Modelling compound intonation in dala and gotland swedish

As part of our work within the SIMULEKT pro-ject, we are modelling compound word intona-tion in regional varieties of Swedish. The focus of this paper is on the Gotland and Dala varie-ties of Swedish and the current version of SWING (SWedish INtonation Generator). We examined productions by 75 speakers of the compound mobiltelefonen ‘the mobile phone’. Based on our findings for pitch patterns in compounds we argue for a possible division into three dialect regions: 1) Gotland: a high upstepped pitch plateau, 2) Dala-Bergslagen: a high regular pitch plateau, and 3) Upper Da-larna: a single pitch peak in connection with the primary stress of the compound. The SWING tool was used to model and simulate com-pounds in the three intonational varieties. Fu-ture work includes perceptual testing to see if listeners are able to identify a speaker as be-longing to the Gotland, Dala-Bergslagen or Upper Dalarna regions, depending on the pitch shape of the compound