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FONETIK 2018 the Xxxth Swedish Phonetics Conference Gothenburg, June 7–8 Proceedings FONETIK 2018 The XXXth Swedish Phonetics Conference Gothenburg, June 7–8 音声学 Preface The XXX on the front page of this volume is not a place holder for an exact Roman numeral, but this year’s conference is in fact the thirtieth Swedish Phonetics Conference. Only twice have we not had the annual phonetics meeting, once in 1995 when ICPhS was held in Stockholm and last year in 2017 when Interspeech was held, also in Stockholm. We hope that this year’s meeting in Gothenburg will be as interesting and enjoyable as all earlier Swedish phonetics meetings, with both old and new members of our community from the Nordic countries and all around the world. We thank Fonetikstiftelsen for generous financial support. Gothenburg, June 2018 Åsa Abelin and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Proceedings FONETIK 2018 th The XXX Swedish Phonetics Conference, held at University of Gothenburg, June 7–8, 2018 Edited by Åsa Abelin and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science University and Department of Languages and Literatures University of Gothenburg Box 200, SE 405 30 Gothenburg © The Authors and the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science and Department of Languages and Literatures Printed by Reprocentralen, Humanisten, University of Gothenburg. Cover photo by Monica Havström FONETIK 2018, University of Gothenburg Preface The XXX on the front page of this volume is not a place holder for an exact Roman numeral, but this year’s conference is in fact the thirtieth Swedish Phonetics Conference. Only twice have we not had the annual phonetics meeting, once in 1995 when ICPhS was held in Stockholm and last year in 2017 when Interspeech was held, also in Stockholm. We hope that this year’s meeting in Gothenburg will be as interesting and enjoyable as all earlier Swedish phonetics meetings, with both old and new members of our community from the Nordic countries and all around the world. We thank Fonetikstiftelsen for generous financial support. Gothenburg, June 2018 Åsa Abelin and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Proceedings FONETIK 2018 th The XXX Swedish Phonetics Conference, held at University of Gothenburg, June 7–8, 2018 Edited by Åsa Abelin and Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science University and Department of Languages and Literatures University of Gothenburg Box 200, SE 405 30 Gothenburg © The Authors and the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science and Department of Languages and Literatures Printed by Reprocentralen, Humanisten, University of Gothenburg. Cover photo by Monica Havström FONETIK 2018, University of Gothenburg Previous Swedish Phonetics Conferences (from 1986) Contents https://www.ling.su.se/fonetik-2014/tidigare-konferenser Phonaesthemes in older Swedish dialects – the clusters fn-, gn-, skv-, pj- and kn- 1 Åsa Abelin Accentual falls and rises vary as a function of accompanying head and eyebrow movements 5 Gilbert Ambrazaitis and David House Språkbanken Tal: A national research infrastructure for speech technology 9 Jens Edlund and David House Productions of stop consonants, language perception and levels of agreement in 13 interactions between Swedish adolescents Julia Forsberg EMA-based head movements and phrasing: a preliminary study 17 Johan Frid, Malin Svensson Lundmark, Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Susanne Schötz and David House Exploring voice quality changes in words with stød 21 Gert Foget Hansen ‘Fax it up.’ – ‘Yes it does rather.’: the relationship between the TRAP, STRUT, and START vowels in Aberystwyth English 27 Míša Hejná Deep throat as a source of information 33 Mattias Heldner, Petra Wagner and Marcin Włodarczak Intelligibility of the alveolar [s] replacing the interdental [θ] in English words 39 Hyeseung Jeong and Bosse Thorén The perceptual effect of voicedness in laughter 43 Kristina Lundholm Fors and Ellen Breitholtz Perception and production of L2 prosody by Swedish learners – Summary and 45 application to the teaching using Japanese and Chinese data Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Does understanding written language imply understanding spoken language for 51 L2 users? Monica Nyberg A dual complexity gradient theory of speech perception 55 Mikael Roll FONETIK 2018, University of Gothenburg Previous Swedish Phonetics Conferences (from 1986) Contents I 1986 Uppsala University II 1988 Lund University Phonaesthemes in older Swedish dialects – the clusters fn-, gn-, skv-, pj- and kn- 1 III 1989 KTH Stockholm Åsa Abelin IV 1990 Lund University (Höör) V 1991 Umeå University (Lövånger) Accentual falls and rises vary as a function of accompanying head and eyebrow VI 1992 Stockholm University movements 5 VII 1993 Chalmers and Gothenburg University Gilbert Ambrazaitis