Toneme Patterns in Norwegian and in Swedish Dialects

Fintoft, K.

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“…Den andra variabeln är värdet på den lexikala tonen i accent 2. Den lexikala tonen kan vara H eller L. Denna variabel ger intressant utslag över hela Skandinavien och det är också den variabel som mest används i den norska forskningstraditionen (även om man där med termer som högtonsdialekt och lågtonsdialekt hänvisat till första tonen i accent 1, se Fintoft et al 1978). Efterföljande toner lyder OCP.…”

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Högt och lågt i skandinaviska dialekter

Riad

2014

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The typology of Scandinavian dialects is based on prosodic features, namely tone and intonation. We look at three variables that account for the variation between the large dialect groups: 1. The value of the lexical tone in accent 2, 2. Whether there is one or two association points for the tonal contour in compounds, and 3. Whether there is spreading or interpolation between the lexical tone and the prominence tone in compounds. The relevance of these variables is illustrated by comparisons of real pronunciations from several dialects, including Olso (East Norwegian), Göteborg (West Swedish), Stockholm (Central Swedish), Norberg (Dala Swedish), Skåne (South Swedish), and Luleå (North Swedish).

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Högt och lågt i skandinaviska dialekter

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2014

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“…Furthermore, in the majority of varieties of Norwegian and Swedish, the tonal accent contrast cannot occur on monosyllabic words. Varying instantiations of this phenomenon are found in typologically related and unrelated languages, such as Norwegian and Swedish (e.g., Gårding, 1973;Bruce, 1977;Fintoft, 1987), Lithuanian (Senn, 1966), Latvian (Derksen, 1966;Karins, 1996), Japanese (Pierrehumbert and Beckman, 1988), and some varieties of Korean (e.g., Kim, 1988), Basque (Hualde, 1991), Serbian and Croatian (Smiljanić, 2006), and Dutch and German (Gussenhoven, 2004).…”

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The Effect of Focus and Phrase Position on East Norwegian Lexical Tonal Accents

Kelly

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2017

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Two experiments examined the acoustic correlates of the disyllabic tonal accent contrast in the Trøndersk dialect of Norwegian, and how narrow focus and phrasal position shape the contrast. Production results showed that both tonal accents have a high-low (HL) pitch contour, with different timing. In narrow focus, the pitch contrast was enlarged through asymmetrical F0 changes. When at the right edge of an accent phrase (AP), the accents were shown to have a higher L, lower AP H% tone, shorter stressed vowel, and longer final vowel. The alignment changes reflected tonal crowding while segmental modifications were due to the phrase-final lengthening in AP-final position. This work contributes to the literature on prosodic typology as well as on the implementation of prosodic focus and sentence intonation in languages with lexical pitch contrasts.

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Perception of the Lexical Accent Contrast in One Variety of East Norwegian

Kelly

Smiljanić

2017

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The perception of the lexical pitch accents was examined in the Trøndersk dialect of Norwegian. Based on a production study, a categorization of stimuli with manipulated pitch contours was conducted. The experiment tested which acoustic cues (height and alignment of fundamental frequency (F0) minimum, and alignment of F0 maximum and turning point from maximum to minimum) are necessary for the perception of the tonal contrast. The results are consistent with the production findings in that changes in all of the examined acoustic cues contributed to the shift in accent categorization. The later alignment of the main F0 landmarks (F0 maximum, F0 minimum and turning point from maximum to minimum) induced accent 2 identification. Raising F0 minimum height also led to more accent 2 responses. The analysis of the perception patterns furthermore revealed that the effect of a later alignment of F0 minimum was weak unless combined with a later alignment of the other F0 landmarks, or a higher F0 minimum level, all of which contributed to more accent 2 responses. These results indicate that accent 1 is characterized by an early fall, and accent 2 by a salient initial high tone. Implications of these findings for the phonological analysis of the tonal contrasts in the Trøndersk dialect are also discussed.

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Toneme Patterns in Norwegian and in Swedish Dialects

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Högt och lågt i skandinaviska dialekter

Högt och lågt i skandinaviska dialekter

The Effect of Focus and Phrase Position on East Norwegian Lexical Tonal Accents

Perception of the Lexical Accent Contrast in One Variety of East Norwegian

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