Helge Sandøy's Report from Western Norway
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12.03.2014 The Norwegian experience The Norwegian experience (& ideas) • 6 municipalities • 1480 pupils at 13 schools • 280 teachers • 52 grown-ups at meetings/clubs etc. Ragnhild Lie Anderson & Edit Bugge & Helge Sandøy • In total 1812 respondents University of Bergen • (The Åsane-experiment included, 180 resp., cf. Copenhagen 24.2.2014 Anderson in Danske talesprog 10) 1 2 The six localities (pairs: rural-urban) • Midsund – Molde • Øygarden – Bergen • Hå - Stavanger 3 4 Varieties of interest Set of voices Test A: Rural -old Regionalcentre- A1 Midsund & Molde High (urban) National centre / B1 Molde SE Rural - young Regional centre - SE Low (urban) A2 Øygarden & Bergen B2 Bergen SE A3 Hå & Stavanger B3 Stavanger SE Test B: Regional centre - National centre / High (urban) SE - High Rural Regional centre - National centre / Low (urban) SE - Low • The SE voices are the same 5 6 1 12.03.2014 Test procedure Test voices Questionnaire 1: Topic: invitation - on the mobile phone - to go to the cinema 1. VGT / SEE 2. «What do you think this test was about?» Filled in on an extra (only female voices) page Questionnaire 2: 15 sec voice + 15 sec pause etc. .... LRT: Information: This test was about dialect / language • The varieties distributed as ABCDE CAEBD ADCBE 3. Consciously offered attitude: «Please rate the dialects in the following table based on your opinion of how most people in Norway would evaluate their prestige . ‘Prestige’ refers to • A selection from hundreds of recordings. The selection whether a dialect has a high or low social value. The value of 1 of voices and cuts were tested in our project group in represents the highest score, and 8 represents the lowest order to avoid «test noice» (other possibly influecing score.» factors than the variety) 4. Consciously offered attitude: « How nice do you think the dialects mentioned below are? On the scale, 1 corresponds to 7 ‘nicest’, and 8 corresponds to ‘least nice’.» 8 LRT: Consciously offered attitudes (nice)(blue=Southeastern Norway, results Norway=Oslo region, red=regional centre, green:rural) Øygarden Bergen (N = Hå Stavanger (N = Midsund • As the Danish ones? (N = 117) 215) (N = 42) 87) (N = 66) 1 Øygarden: Bergen: 2,27 Hå: 2,52 Stavanger: 2,33 Midsund: 1,34 Yes, as far as the consciously offered attitudes are 1,60 i.s 2 Bergensk: Stavanger: Frogner: 2,95 Molde: 2,73 concerned Fana: 2,75 1,70 3,17 3 Austlandsk: Frogner: Sandnes: 3,30 Eiganes: 3,56 Sunnmøre: 2,71 3,69 2,95 4 Arna: 3,93 Frogner: 3,56 Drammen: 3,57 Austlandet: 2,98 5 Sotra: 4,18 Eiganes: 4,10 Sandnes: 3,64 Drammen: Hå: 4,94 9 Drammen: 4.19 4,36 Consciously offered attitudes (prestige/status)(blue=Southeastern SEE: The two dimensions Norway=Oslo region, red=regional centre, green:rural) (dynamism-superiority) Øygarden Bergen Hå Stavanger Midsund Molde (N = (N = 113) (N = (N = 41) (N = 83 ) (N =65 ) 178) 222) • So far no Danish pattern 1 Bergen: Frogner: Frogner: Frogner: Austland: Aust: 1,76 (but still some work to do with most of the test sites) 1,59 2,04 2,22 1,68 1,65 2 Austland: Bergen: Stavanger: Drammen: Sunnmøre: Trøndelag: 1,92 2,94 2,85 2,88 2,41 2,57 3 Øygarden: Fana: Drammen: Stavanger: Molde: 2,76 Molde: 2,82 2,49 3,50 3,39 3,22 4 Dramme Eiganes: Eiganes: Midsund: Sunnmøre: n: 3,50 3,72 3,69 3,18 3,56 5 Arna: Sandnes: Sandnes: Fræna: 4,29 4,47 3,88 4,25 Sotra: Hå: 4,94 Hå: 5,28 11 12 4,55 2 12.03.2014 Order of voices .(Red=reg.centre, blue=national capital, green=rural region) Number of respondents - Åsane - resp. who had moved to the locality after 6 yrs. of age - resp. who guessed that it was about dialect/language - resp. who did not tick off in all 8 x 15 = 120 evaluation scales Midsund Molde Molde Ogna Stav StavSE Øygard Bergen Bergen Sum SE SE 52 72 72 33 71 61 80 176 165 782 13 14 Subconscious attitudes (pupils 15 yrs.) Mean ranks (A-tests = 2 x rural varieties) Midsund Molde (N = Øygarden Bergen (N Hå Stavanger 4,5 (N = 52) 72) (N = 89) = 176 ) (N = 33) (N = 71) 4 1 Roms: 3,39 SEast: 3,77 SEast: 3,70 SEast : 3,86 Jær-y: 3,48 Jær-y: 3,82 3,5 2 Bg-high: Bg-high: 3 SEast: 3,24 Mo-low: 3,49 Jær-o: 3,21 Jær-o: 2,96 RegCLow 3,53 3,82 2,5 RegCHigh 3 Mo-low: Roms Sunn: Bg-low: Bg-low: Stav-high: Stav-high: RegRurOld 2 RegRurYoung 3,14 :2,70 2,70 