Quantity has been considered one of the most salient social markers in Finland Swedish. Extra-long consonants in stressed V:C syllables have been characteristic for the speech of upper class Swedish in Helsinki. In contrast, rural Finland Swedish dialects are characterized by very short consonant durations in V:C sequences. The aim of this paper is to study phonetic quantity in Swedish spoken in three cities in Finland: Helsinki, Turku and Vaasa. Spontaneous speech data from 40 speakers in two age groups were analyzed. The results show significant differences across the cities. V:/C ratios are significantly lower in Helsinki and Turku than in Vaasa. In Turku, there is a significant difference between older and younger speakers: the older sp...
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Abstract The central goal of this study was to study how contrastive accent is realised phoneticall...
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, ...
The paper presents preliminary data relevant to Swedish children’s acquisition of the quantity contr...
This paper consists of two, somewhat disparate parts. In the first part, some experiences of two yea...
This research project is a sociolinguistic investigation into change and variation in Finland-Swedis...
The aim of this thesis was to study dialectal variation in Swedish vowel pronunciation. The data wer...
In this paper an aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects is proposed by means ...
The present study is about the phonetic properties of the West Swedish dialect spoken specifically i...
Preaspiration is not unusual in connection with unvoiced consonants in Swedish. In all the 20 Northe...
A difference in prepausal lengthening was found when the unscripted speech of Estonians living in Sw...
This study compares the acoustic realisation of /i: y: ʉ: u:/ in three varieties of Swedish: Central...
This pilot study investigates the phonetic reali-sation of Estonian Swedish long close vowels compar...
Ternary quantity opposition is a cross-linguistically extremely rare typological feature. One of the...
Many languages exploit suprasegmental devices in signaling word meaning. Tone languages exploit fund...
This study investigates diphthongization in three Swedish varieties that the literature has regarded...
Abstract The central goal of this study was to study how contrastive accent is realised phoneticall...
This investigation compares articulation rates of phonological and phonetic syllables in Norwegian, ...
The paper presents preliminary data relevant to Swedish children’s acquisition of the quantity contr...