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The goal of this study is to shed some light on the realization of toneme 1 vs. toneme 2 words in two North Norwegian dialects. Two speakers were recorded pronouncing a number of tonal minimal pairs both in a text and as isolated words. In a listening test, a group of listeners identified the words having only prosodic cues at their disposal. For the different words, identification rates varied between chance and almost perfect identification. Following the listening test, some words judged by the listeners were acoustically analyzed. Words with high correct identification rates showed clearly distinctive F0 contours, in contrast to words that had yielded low correct identification. The results suggest that vowel duration does not play any role in the toneme distinction.
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