The perceptual importance of falling pitch for speakers from different dialects of Swedish
(2021) Fonetik 2021 In Lund Working Papers in Linguistics 56. p.7-13- Abstract
- Falling pitch has long been argued to be a key feature in the distinction of Swedish pitch accents. In this paper, neurophysiological and behavioural evidence substantiating the perceptual importance of HL pitch contours at the word level is discussed. When presentedwith novel words, Swedes, regard-less of dialect,preattentively distinguished meaningfulwords with falling pitch.Falling pitch was also facilitative for tone mismatch detection.These responses tomeaningful HL contours in foreign words werelikely based on transfer from the native tongue, thus emphasisingthe importance of falling pitch in the discrimination of word accents in four Swedish dialectareas. However, while responses to falls were facilitated... (More)
- Falling pitch has long been argued to be a key feature in the distinction of Swedish pitch accents. In this paper, neurophysiological and behavioural evidence substantiating the perceptual importance of HL pitch contours at the word level is discussed. When presentedwith novel words, Swedes, regard-less of dialect,preattentively distinguished meaningfulwords with falling pitch.Falling pitch was also facilitative for tone mismatch detection.These responses tomeaningful HL contours in foreign words werelikely based on transfer from the native tongue, thus emphasisingthe importance of falling pitch in the discrimination of word accents in four Swedish dialectareas. However, while responses to falls were facilitated across dialects, additional dialect-dependent facilitation effects were found. (Less)
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- author
- Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Swedish, word accents, tone perception, tone learning, dialectal variation
- host publication
- Proceedings of Fonetik 2021 : Lund, June 8–9, 2021 - Lund, June 8–9, 2021
- series title
- Lund Working Papers in Linguistics
- editor
- Roll, Mikael and Hjortdal, Anna
- volume
- 56
- pages
- 7 - 13
- publisher
- Center for Language and Literature, Lund University
- conference name
- Fonetik 2021
- conference location
- Sweden
- conference dates
- 2021-06-08 - 2021-06-09
- ISSN
- 0280-526X
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- b2360437-78a8-4903-acfa-a369cd4f1407
- alternative location
- https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/23266/20725
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