Aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects
In this paper an aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects is proposed by means of multidimensional scaling (MDS). The Gap statistic showed that no statistically significant partitioning of Swedish dialects can be made based on vowel pronunciation, which means that the dialects form a true linguistic continuum.
Leinonen, Therese
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Human Recognition of Swedish Dialects
Our recent work within the research projectSIMULEKT (Simulating Intonational Varieties of Swedish) involves a pilot perceptiontest, used for detecting tendencies in humanclustering of Swedish dialects.
Beskow, Jonas, +4 more
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Experiments with Synthesis of Swedish Dialects
We describe ongoing work on synthesizing Swedish dialects with an HMM synthesizer. A prototype synthesizer has been trained on alarge database for standard Swedish read by a professional male voice talent.
Gustafson, Joakim,, Beskow, Jonas,
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Ostseefinnisch tüttV, titt und tita. The Finnic tüttV, titt and tita; pp. 182-190 [PDF]
Usually the nouns tüttö, tütti, tüttü and their other phonetic variants are considered to be derivatives of the noun tütar/tütär âdaughterâ. Most of the occurrences of tüttö, mainly meaning âmaiden, unmarried womanâ belong to the north ...
Vilja Oja
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (mäitjande — mǖrar) [PDF]
This paper presents new material for the dictionary of the present-day dialect of Staroshvedkoye (Gammalsvenskby), the only Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Alexander Mankov
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (-n — ne-?re) [PDF]
This paper presents new material for the dictionary of the present-day dialect of Staroshvedkoye (Gammalsvenskby), the only Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Alexander Mankov
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This article compares two manuscript dictionaries, that of John Bradby Blake and Johan Pontin. These dictionaries are Cantonese-English and Cantonese-Swedish respectively, and were both created as a result of a stay in the trading hub of Canton in the ...
Lisa Hellman
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Phonetics and phonology of the Swedish dialects - a project presentation and a database demonstrator [PDF]
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.
Bruce, Gösta +3 more
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Phonological quantity in Swedish dialects : typological aspects, phonetic variation and diachronic change [PDF]
PD5711, ISO 639-3 : swe, Swedish language ...
Schaeffler, Felix
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (mä — mäitje) [PDF]
This paper presents new material for the dictionary of the present-day dialect of Staroshvedkoye (Gammalsvenskby), the only Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Alexander Mankov
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