Viveca Rabb

Viveca Rabb
Åbo Akademi University · Åbo Akademi University Library

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Language Variation
Dialectology
Sociolinguistics
Historical Linguistics

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Variation mellan kort- och långstavighet i finlandssvenskt talspråk
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  • Aug 2024
The feature kortstavighet, i.e. a short vowel followed by a short consonant (VC) in two-syllable words, is one of the most salient patterns distinguishing Swedish spoken in Finland from Swedish spoken in Sweden. The VC feature is a common phenomenon both in the spoken standard language and the dialects in Finland Swedish. There is, however, still a...
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From countryside dialects to Vaasa Swedish. Indications of dialect levelling and enregisterment of a town variety in four steps
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  • Jan 2016
The aim of the study is to discuss changing indexicality and enregisterment of a Swedish dialect in western Finland. Indexicality is studied for the variety as a whole, rather than for individual dialectal traits. Fifteen women and 15 men born 1936-1997 from the town Vaasa and the neighboring municipality Korsholm were interviewed. The theoretical...
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