and David House VIII 1994 Uppsala University –– 1995 (XIIIth ICPhS in Stockholm) Språkbanken Tal: A national research infrastructure for speech technology 9 IX 1996 KTH Stockholm (Nässlingen) Jens Edlund and David House X 1997 Umeå University XI 1998 Stockholm University Productions of stop consonants, language perception and levels of agreement in 13 XII 1999 Gothenburg University interactions between Swedish adolescents XIII 2000 Skövde University College Julia Forsberg XIV 2001 Lund University (Örenäs) XV 2002 KTH Stockholm EMA-based head movements and phrasing: a preliminary study 17 XVI 2003 Umeå University (Lövånger) Johan Frid, Malin Svensson Lundmark, Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Susanne Schötz and David House XVII 2004 Stockholm University XVIII 2005 Gothenburg University Exploring voice quality changes in words with stød 21 XIX 2006 Lund University Gert Foget Hansen XX 2007 KTH Stockholm XXI 2008 Gothenburg University ‘Fax it up.’ – ‘Yes it does rather.’: the relationship between the TRAP, STRUT, and XXII 2009 Stockholm University START vowels in Aberystwyth English 27 XXIII 2010 Lund University Míša Hejná XXIV 2011 KTH Stockholm XXV 2012 Gothenburg University Deep throat as a source of information 33 XXVI 2013 Linköping University Mattias Heldner, Petra Wagner and Marcin Włodarczak XXVII 2014 Stockholm University XXVIII 2015 Lund University Intelligibility of the alveolar [s] replacing the interdental [θ] in English words 39 XXIX 2016 KTH Stockholm Hyeseung Jeong and Bosse Thorén –– 2017 (Interspeech in Stockholm) The perceptual effect of voicedness in laughter 43 Kristina Lundholm Fors and Ellen Breitholtz Perception and production of L2 prosody by Swedish learners – Summary and 45 application to the teaching using Japanese and Chinese data Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Does understanding written language imply understanding spoken language for 51 L2 users? Monica Nyberg A dual complexity gradient theory of speech perception 55 Mikael Roll FONETIK 2018, University of Gothenburg Pronunciation of foreign names in public service radio: How can phonetic 61 transcriptions be of help? Michaël Stenberg Durational properties of word-initial consonants – an acoustic and articulatory 65 study of intra-syllabic relations in a pitch-accent language Malin Svensson Lundmark Acoustic results of pronunciation training 67 Bosse Thorén and Hyeseung Jeong Observations on the transitions from vowels to voiceless obstruents: a comparative study 73 Mechtild Tronnier Speech synthesis and evaluation at MTM 75 Christina Tånnander Teachers’ opinion on the teaching of Swedish pronunciation 81 Elisabeth Zetterholm Reduce speed now… for an intelligible pronunciation 83 Elisabeth Zetterholm, Harald Emgård and Birgitta Vahlén FONETIK 2018, University of Gothenburg Phonaesthemes in older Swedish dialects – the clusters fn-, gn-, skv-, pj- and kn- Åsa Abelin Department of philosophy, linguistics and theory of science, University of Gothenburg Abstract The purpose of this study is to find similarities and differences of onomatopoeic and sound symbolic words in older Swedish dialects, the so called genuine dialects, in comparison with contemporary usage. The comparison is both qualitative and quantitative. By making an inventory of older dialect data bases, we can establish onomatopoeia and sound symbolism in a way which is complementary to analyses already made of sound symbolism in standard Swedish. The questions are whether phonaesthemes have disappeared or been created new, whether words have disappeared or been created new, and whether the proportions of sound symbolic words and phonaesthemes are the same or not. The study has excerped words from the central Swedish dialect dictionary written by Rietz (1862-1867), which contains words from the middle of the 19th century. The method follows the procedure used for the establishment of phonaesthemes (consonant combinations with certain meanings) in present day standard Swedish (Abelin, 1999). The initial consonant clusters and all meanings which were found to be sound symbolic will be the basis for comparison. The percentually most common phonaesthemes in standard Swedish, fn-, gn-, skv-, pj-, kn-, were studied in the older dialects. The results show that 1) some phonaesthemes have disappeared, but no new phonasesthemes have appeared 2) many sound symbolic dialectal words have disappeared 3) distributions of meanings for clusters have changed 4) the order of the five most common sound symbolic clusters has not changed. Introduction phonaesthemes have disappeared or been created new. Some examples of new creations in child Phonaesthemes are part of sound symbolism in language, advertising language, literature or just language and can briefly be described as in general (including borrowings) are: bling consonant clusters which have in common a
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