Acoustical Analysis of the Norwegian S-Sound

Fintoft, K.

doi:10.3109/00016486009123145

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“…Indeed, prosody is often considered as the most salient dialect feature when distinguishing between Norwegian dialects (Kerswill, 1994;Maehlum & Røyneland, 2012;van Ommeren and Kveen, 2019). 2 For instance, in an experimental perception study, Fintoft (1970) finds that citizens from five Norwegian locations 3 are able to identify the correct tonal accent (accent 1 as 1 and 2 as 2) in each others' dialects (and their own) to degrees between 83.9% and 97%, and that the tonal accents in the "Oslo dialect" (i.e., UEN) were always correctly identified by all groups. This indicates that Norwegians have a good perceptual knowledge of the tonal accents in UEN.…”

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“…Based on the literature reviewed above, we would expect them to have a certain command of the phonetic/acoustic features of the UEN dialect. Given the degree to which Norwegian speakers have (implicit) perceptive knowledge of the UEN variety (Fintoft, 1970), and the fact that they seem to have metalinguistic awareness of some of its relevant features (van Ommeren & Kveen, 2019), it would be remarkable if the RPR prosody, which has been reported to sound like UEN, turned out to be nothing like it upon closer inspection.…”

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Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers’ Role-Play Register

Strand

2023

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Prosodic features are some of the most salient features of dialect variation in Norway. It is therefore no wonder that the switch in prosodic systems is what is first recognized by caretakers and scholars when Norwegian children code-switch to something resembling the dialect of the capital (henceforth Urban East Norwegian, UEN) in role-play. With a focus on the system of lexical tonal accents, this paper investigates the spontaneous speech of North Norwegian children engaging in peer social role-play. By investigating F0 contours extracted from a corpus of spontaneous peer play, and comparing them with elicited baseline reference contours, this paper makes the case that children fail to apply the target tonal accent consistent with UEN in compounds in role-play, although the production of tonal accents otherwise seems to be phonetically target like UEN. Put in other words, they perform in accordance with UEN phonetics, but not UEN morpho-phonology.

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