Exotic vowels in Swedish - an articulographic study of palatal vowels - West
SND-ID: snd1038-2. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002932
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Susanne Schötz - Lund university, Humanities Lab
Research principal
Lund University
- Humanities Lab
Description
The general object of this study is vowel production, specifically long palatal vowels in Swedish. In a cross-language comparison, Swedish has a fairly rich vowel system, and Swedish vowels have some particularly exotic and distinctive features. We focus on three specific issues: the crowding of vowels among the front, close vowels, particularly y and u, the diphthongisation of long vowels, and the special "damped" colour of i and y vowels. The main purpose is to analyse and understand the articulation of these vowels and their dynamics. We will use articulography which provides a three dimensional picture of tongue, lip and jaw movements. Phonetic studies of vowels have been mainly acoustic. Although there are a number of such studies of Swedish vowels, it is not possible to uniquely predict the articulation of a vowel from its acoustic properties. It is thus important and necessary to study the articulation of vowels more directly to get a more complete phonetic description of them. The current project primarily concerns basic research. By using articulography, we will increase the empirical
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Language
Population
About 15 participants each from the three dialects areas Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö
Time period(s) investigated
2011-01-01 – 2013-12-31
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Stockholm County, Göteborg Municipality, Malmö Municipality
Responsible department/unit
Humanities Lab
Contributor(s)
Johan Frid - Lund university, Humanities Lab
Ethics Review
Lund - Ref. 2011/430
Research area
Specific languages (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Language and linguistics (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Keywords
Phonetics, Dialect, Articulography, Palatal vowels, Articulation, Vowel production
Schötz, S, Frid, J, Löfqvist, A & Gustafsson, L 2013, Functional data analysis of tongue articulation in Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish /i:, y:, u-:/. i R Eklund (red.), in Proceedings of fonetik 2013
. Linköping University, s. 69-72, Linköping, Sweden, 12-13 June.
Schötz, S, Frid, J, Gustafsson, L & Löfqvist, A 2013, Functional Data Analysis of Tongue Articulation in Palatal Vowels: Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish /i:, y:, u-:/. in Proceedings of Interspeech 2013
. Interspeech, Lyon, 22 August.
Frid, J, Schötz, S & Löfqvist, A 2012, South Swedish diphthongisation: an articulographic and acoustic study of /u:/ in the Malmöhus dialect. in Proceedings of Fonetik 2012
. Proceedings of Fonetik 2012, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, s. 85-88, Gothenburg, Sweden, 30-1 June.
Schötz, S., Frid, J., Gustafsson, L & Löfqvist, A. 2014. Tongue articulation dynamics of /iː, yː, ʉ̟ː/ in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish. In Proceedings of Fonetik 2014, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. pp 17-22.
Frid, J., Schötz, S., Gustafsson, L, Löfqvist, A. 2015. A. Tongue articulation of front close vowels in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish, In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, August 10-14, 2015.
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