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SUMMARY:Laterals in Estonian Swedish - Professor Francis Nolan\, Departmen
 t of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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CONTACT:Afra Pujol i Campeny
DESCRIPTION:Swedish was spoken in Estonia as a result of settlement from S
 weden and from Finland starting around the 12th century. A small\, but rel
 atively stable\, Swedish-speaking population survived in some western coas
 tal areas of and islands off Estonia until the second world war\, when the
  prospect of Russian re-occupation led the majority of ethnic Swedes to ac
 cept an offer of refuge in Sweden. Today\, the speakers are mostly over 80
 \, and in Stockholm (though a handful remain in Estonia). There is no pros
 pect of the dialect surviving beyond their lifespan. This talk will introd
 uce some grammatical features of the dialect in general\, before focusing 
 on phonology and the somewhat unusual liquid system. A detail analysis wil
 l be given of the voiceless lateral which Estonian Swedish shares with ver
 y few other Swedish dialects. The voiceless lateral will be compared acous
 tically with those of Welsh and Icelandic.
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-04
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