Documentation of Gutnish phonetics and phonology

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Caspar Jordan - University of Gothenburg, SND

Description

This study constitutes a basic description of the phonetics and phonology of the Gutnish language which is spoken in the Swedish province Gotland. Based on original recordings collected by me in Gotland during the summer of 2011 the vowel and consonant inventory is mapped, phonotactic rules are established and stress and pitch accents patterns described. The introduction gives some background information about the language and tries to evaluate the linguistic situation in Gotland. Throughout, local variation is acknowledged in an attempt to show the diversity but also the instability of the language.

Purpose:

The aim of this study was to gather sound recordings of speakers of Gutnish and to use them to describe phonteic and phonological traits of the Gutnish language. I also wanted to provide some comments on the linguistic status of Gutnish.

Subject area

Language and linguistics (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature, General Language Studies and Linguistics, Specific Languages (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

nordic languages, guthnic, indoeuropean languages, texts, speach, dialect, linguistics, intonation, gutnish, phonetics, germanic languages, accent

Principal organisation

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Responsible department/unit

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Caspar Jordan - University of Gothenburg, SND

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0145

Description

This study constitutes a basic description of the phonetics and phonology of the Gutnish language which is spoken in the Swedish province Gotland. Based on original recordings collected by me in Gotland during the summer of 2011 the vowel and consonant inventory is mapped, phonotactic rules are established and stress and pitch accents patterns described. The introduction gives some background information about the language and tries to evaluate the linguistic situation in Gotland. Throughout, local variation is acknowledged in an attempt to show the diversity but also the instability of the language.

Purpose:

The aim of this study was to gather sound recordings of speakers of Gutnish and to use them to describe phonteic and phonological traits of the Gutnish language. I also wanted to provide some comments on the linguistic status of Gutnish.

Time period(s) investigated

2011-06-28 — 2011-09-15

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Gotland County, Gotland Municipality, Fårö Parish, Östergarn Parish, Stånga-Burs Parish, Alva, Hemse and Rone Parish

Geographic description: Gotland

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive
The selection was made with the help of the secretary of the Gutnish Society (Gutamålsgillet) who contacted a number of the society's members and asked them whether they would be willing to participate in the study.

Subject area

Language and linguistics (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature, General Language Studies and Linguistics, Specific Languages (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

nordic languages, guthnic, indoeuropean languages, texts, speach, dialect, linguistics, intonation, gutnish, phonetics, germanic languages, accent

Contact for questions about the data

Caspar Jordan

Associated documentation

Documentation of Gutnish phonetics and phonology.pdf

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Publications

Jordan, Caspar. 2011. Documentation of Gutnish Phonetics and Phonology. [Unpublished MA thesis].

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Documentation of Gutnish phonetics and phonology

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Caspar Jordan - University of Gothenburg, SND

Description

The dataset contains recordings of 11 speakers of Gutnish with metadata about each recording and phonetic transcriptions of some of the recorded words. The recordings contain both conversation and word list elicitation.

The data were collected as lengthy recordings and then words and phrases were cut out to facilitate analysis and transcription.

Keywords

texts, phonetics, dialect, speach, intonation, accent, linguistics, indoeuropean languages, germanic languages, nordic languages, guthnic, gutnish

Data format / data structure

Text

Still image

Audio

Time period(s) investigated

2011-06-28 — 2011-09-15

Published: 2014-12-19
Last updated: 2020-05-05