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Swedish word accents in a ‘confirmation’ context

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Author

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis

Editor

  • Björn Granström
  • Anna Hjalmarsson
  • David House
  • Preben Wik

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. The target utterances were produced with a rising-falling intonation, lacking any typical ‘focal accent’ (FA). Qualitative observations and acoustic measurements reveal that the signaling of the word accent contrast appears to be, to a certain degree, optional in a confirmation context. The results support the view that no tonal target needs to be assumed for accent I, and further suggest that utterance-level prominence can be realized by other means than the FA.

Department/s

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

49-52

Publication/Series

TMH-QPSR

Volume

50

Issue

1

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

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

Conference name

Fonetik 2007

Conference date

2007-05-30 - 2007-06-01

Conference place

Stockholm, Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1104-5787