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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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Colección: | Studies in language variation ;
v. 10. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027273840 9027273847 9027234906 9789027234902 1280873361 9781280873362 9786613714671 6613714674 |