Nordic Prosody

Contents: Carlos Gussenhoven: From Cologne to Arzbach: An account of the Franconian «tone reversal» - Oliver Niebuhr: The acoustic complexity of intonation - Daniel Aalto/Stina Ojala: Syllable durations and sign structure in spontaneous Finnish Sign Language - Åsa Abelin: Durations and F0 variation of Swedish emotional interjections in relation to perception - Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen: Sunnmøre word accents and last element stress revisited - Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen/Jacques Koreman/Isak Askheim: Eyebrow movements in prosody - Gilbert Ambrazaitis/Johan Frid: On the intonation of confirmations in Southern Swedish - Bistra Andreeva/Oliver Bott/Jacques Koreman/Torgrim Solstad: Prosodic effects of implicit causality in German and Norwegian? - Plínio A. Barbosa/Anders Eriksson/Joel Åkesson: Cross-linguistic similarities and differences of lexical stress realisation in Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese - Jens Edlund/Anna Hjalmarsson/Christina Tånnander: Unconventional methods in perception experiments - Michael Ejstrup: Survey on the perception of modern Danish dialects - Anders Eriksson/Plínio A. Barbosa/Joel Åkesson: Word stress in Swedish as a function of stress level, word accent and speaking style - Mattias Heldner/Anna Hjalmarsson/Jens Edlund: Backchannel relevance spaces - Angelika Hönemann/Hansjörg Mixdorff/Sascha Fagel: A preliminary analysis of prosodic features for a predictive model of facial movements in speech visualisation - Mayumi Hosono: Scandinavian Object Shift as the cause of downstep - Martina Huhtamäki: Does intonation matter in va(d)? Intonation of open-class repair initiators in Helsinki Swedish conversations - Riina Kasterpalu: Two different intonation contours of Estonian jaajaa - Katarzyna Klessa: Annotation of paralinguistic features for speaker characterization - Diana Krull: Rhythmic variability and Swedish-Estonian language contact - Natalia Kuznetsova: Finnic foot nucleus lengthening: From phonetics to phonology - Krista Lindqvist: Phenomena of sentence accent in Sweden Finnish and Finland Finnish - Elena Markus/Pärtel Lippus/Karl Pajusalu/Pire Teras: Three-way opposition of consonant quantity in Finnic and Saamic languages - Einar Meister/Lya Meister: Native and non-native production of Estonian quantity degrees: Comparison of Estonian, Finnish and Russian subjects - Hansjörg Mixdorff/Angelika Hönemann/Hongwei Ding: Perception of phrase boundaries and prominent syllables in German - Sara Myrberg/Tomas Riad: The prosodic word in Swedish - Tommi Nieminen/Michael L. O'Dell: Visualising speech rhythm: A survey of alternatives - Mari Nikonen/Minnaleena Toivola/Eija Aho: Prosodic chunking in non-native Finnish - Marc Pierce: The Onset Principle in Finnish - Mareike Plüschke/Jonathan Harrington: The domain of phrase-final lengthening in Estonian - Mikael Roll/Merle Horne: Right- and left-edge boundary tones in syntactic processing - Fedor Rozhanskiy: Vowel length as a distinctive feature of case forms in Votic - Heete Sahkai/Mari-Liis Kalvik/Meelis Mihkla: Prosodic effects of Information Structure in Estonian - Nele Salveste: Focus perception in Estonian: Is it governed by syntax or by prosody? - Susanne Schötz/Eva Liina Asu: An acoustic study of accentuation in Estonian Swedish compounds - Pelle Söderström/Mikael Roll/Merle Horne: Effects of task on the processing of Swedish word accents: A reaction time and response time study - Christopher Spahr: Rethinking the morphophonology of Estonian quantity - Sofia Strömbergsson/Jens Edlund/David House: Questions and reported speech in Swedish dialogues - Kari Suomi/Einar Meister: F0 comparison of Northern Estonian and Northern