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Expressing ‘confirmation’ in Swedish: the interplay of word and utterance prosody

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Author

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Editor

  • Jürgen Trouvain
  • William J. Barry

Summary, in English

An exploratory study on the prosodic signaling of ‘confirmation’ in Swedish is presented. Pairs of subjects

read short dialogs, constructed around selected target words, in a conversational style. A falling utterance intonation was found on the target word, and the signaling of word prosody (lexical pitch accent) appeared to be, to a certain degree, optional.

Department/s

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

1093-1096

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Universität des Saarlandes

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • word accent
  • intonation
  • neutralization
  • Lund model
  • focal accent

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-9811535-0-7