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Getting rid of my accent

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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 81 of 84
15 January 2013 at 11:54pm | IP Logged 
I still think that kaptengröt meant something like "register" - we know the difference between a "deep" voice and a "high-pitched" voice.
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 Message 82 of 84
16 January 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged 
In Norwegian, the pitch accent of isolated words can change when these words are put together into a sentence (as in Mandarin). This is called ''a Trondheim rule/model'',
and is similar to Fujisaki model in Japanese:

http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100828.pdf

Edited by Medulin on 16 January 2013 at 5:17pm

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 Message 83 of 84
16 January 2013 at 8:10pm | IP Logged 
Same thing in Swedish, and especially if the word is the first (or last) part of a multisyllable word.
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 Message 84 of 84
23 June 2013 at 5:03pm | IP Logged 
kaptengröt, thanks for your insight. It has taken me a while to come back and respond, but I've been thinking about my vowels ever since you mentioned them. I am african-american, but I don't know how my vowels differ from other people's. Can you tell me exactly what the differences are?


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