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1. 6. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

   Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

3. 7. Voice Imitation : A Phonetic Study of Perceptual Illusions and Acoustic Success

   Författare :Elisabeth Zetterholm; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; impersonation; Voice and speech imitation; target voice; individual voice; pitch register; voice quality; prosody; semantic information; phonology; dialect; articulatory timing; speech style; Phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is about voice imitations, more specifically impersonation. Questions are raised about the uniqueness of a person’s voice and speech behaviour and if it is possible to get close to another speaker’s voice and speech. Four main research questions are investigated in different studies. LÄS MER

4. 8. Islescapes : Estonian small islands and islanders through three centuries

   Författare :Tiina Peil; Michael Jones; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Estonian history; island community; island landscape as accumulation; life space; and image; change; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis applies a modification of the concept of landscape to embody physical settings, social behaviour and affixed meanings. The argument focuses on both how a specific environment was created as well as perceived on four Estonian islands from the late seventeenth century until the present. LÄS MER

5. 9. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

   Författare :Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. LÄS MER

7. 10. Vrist - brist - rist : Utvecklingen av gammalt uddljudande wr i nordiska, särskilt svenska, dialekter

   Författare :Gerd Eklund; Institutet för språk och folkminnen; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; development of wr-; Old Scandinavian; Old Swedish; Swedish dialects; loss of w; differentiation; metathesis; sound change; phonetic tendency; Dialekter; Dialektforskning; Dialectology;

   Sammanfattning : The Germanic initial sound combination wr (e.g. in *wrītan 'write') has not been preserved in any standard language. In the Scandinavian languages the development of this sound combination has resulted in five different initial sounds or sound combinations, namely rw, r, w, br and vr. LÄS MER