Research project Intelligibility in Swedish as a second language

In this project, we try to help setting priorities for pronunciation teaching in Swedish as a second language. We use laboratory methods and acoustic analyzes to evaluate which pronunciation aspects are most important for intelligibility of the Swedish language.

The results already confirm that it is important for the intelligibility that those who speak Swedish as a second language use the quantity contrast that is found in stressed syllables in Swedish. Future studies may, for example, evaluate vowel length, word emphasis, tone accent, and more.