Syllable Reduction and Articulation Rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
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This investigation compares articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish and investigates differences in degrees of syllable deletion (reduction) between these three languages. For the investigation two sets of data are used: one consisting of recorded speech from radio news and another consisting of read sentences. The results from the comparative investigation show that in both data sets Danish exhibits a much larger degree of syllable reduction in speech than Norwegian and Swedish do. The finding that Danish words are shorter than their Norwegian and Swedish counterparts is viewed as a potentially contributing factor to problems that arise in interScandinavian communication.
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