Julia Forsberg

Julia Forsberg
Stockholm University | SU · Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Doctor of Philosophy

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Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language proficiencies. The data consist of interviews wher...
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In the present study, four teachers’ views on grammar instruction for newly arrived adolescents are explored through semi-structured interviews focusing on the subject Swedish as a second language, and the varied ways in which the teachers include grammar in their teaching. The topics that emerge through the interviews are extracted through ethnogr...
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English phonetics and phonology often focus on improving learners’ pronunciation. However, phonological processing is ‘a two-way street’ involving both speaker and listener. Thus, pronunciation instruction in this globalized time needs to be complemented with ways to help listeners understand a wide range of accents, thereby challenging the native...
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(To appear in Ranam 55) English phonetics and phonology often focus on improving learners’ pronunciation. However, phonological processing is ‘a two-way street’ involving both speaker and listener. Thus, pronunciation instruction in this globalized time needs to be complemented with ways to help listeners understand a wide range of accents, thereby...
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The UK is facing important changes in the near future, with Brexit, i.e. the UK leaving the European Union (EU), looming ever more closely on the horizon. These important political and economic changes will certainly have an influence on Europe as a whole, and have had linguistic consequences for the English language, such as Brexit-related neologi...
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Background/aims: This study investigates a possible merger in the early stages between /i:/ and /y:/ among young speakers in Gothenburg, Sweden. Methods: (1) A large-scale online perception experiment testing listeners' abilities to identify the two vowels and (2) acoustic analysis of 705 vowels from 19 speakers. Results: The perception study...
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This paper compares teaching practices of English as a foreign language in Sweden and Germany based on a questionnaire targeted at investigating teachers’ experiences and views on language use, giving a snapshot of teaching practices in classrooms in the two countries. In this regard, the focus is on the following questions: Which target varieties...
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Intonation features and the interpretation of meaning were studied in recorded interactions between Swedish adolescents performing a map-task game. Dyadic interactions of 6 female speakers from one Gothenburg school were analysed with regard to F0 range and direction of final F0 contour in 193 utterances of "OK". These utterances were also analysed...
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JOLANTA SZPYRA-KOZŁOWSKA & EUGENIUSZ CYRAN (eds.), Phonology, its faces and interfaces (Sounds – Meaning – Communication 2). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. Pp. 296. ISBN: 978-3-631-67474-1 - Julia Forsberg
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This paper will evaluate the data collection procedure in SSG using Labov’s criteria, cited above. All recordings were made in the same way, using headset microphones, ensuring good quality, multiA channel recordings of two informants interacting with each other. The interview (inspired by the sociolinguistic interview) had two main purposes: colle...
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Phonetic imitation has been explored in various research: in studies on impersonation [Zetterholm (2001); spontaneous phonetic imitation [Babel (2012)]; and as part of studies investigating overall imitation [Papcun (1988), Babel (2011)]. There are fewer studies focusing on specific phonemes, and the context required for successful imitation. Babel...

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