The Level Stress Recordings: NGbr_89 and NGbr_90

Recording equipment
The recordings were done by means of a cassette recorder (Sony TC-D5M) and Sony
lavaliere microphones. The recordings took place in the speakers’ homes or in a hotel room.
Sigurd Nordlie was recorded in his office at the University of Oslo. The tapes were digitized
in the 1990s.

The speakers
The speakers were recruited with the help of Sigurd Nordlie (1936–2018), who at the time
when the recordings were made, worked as a lexicographer at the University of Oslo. Nordlie
himself was from Lesja in North Gudbrandsdaland and is one of the nine speakers. Most of
them were well educated and interested in the local dialect. Their speech will therefore at least
in some cases represent a more traditional and idealized dialect than that of many of their
contemporaries. Given one of the main goals of the project, to establish if and in what form
Old Norse light stressed syllables were preserved in the dialect, this is not regarded as a
problem.

For the full background description of this item, see the file “NGbr_89 and NGbr_90: Background.pdf”.

For the full description of the whole project, see these files:
The Level Stress recordings.pdf
LevelStress_Glossary.pdf
Level Stress_Speaker and Sound File Codes.pdf

The data should be used only for research and development purposes.