Factor Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish Dialects

Leinonen, Therese

doi:10.3366/e175385480900038x

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“…Also, if we compare the vowel system of Standard Swedish (e.g. Leinonen 2010) with that of the Norwegian variety spoken around the capital Oslo (e.g. Kristoffersen 2000), a variety often referred to as Standard Norwegian (Røyneland 2005), we find very similar inventories.…”

Section: Linguistic Similarities Between Norwegian Swedish and Danishmentioning

confidence: 94%

Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

2011

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This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish to investigate differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) among these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of sentences read aloud. The results of the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhibits a much larger degree of syllable reduction in speech than Norwegian and Swedish. The finding that certain syllable deletion processes take place in Danish but not in Norwegian and Swedish is viewed as typological. The results indicate that Danish words are shorter than their Norwegian and Swedish counterparts. This could be a contributing factor to problems that arise in inter-Scandinavian communication.

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Section: Linguistic Similarities Between Norwegian Swedish and Danishmentioning

confidence: 94%

Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

2011

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“…the F3 is lowered in the "r-colored" varieties of American English (see also Eklund and Traunmüller, 1997;Jongman et al, 1989;O'Brien and Smith, 2010;Chung et al, 2012), which points to possible effects of variety on the F3 (Harrington, 2010). Although the F3 is less understood than the F1 and F2 (see Adank et al, 2004;Leinonen, 2010), a number of studies show that the segmental context can have significant effects on the F3 (Harrington, 2010), and in languages with round vowels, such as in Swedish, the F3 can distinguish the rounded vowels from the nonrounded ones (Fujimura, 1967). To examine whether the SMG and CG vowels differ with respect to rounding, this study controls the segmental environment of vowels.…”

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The Nature of Phonetic Gradience across a Dialect Continuum: Evidence from Modern Greek Vowels

Themistocleous

2017

Phonetica

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This study investigates the acoustic properties of vowels in 2 Modern Greek varieties: Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and Cypriot Greek (CG). Both varieties contain in their phonetic inventories the same 5 vowels. Forty-five female speakers between 19 and 29 years old participated in this study: 20 SMG speakers and 25 CG speakers, born and raised in Athens and Nicosia, respectively. Stimuli consisted of a set of nonsense CVCV and VCV words, each containing 1 of the 5 Greek vowels in stressed and unstressed position. Gaining insights from the controlled experimental design, the study sheds light on the gradient effects of vowel variation in Modern Greek. It shows that (1) stressed vowels are more peripheral than unstressed vowels, (2) SMG unstressed /i a u/ vowels are more raised than the corresponding CG vowels, (3) SMG unstressed vowels are shorter than CG unstressed vowels, and (4) SMG /i·u/ are more rounded than the corresponding CG vowels. Moreover, it shows that variation applies to specific subsystems, as it is the unstressed vowels that vary cross-varietally whereas the stressed vowels display only minor differences. The implications of these findings with respect to vowel raising and vowel reduction are discussed.

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“…Currently, many studies in sociolinguistics and dialectology investigating pronunciation variation focus on the acoustic properties of vowels (e.g., [2,5,13,18,26]). Since the seminal study of Peterson & Barney [20], formant measurements have been the classical way to measure vowel quality.…”

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Investigating dialectal differences using articulography

Wieling

Tomaschek

Arnold

et al. 2016

Journal of Phonetics

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The present study introduces articulography, the measurement of the position of tongue and lips during speech, as a promising method to the study of dialect variation. By using generalized additive modeling to analyze articulatory trajectories, we are able to reliably detect aggregate group differences, while simultaneously taking into account the individual variation across dozens of speakers. Our results on the basis of Dutch dialect data show clear differences between the southern and the northern dialect with respect to tongue position, with a more frontal tongue position in the dialect from Ubbergen (in the southern half of the Netherlands) than in the dialect of Ter Apel (in the northern half of the Netherlands). Thus articulography appears to be a suitable tool to investigate structural differences in pronunciation at the dialect level.

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Factor Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish Dialects

Cited by 12 publications

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Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish

The Nature of Phonetic Gradience across a Dialect Continuum: Evidence from Modern Greek Vowels

Investigating dialectal differences using articulography

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