2,88 3,17 2,88 2,95 SE/NCentre 4 Mo-high: Stril-y: Stav-low: 1,5 Sunn: 2,64 Stril-y: 2,21 SEast: 2,91 2,33 2,77 2,74 1 5 Mo-high: Stril-o: Stav-low: Stril-o: 1,94 SEast: 2,68 0,5 2,58 2,13 2,37 0 Midsund Molde Reg Øygarden Bergen Reg Hå Stavanger Reg 15 16 Ranking order of voices Mean rank (B-tests = 2 x SE varieties) 4,5 4 3,5 3 RwgCLow 2,5 RegCHigh RegRur 2 SE/NCentreLow SE/NCentreHigh 1,5 1 0,5 0 Molde Au Bergen Au Stavanger Au 17 18 3 12.03.2014 Ranking order of voices (lines connect identical voices) Significant contribution? • Does the independent variable dialect make a significant contribution to the prediction of the variation in the dependent variable (is F Change sig <.05)? 19 20 The «noise» factors Significant contribution? • Do other independent variables make a significant contribution to the prediction of the variation in the Test locality Dialect dependent variable (is F Change sig <.05)? Molde SE NO Conclusion: Molde NO Dialect alone does not • Multiple linear hierarchical regression analysis Misund NO account for the Norwegian Stavanger SE YES Stavanger NO variation Hå NO Bergen SE NO Bergen NO Øygarden NO 21 22 Reference to Reference to Speech geographic Playback Speech geographic Playback Test locality Age Intro Pitch Dialect Test locality Age Intro Pitch Dialect speed locality order speed locality order Molde SE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Molde SE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Molde NO NO NO NO NO NO Molde NO NO NO NO NO NO Misund NO NO NO NO NO NO Misund NO NO NO NO NO NO Stavanger SE YES YES NO NO NO NO YES Stavanger SE YES YES NO NO NO NO YES Stavanger YES NO NO NO NO NO NO Stavanger YES NO NO NO NO NO NO Hå NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Hå NO NO NO NO NO NO NO Bergen SE YES YES YES NO NO NO NO Bergen SE YES YES YES NO NO NO NO Bergen NO YES NO NO NO NO Bergen NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES Øygarden NO NO NO NO NO Øygarden NO NO NO NO NO 23 24 4 12.03.2014 Pitch in the voices – and significant contribution (=S): Øygarden and Molde Reference to Speech geographic Playback Test locality Age Intro Pitch Dialect speed locality order Molde SE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO S S Molde NO NO NO NO NO NO Misund NO NO NO NO NO NO S Stavanger SE YES YES NO NO NO NO YES S Stavanger YES NO NO NO NO NO NO Hå NO NO NO NO NO NO NO S Bergen SE YES YES YES NO NO NO NO Bergen NO YES NO NO NO NO YES YES S Øygarden NO NO NO NO NO Spearman’s rho .729** 25 26 Significant contributions from factors Reference to geographic Test locality Age Intro Pitch Speech speed locality Playback order Dialect Molde austlandsk .202 .112 .078 .001 .007 .023 .374 Molde sunnmørsk .161 .075 .006 .083 .10 .062 Age Intro Pitch Misund .019 .012 .058 .037 .04 .096 Stavanger austlandsk .41 .17 .014 .037 .017 .011 .328 Stavanger Jærbu .271 .038 .00 .006 .249 .002 .402 Stavanger Hå .024 .05 .004 .022 .172 .00 .703 (SE) Bergen austlandsk .246 .363 .198 .027 .015 .002 .029 Bergen stril .01 .633 .00 .00 .002 .21 Bergen (SE) Øygarden .01 .688 .00 .00 .022 .21 Bergen Øygarden 27 28 Contribution from the various factors Conclusion 1 • «Noise factors» do better then dialect in accounting for 0,9 the evaluation (even though we tried to avoid extreme values of these factors) 0,8 0,7 Age 0,6 Intro Questions: Pitch 0,5 Speech speed • Is there a Norwegian pattern of ascribing values to Ref. to locality 0,4 voices? Playback order Dialect 0,3 • Are there regional patterns of ascribing values to voices? 0,2 0,1 0 Midsund Molde Molde SE Øygarden Bergen Bergen SE Hå Stavanger Stavanger SE 29 30 5 12.03.2014 Different national patterns w.r.t. determinant No national pattern in Norway. Perhaps a features/factors? regional one in Hordaland? • 1 0,9 • 0,8 • 0,7 Age • 0,6 Intro Pitch • 0,5 Speech speed Ref. to locality 0,4 • Playback order Dialect 0,3 • 0,2 • 0,1 • 0 Midsund Molde Molde SE Øygarden Bergen Bergen SE Hå Stavanger Stavanger SE 31 32 Is Norway a ‘regionalized’ country? Do broadcast media play a decisive role? a) If TV plays a role, we should expect the same pattern Gallup poll (conscious attitudes) december 2013 (Sentio & all over the country (So far we’ve found different Nationen): patterns) • N Norway: 61% like theirown dialect very much b) If radio plays a role, this may be different.