Bryter finlandssvenskarna när de talar finska?
Kuronen, M. (2014). Bryter finlandssvenskarna när de talar finska?. Folkmålsstudier. Meddelanden från Föreningen för nordisk filologi., 52, 77-106. https://journal.fi/folkmalsstudier/article/view/82144
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The purpose of this study was to investigate if fluently bilingual Finland-Swedish
speakers have an accent in their Finnish, and whether this possible accent can be heard
by native Finnish listeners. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate what acoustical
features characterize a possible accent in the Finnish spoken by Finland-Swedish
speakers. To answer these questions two studies were carried out: a listening test with
55 native Finnish listeners who were asked to categorize 20 speakers as native or nonnative
speakers of Finnish, and if the speakers were regarded as non-native, how
strong the speaker’s accent was: weak, moderate, or strong. The 20 speakers included
native Finnish informants (4), Finland-Swedish speakers with Swedish as their L1
(15), and one speaker with Greek as his L1. The results of the listening test show that
the Finland-Swedish speaker group is heterogeneous: roughly one-third of the
speakers were categorized as native speakers of Finnish, another third of the speakers
caused problems for the listeners as the speakers were almost equally often classified
as 1) native speaker of Finnish or 2) a speaker with a weak accent. The last third of
the speakers was by an overwhelming majority of listeners categorized as non-native
Finns. The acoustical analysis shows that the most significant non-Finnish features
were shortening of phonologically long syllables in unstressed position, and relatively
short rhythmic phrases.
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