Prosodic Characteristics of Orkney and Shetland Dialects: An Experimental Approach


Klaske van Leyden


Title
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 : General introduction
Chapter 2 : Orkney and Shetland: history and language
Chapter 3 : The relationship between vowel and consonant duration in Orkney and Shetland dialects
Chapter 4 : Prosody versus segments in the identification of Orkney and Shetland dialects
Chapter 5 : A contrastive acoustic investigation of Orkney and Shetland prosody
Chapter 6 : Pitch-peak alignment versus overall pitch level in the identification of Orkney and Shetland dialects
Chapter 7 : Summary and conclusion
References
Appendices
Samenvatting in het Nederlands
Summary in English
Curriculum vitae, Acknowledgements
Complete text
Cover