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The perceptual importance of falling pitch for speakers from different dialects of Swedish

Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine LU (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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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
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yes
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b2360437-78a8-4903-acfa-a369cd4f1407
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https://journals.lub.lu.se/LWPL/article/view/23266/20725
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  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 across dialects, additional dialect-dependent facilitation effects were found.}},
  author       = {{Gosselke Berthelsen, Sabine}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of Fonetik 2021 : Lund, June 8–9, 2021}},
  editor       = {{Roll, Mikael and Hjortdal, Anna}},
  issn         = {{0280-526X}},
  keywords     = {{Swedish; word accents; tone perception; tone learning; dialectal variation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{7--13}},
  publisher    = {{Center for Language and Literature, Lund University}},
  series       = {{Lund Working Papers in Linguistics}},
  title        = {{The perceptual importance of falling pitch for speakers from different dialects of Swedish}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/99454271/LPWL56_GosselkeBerthelsen.pdf}},
  volume       = {{56}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}