Nordic Prosody

Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen/Jacques Koreman/
Wim A. van Dommelen (eds.)

Nordic Prosody

Proceedings of the XII^th Conference,
Trondheim 2016

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DOI 10.3726/b11152

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About the editors

Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His main research interest is phonology, and he has in particular worked on intonational aspects of Norwegian prosody.

Jacques Koreman is Professor of Phonetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His main research interests include phonetics and speech technology, with a special interest in computer-assisted pronunciation training.

Wim A. van Dommelen is Professor of Phonetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His research involves second language acquisition, segmental reduction and speaker recognition by the human listener.

About the book

This volume contains articles based on the presentations given at the Nordic Prosody XII conference, which was held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) in August 2016. The contributors investigate various prosodic aspects, including intonation, rhythm, speaking rate, intensity, and breathing, using approaches ranging from phonetic and phonological analysis to speech technology methods. While most of the studies examine read speech, some of them explore the prosodics of spontaneous speech. The languages that receive most attention are Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic as well as Estonian, Latgalian and Polish. In addition to the larger Nordic languages, several papers focus on regional languages spoken in these areas.

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Preface

Number twelve in the series of Nordic Prosody conferences took place in August 2016 and was hosted by the Department of Language and Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). It was the third time the conference was organized in Trondheim.

Ever since the first meeting in Lund in 1978 the conference has attracted researchers from the areas of phonetics and phonology, with presentations on a range of themes and languages, and using different methodologies. This increasing variation is also witnessed by the present proceedings.

A selection of sixteen papers presented at Nordic Prosody XII in Trondheim appear in a revised form in the present volume. In spite of the relatively small number of contributions, the themes cover a wide range of issues including both linguistic and instrumental-phonetic analyses of intonation, rhythm, speaking rate, intensity, and breathing phenomena in read and spontaneous speech. Apart from languages like Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish and Polish, also regional languages like Finland Swedish, Estonian Swedish and Latgalian are represented in this volume. Included in the proceedings is the written version of the talk given by the nestor of Norwegian intonation research and plenary speaker Thorstein Fretheim.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support for the conference and for the publication of the proceedings provided by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) and the Faculty of Humanities of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

The next Nordic Prosody conference in 2020 will be the second time it is organized in Denmark. The conference will be hosted by the University of Southern Denmark and will take place in Sønderborg.

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Thorstein Fretheim

The form and function of extrametrical, unaccented segments of East Norwegian utterances

Kätlin Aare, Pärtel Lippus

Some gender patterns in Estonian dyadic conversations

Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen

A note on accent 2 compounds in the Sunnmøre dialect

Kristján Árnason, Haukur Thorgeirsson

Tonality in earlier Icelandic

Eva Liina Asu, Pärtel Lippus, Heete Sahkai, Nele Salveste

F0 declination in read vs. spontaneous Estonian

Eva Liina Asu, Francis Nolan, Susanne Schötz

Rhythm in Estonian Swedish

Aleksandra Ćwiek, Marcin Włodarczak, Mattias Heldner, Petra Wagner