EXPRESSING 'CONFIRMATION' IN SWEDISH: THE INTERPLAY OF WORD AND UTTERANCE PROSODY

Gilbert Ambrazaitis
Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University

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An exploratory study on the prosodic signaling of 'confirmation' in Swedish is presented. Pairs of subjects read short dialogs, constructed around selected target words, in a conversational style. A falling utterance intonation was found on the target word, and the signaling of word prosody (lexical pitch accent) appeared to be, to a certain degree, optional.

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