ISSN 0280-526X Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature General Linguistics Phonetics Working Papers 52. 2006 Proceedings from Fonetik 2006 Lund, June 7–9, 2006 Edited by Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Susanne Schötz Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature General Linguistics Phonetics Working Papers 52. 2006 Proceedings from F onetik 2006 Lund, June 7–9, 2006 Edited by Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Susanne Schötz Working Papers Department of Linguistics and Phonetics Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University Box 201 S-221 00 LUND Sweden Fax +46 46 2224210 http://www.sol.lu.se/ This issue was edited by Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Susanne Schötz © 2006 The Authors and the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University ISSN 0280-526X Printed in Sweden, Mediatryck, Lund, 2006 i Preface The Proceedings of the Nineteenth Swedish Phonetics Conference, Fonetik 2006, com- prise this volume of the Working Papers from the Department of Linguistics and Phonet- ics at Lund University. Fonetik 2006 held at the Centre for Languages and Literature, June 7-9, 2006, is one in the series of yearly conferences for phoneticians and speech scientists in Sweden which regularly also attract participants from Denmark, Finland and Norway and sometimes from other countries as well. There are 38 contributions represented in this volume. A large variety of topics are covered in the papers, and we think that the volume gives a representative overview of current phonetics research in Sweden. We would like to thank all contributors to the Proceedings. We would like to acknowl- edge the valuable support from The Swedish Phonetics Foundation (Fonetikstiftelsen) and from The Centre for Languages and Literature and Lund University Faculty of the Hu- manities and Theology. Lund, May 2006 The Organizing Committee Gilbert Ambrazaitis, Gösta Bruce, Johan Frid, Per Lindblad, Susanne Schötz, Anders Sjöström, Joost van de Weijer, Elisabeth Zetterholm ii Previous Swedish Phonetics Conferences (from 1986) I 1986 Uppsala University II 1988 Lund University III 1989 KTH Stockholm IV 1990 Umeå University (Lövånger) V 1991 Stockholm University VI 1992 Chalmers and Göteborg University VII 1993 UppsalaUniversity VIII 1994 Lund University (Höör) –– 1995 (XIII th ICPhS in Stockholm) IX 1996 KTH Stockholm (Nässlingen) X 1997 Umeå University XI 1998 Stockholm University XII 1999 Göteborg University XIII 2000 Skövde University College XIV 2001 Lund University (Örenäs) XV 2002 KTH Stockholm XVI 2003 Umeå University (Lövånger) XVII 2004 Stockholm University XVIII 2005 Göteborg University iii Contents Emilia Ahlberg, Julia Backman, Josefin Hansson, Maria Olsson, and Anette Lohmander Acoustic Analysis of Phonetically Transcribed Initial Sounds in Babbling Sequences from Infants with and without Cleft Palate .............................................................................1 Gilbert Ambrazaitis and Gösta Bruce Perception of South Swedish Word Accents............................................................................5 Jonas Beskow, Björn Granström, and David House Focal Accent and Facial Movements in Expressive Speech ...................................................9 Ulla Bjursäter A Study of Simultaneous-masking and Pulsation-threshold Patterns of a Steady-state Synthetic Vowel: A Preliminary Report ................................................................................13 Petra Bodén and Julia Gro e Youth Language in Multilingual Göteborg ...........................................................................17 Rolf Carlson, Kjell Gustafson, and Eva Strangert Prosodic Cues for Hesitation ................................................................................................21 Frantz Clermont and Elisabeth Zetterholm F-pattern Analysis of Professional Imitations of “hallå” in three Swedish Dialects...........25 Una Cunningham Describing Swedish-accented English ..................................................................................29 Wim A. van Dommelen Quantification of Speech Rhythm in Norwegian as a Second Language..............................33 Jens Edlund and Mattias Heldner /nailon/ – Online Analysis of Prosody...................................................................................37 Olov Engwall Feedback from Real & Virtual Language Teachers .............................................................41 Lisa Gustavsson, Ellen Marklund, Eeva Klintfors, and Francisco Lacerda Directional Hearing in a Humanoid Robot ........................................................................... 