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Swiss German intonation patterns /

Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has, unt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leemann, Adrian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Studies in language variation ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has, until today, not been examined systematically. The aim of this study is to analyze natural Swiss German fundamental frequency behavior according to linguistic, paralinguistic, and extralinguistic variables, using statistical tests against the backdrop of detecting dialect-specific patterns as well as c.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027273840
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9789027234902
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9781280873362
9786613714671
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