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American or British English? : Attitudes towards English dialects among Swedish pupils

open access: green, 2016
The two major varieties of English are American and British English. In Swedish compulsory school both varieties are taught. This essay examines the preferences and attitudes of pupils in 9th grades towards the two varieties, and if there are any gender differences.
Jessica Lenart
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Town and country: when dialect meets standard in urban environments: the case of Finland Swedish

open access: closedLinguistics, 2005
Finland Swedish is the name of the specific variety of Swedish in Finland that is spoken in Finland today by about 300,000 people, mainly settled on the western and southern coasts and in the archipelago in the southwest.In the 1990s a sociolinguistic project, "Urban Colloquial Swedish in Finland, " was carried out in four towns in this area: Jakobstad
Ann-Marie Ivars
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On the development of a quantity typology for Swedish dialects [PDF]

open access: goldSpeech Prosody 2002, 2002
Felix Schaeffler   +2 more
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Phonetics and phonology of the Swedish dialects - a project presentation and a database demonstrator

open access: green, 1999
A searchable database of speech samples from more than 100 Swedish dialects is being established for use in research and education. Each dialect is represented by at least 12 speakers. Recordings are made of spontaneous speech as well as words and phrases elicited with a number of specific research goals in mind.
Gösta Bruce   +3 more
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (rokäḷ—sirop) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2023
The dialect of the village of Gammalsvenskby belongs historically to the Swedish dialects of Estonia, which were spoken before World War II in the Noarootsi peninsula (Sw.
Alexander Mankov
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (raff — rokk) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2023
The dialect of the village of Gammalsvenskby belongs historically to the Swedish dialects of Estonia, which were spoken before World War II in the Noarootsi peninsula (Sw.
Alexander Mankov
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The Loanword mei(j)u in Finnic Languages; pp. 161-171 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2014
The custom of bringing home young birches and green branches for spring/summer festivities has been practised by Proto-Finnic as well as by Germanic peoples ever since pre-Christian times.
Vilja Oja
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