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<strong>Proceedings</strong>, FONETIK <strong>2009</strong>, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm UniversitySwedish as an influence from and adaptation toEast Central Swedish. Also the occurrence ofthe fall-rise can be seen as an adaptation toWest Swedish intonation. The addition of a riseafter the falling gesture resulting in a fall-rise(typical of West Central Swedish) would – for aSouth Swedish speaker – appear to be less of aconcession than the substitution of a fallingpitch gesture with a rising one. The added riseafter the fall for phrase-initial accent I does notseem to alter the intonational phrasing in a fundamentalway. But even if a rising pitch gesturefor initial accent I may appear to be a morefundamental change of the phrase intonation, itstill seems to be a feasible modification ofSouth Swedish phrase intonation. The integrationof a rising pattern in this phrase positiondoes not appear to disturb the general structureof South Swedish phrase intonation. Our impressionis further that having a rising pitchgesture on the first accent I word followed by aregular falling gesture on the second word (creatinga kind of hat pattern as it were) does notchange the equal prominence to be expected forthe successive words of the phrase under studyeither. Moreover, a pitch rise in the beginningof an intonation unit (as well as a fall at the endof a unit) could be seen as a default choice forintonational phrasing, if the language or dialectin question does not impose specific constraintsdictated for example by features of accentuation.[computer program]. http://www.praat.org/,visited 30-Mar-09.Bruce G. (2007) Components of a prosodic typologyof Swedish intonation. In Riad T.and Gussenhoven C. (eds) Tones andTunes, Volume 1, 113-146, Berlin: Moutonde Gruyter.Elenius K. (1999) Two Swedish SpeechDat databases- some experiences and results.Proc. of Eurospeech 99, 2243-2246.Elert C.-C. (1994) Indelning och gränser inomområdet <strong>för</strong> den nu talade svenskan - en aktuelldialektografi. In Edlund L. E. (ed) Kulturgränser- myt eller verklighet, Umeå,Sweden: Diabas, 215-228.Gårding E. (1977) The Scandinavian word accents.Lund, Gleerup.Gårding E. and Lindblad P. (1973) Constancyand variation in Swedish word accent patterns.Working Papers 7. Lund: Lund University,Phonetics Laboratory, 36-110.Meyer E. A. (1937) Die Intonation imSchwedischen, I: Die Sveamundarten. StudiesScand. Philol. Nr. 10. Stockholm University.Meyer E. A. (1954) Die Intonation imSchwedischen, II: Die Sveamundarten.Studies Scand. Philol. Nr. 11. StockholmUniversity.AcknowledgementsThis paper was initially produced as an invitedcontribution to a workshop on phrase-initialpitch contours organised by Tomas Riad andSara Myrberg at the Scandinavian LanguagesDepartment, Stockholm University in March<strong>2009</strong>. It is related to the SIMULEKT project(cf. Beskow et al., 2008), a co-operation betweenPhonetics at Lund University and SpeechCommunication at KTH Stockholm, funded bythe Swedish Research Council 2007-<strong>2009</strong>.ReferencesBeskow J., Bruce G., Enflo L., Granström B.,and Schötz S. (alphabetical order) (2008)Recognizing and Modelling Regional Varietiesof Swedish. <strong>Proceedings</strong> of Interspeech2008, Brisbane, Australia.Boersma P. and Weenink D. (<strong>2009</strong>) Praat: doingphonetics by computer (version 5.1)47

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