ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Rhythm in Regional Variants of Standard Danish

Nina Grønnum

Institute of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The acoustic analysis is an attempt to establish the durational correlates of differences in perceived rhythm in six regional variants of Standard Danish. Durational relations between vowels and consonants in disyllabic sequences vary considerably across the six regions, but the correlation with differences in perceived rhythm is nearly nil. F0 patterns seem to be the main determinants of perceived rhythm.

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Bibliographic reference.  Grønnum, Nina (1993): "Rhythm in regional variants of standard danish", In Prosody-1993, 20-23.