45 Gert Foget Hansen and Nicolai Pharao Microphones and Measurements ..........................................................................................49 Mattias Heldner and Jens Edlund Prosodic Cues for Interaction Control in Spoken Dialogue Systems ...................................53 Pétur Helgason SMTC – A Swedish Map Task Corpus ..................................................................................57 Snefrid Holm The Relative Contributions of Intonation and Duration to Degree of Foreign Accent in Norwegian as a Second Language....................................................................................61 iv Merle Horne The Filler EH in Swedish ......................................................................................................65 Per-Anders Jande Modelling Pronunciation in Discourse Context....................................................................69 Christian Jensen Are Verbs Less Prominent?...................................................................................................73 Yuni Kim Variation and Finnish Influence in Finland Swedish Dialect Intonation .............................77 Diana Krull, Hartmut Traunmüller, and Pier Marco Bertinetto Local Speaking Rate and Perceived Quantity: An Experiment with Italian Listeners .........81 Jonas Lindh A Case Study of /r/ in the Västgöta Dialect...........................................................................85 Jonas Lindh Preliminary Descriptive F0-statistics for Young Male Speakers..........................................89 Robert McAllister, Miyoko Inoue, and Sofie Dahl L1 Residue in L2 Use: A Preliminary Study of Quantity and Tense-lax...............................93 Yasuko Nagano-Madsen and Takako Ayusawa Cross-speaker Variations in Producing Attitudinally Varied Utterances in Japanese ........97 Daniel Neiberg, Kjell Elenius, Inger Karlsson, and Kornel Laskowski Emotion Recognition in Spontaneous Speech .....................................................................101 Susanne Schötz Data-driven Formant Synthesis of Speaker Age .................................................................105 Rein Ove Sikveland How do we Speak to Foreigners? – Phonetic Analyses of Speech Communication between L1 and L2 Speakers of Norwegian ........................................................................109 Maria Sjöström, Erik J. Eriksson, Elisabeth Zetterholm, and Kirk P. H. Sullivan A Switch of Dialect as Disguise ..........................................................................................113 Gabriel Skantze, David House, and Jens Edlund Prosody and Grounding in Dialog......................................................................................117 Eva Strangert and Thierry Deschamps The Prosody of Public Speech – A Description of a Project...............................................121 Katrin Stölten Effects of Age on VOT: Categorical Perception of Swedish Stops by Near-native L2 Speakers ................................................................................................125 Kari Suomi Stress, Accent and Vowel Durations in Finnish..................................................................129 Bosse Thorén Phonological Demands vs. System Constraints in an L2 Setting........................................133 Hartmut Traunmüller Cross-modal Interactions in Visual as Opposed to Auditory Perception of Vowels ..........137 v Marcus Uneson Knowledge-light Letter-to-Sound Conversion for Swedish with FST and TBL ..................141 Sidney Wood The Articulation of Uvular Consonants: Swedish...............................................................145 Niklas Öhrström and Hartmut Traunmüller Acoustical Prerequisites for Visual Hearing ......................................................................149 Lund University, Centre for Languages & Literature, Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics 1 Working Papers 52 (2006), 1–4 Acoustic Analysis of Phonetically Transcribed Initial Sounds in Babbling Sequences from Infants with and without Cleft Palate Emilia Ahlberg, Julia Backman, Josefin Hansson, Maria Olsson, and Anette Lohmander Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology/Speech Pathology, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University {gusahemi|gusbacju|gushanjos}@student.gu.se, [email protected], [email protected] Abstract The aim of this study was to compare acoustic analysis of initial sound in babbling with corresponding phonetic transcription. Two speech pathologists had transcribed eight babbling sequences with total disagreement about whether the initial phoneme was a vowel or a plosive. After discussion, however, a consensus judgment was reached. To decide about the initial phoneme, an acoustic analysis was performed. Because of the deficient quality of some of the recordings, the results of the acoustic analysis were not completely reliable. However, the results