articulographic study of palatal vowels [VOKART]