This dissertation investigates acoustic and prosodic features of North Sámi, a Uralic minority language traditionally spoken across northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The focus is on spoken variations within specific regions, influenced by majority languages. The study diverges from traditional dialectal analysis by examining varieties according to state borders. It comprises four publications ([P1] to [P4]) using multidisciplinary methods to explore prosodic characteristics and change in spoken North Sámi. [P2] and [P3] delve into word and phrase-level phenomena using modern language and speech technology methods. [P1] and [P4] study specific prosodic aspects of ternary quantity in North Sámi via more traditional acoustic phonetic anal...
This folk linguistic and human geographic study deals with dialect awareness, dialect use and place ...
Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on prosodian ja aksenttivariaatioiden esiintyminen lukion englannin ja ruo...
Swedish in Finnish surroundings Interaction, grammar and language contact in conversations within ...
The Finnmark North Sami is a variety of North Sami language, an indigenous, endangered minority lang...
Ternary quantity opposition is a cross-linguistically extremely rare typological feature. One of the...
We present results of a statistical hierarchical analysis of areal variation in prosody of spoken No...
This research project is a sociolinguistic investigation into change and variation in Finland-Swedis...
Abstract The central goal of this study was to study how contrastive accent is realised phoneticall...
The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical da...
This doctoral dissertation explores Finnish-speaking learners’ L2 pronunciation (second and foreign ...
Ternary length contrast is a rare phonological feature, investigated here both in terms of its reali...
The goal of the study was to examine Finnish university students’ perceptions of seven different var...
This thesis presents a perceptual study of difficulties met by native speakers of English in the pro...
The primary focus of this study is on dynamic quantity-related prosodic processes (reduction and len...
Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2009. Editors: Kri...
This folk linguistic and human geographic study deals with dialect awareness, dialect use and place ...
Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on prosodian ja aksenttivariaatioiden esiintyminen lukion englannin ja ruo...
Swedish in Finnish surroundings Interaction, grammar and language contact in conversations within ...
The Finnmark North Sami is a variety of North Sami language, an indigenous, endangered minority lang...
Ternary quantity opposition is a cross-linguistically extremely rare typological feature. One of the...
We present results of a statistical hierarchical analysis of areal variation in prosody of spoken No...
This research project is a sociolinguistic investigation into change and variation in Finland-Swedis...
Abstract The central goal of this study was to study how contrastive accent is realised phoneticall...
The article focuses on lexical relations of the Finnic languages. Here we studied whether lexical da...
This doctoral dissertation explores Finnish-speaking learners’ L2 pronunciation (second and foreign ...
Ternary length contrast is a rare phonological feature, investigated here both in terms of its reali...
The goal of the study was to examine Finnish university students’ perceptions of seven different var...
This thesis presents a perceptual study of difficulties met by native speakers of English in the pro...
The primary focus of this study is on dynamic quantity-related prosodic processes (reduction and len...
Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2009. Editors: Kri...
This folk linguistic and human geographic study deals with dialect awareness, dialect use and place ...
Tämän tutkimuksen aiheena on prosodian ja aksenttivariaatioiden esiintyminen lukion englannin ja ruo...
Swedish in Finnish surroundings Interaction, grammar and language contact in conversations within ...