SweDia 2000 Research Database

The material was collected in two databases- one for research and one for the general public. The Research Database will be available to researchers in linguistics, Scandinavian languages, etc. The general database is addressed to interested individuals, schools, libraries, etc. Regardless of whether you are a researcher, student, private individual or anything else, the material cannot be used for any other purpose than research and/or education.

The research database consists of recordings of a little more than 1300 speakers representing 107 Swedish dialects. The durations of the recordings vary between 25 minutes and over one hour (typically 30 to 40 minutes). Each recording consist of two major parts. One part consisting of controlled material where specific aspects of Swedish phonology are elicited and one part containing spontaneous speech in the form of informal interviews or dialogues between two speakers of the dialect. The controlled material was elicited by the interviewers using crossword like word games in order to avoid any influence of the interviewers own pronunciation of the target words. The material has three parts 1) A wordlist containing words from which the vowel and consonant systems of the dialect can be derived, 2) a wordlist from which the phonological quantity system may be derived and, 3) a list of phrases from which stress and accent patterns may be derived. Typical durations of the controlled and spontaneous material are 10-15 minutes and 15-25 minutes respectively. Database format: The research database is hosted on a server at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University. The meta data standard used for the database is the one defined by the ISLE Meta Data Initiative (IMDI).- utkast

Purpose:
The purpose is to document and study a large number of Swedish dialects as they sound around the turn of the century 2000. The documentation is done through recordings of dialect speakers for a total of 107 locations in Sweden and in the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland and on Åland.

Archiving:
The material can be found at the Dialect Archive in Gothenburg (DAG). For more details about DAG, visit: https://www.isof.se/om-oss/kontakt/avdelningen-for-arkiv-och-forskning-i-goteborg.html Show less..