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Different loan sources as a reason for variability of some Estonian dialect words

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
Among other reasons, the phonetic variability of loanwords in Estonian dialects may reflect their origination from different but etymologically connected sources of borrowing.
Iris Metsmägi, Meeli Sedrik, Vilja Oja
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The Dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (lägge — mūär) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020
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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Classification of Swedish dialects using a hierarchical prosodic analysis [PDF]

open access: yesSpeech Prosody 2018, 2018
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Włodarczak, Marcin   +3 more
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The global regime of language recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There is no universally accepted working linguistic definition of a language; the distinction between a dialect and a language is a political question.
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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Verb inflection in the dialect of Gammalsvenskby [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2012
The dialect of Gammalsvenskby is the only surviving Scandinavian dialect in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Due to the complete absence of studies into the present-day state of the dialect, the most urgent task is to collect, classify and ...
Man'kov Aleksandr
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Authenticity, Boundaries, and Hybridity: Translating “Migrant and Minority Literature” from Swedish into Finnish

open access: yesInternational Journal of Literary Linguistics, 2016
This article analyzes the representation of linguistic variation in the Finnish translations of four Swedish coming-of-age stories depicting migrant or minority perspectives: Mikael Niemi’s 2000 Popular Music from Vittula, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s 2003 Ett
Simo Määttä
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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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Cultural dialects of real and synthetic emotional facial expressions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this article we discuss the aspects of designing facial expressions for virtual humans (VHs) with a specific culture. First we explore the notion of cultures and its relevance for applications with a VH.
Ruttkay, Zsófia
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Parallel dialectal-standard Swedish data

open access: yes, 2020
Data used in our Swedish normalization paper: Hämäläinen, M; Partanen, N & Alnajjar, K (2020) Normalization of Different Swedish Dialects Spoken in Finland. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities. This data is based on the data available at https://sls.finna.fi/Search/Results?view=map&filter[0]=~
Hämäläinen, Mika   +2 more
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Using Nigerian English in an international academic setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are teachers at the university; 2 ...
Cunningham, Una
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