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Expressing ‘confirmation’ in Swedish: the interplay of word and utterance prosody
Gilbert Ambrazaitis
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In this paper, an exploratory study on the prosodic signaling of confirmation in Swedish is presented, where pairs of subjects read short dialogs, constructed around selected target words, in a conversational style.Abstract:
An exploratory study on the prosodic signaling of ‘confirmation’ in Swedish is presented. Pairs of subjects read short dialogs, constructed around selected target words, in a conversational style. A falling utterance intonation was found on the target word, and the signaling of word prosody (lexical pitch accent) appeared to be, to a certain degree, optional.read more
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Phonetic interpretation of the word accent contrast in Swedish
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