Eva Strangert

Temporal effects of focus in Swedish

The four experiments reported concern the amount and domain of lengthening associated with focal accents in Swedish. Word, syllable and segment durations were measured in read sentences with focus ...

F/sub 0/ declination in read-aloud and spontaneous speech

The paper deals with a prosodic comparison of spontaneous and read-aloud speech. More specifically, the study reports data on F/sub 0/ declination in these two speaking modes using Swedish materials. For both speaking styles the analysis revealed negative slopes, a steepness-duration dependency with declination being less steep in longer utterances than in shorter ones and resetting at utterance boundaries. However, there was a difference in degree of declination between the two speaking styles, read-aloud speech in general having steeper slopes, a more apparent time dependency and stronger resetting than spontaneous speech.

A cross-cultural comparison of American, Palestinian, and Swedish perception of charismatic speech

Perception of charisma, the ability to infuence others by virtue of ones personal qualities, appears to be infuenced to some extent by cultural factors. We compare results of five studies of chari ...