Exotic vowels in Swedish - an articulographic study of palatal vowels - East
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 knowledge of vowel production in general, and extend our knowledge of the articulatory dynamics of palatal vowels in Swedish in particular. Potential applications of our study are in logopedics and language teaching. Data has been collected from the Stockholm area.
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.
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.
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.
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