The Level Stress Recordings

This collection consists of scripted recordings from different rural dialects spoken in Norway and Sweden, in total 33 recordings of 46 different speakers. The speakers’ year of birth ranges from 1909 to 1973. The sets of target words were designed to capture the quantity system and tonal system of the different dialects. Level stress is an English translation of the Norwegian term jamvekt, which designates the ambiguous stress pattern in words with preserved light stressed syllable from Old Norse. All the dialects recorded have either preserved this pattern or have had it in the past. The sound files have not been annotated in e.g. Praat or Elan, but linguistic metadata accompanying each sound file should make it fairly easy for anyone interested in using the material to annotate it according to her or his own scientific goals.

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If you are connected to a Norwegian institution of higher education, you can log in via Feide (choose CLARIN SPF on top of the page, and search for Feide). International scholars may use the Clarin login interface. All files including beckground information and metadata can be accessed using the links to the 12 datasets in the table below.

The complete set of recordings, bakground information and metadata can be downloaded as a single zip-file from this repository item (link at the bottom of the page).

Ngbr89 and 90 (Norwegian, 45 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/129

Oppdal91 (Norwegian, 43 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/130

Skattungbyn08 (Swedish, 75 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/131

Sollerön90 (Swedish, 71 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/132

Tinn91 (Norwegian, 3 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/133

Transtrand14 (Swedish, 287 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/134

Våmhus08 (Swedish, 75 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/135

Vinäs08 (Swedish, 75 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/136

Lima14 (Swedish, 136 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/128

EastMora90 (Swedish, 120 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/127

Älvdalen90 (Swedish, 12 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/126

Malung14 (Swedish, 103 mb)
http://hdl.handle.net/11509/137