Abstract Regional varieties of Danish are distinguished mainly by prosodic cues, in particular the tonal stress group pattern. We test the hypothesis that prosody is a strong cue for identifying the regional background of speakers. This hypothesis was studied using an online survey in which listeners were asked to identify the origin of speakers based on examples from four different regional varieties of Danish. Listeners identified speaker origin on the basis of both natural, monotonised and delexicalised speech samples. The results show that although most listeners are able to identify the four regional varieties correctly, it is more reasonable to say that Danes categorise the regional varieties into broader categories of Western and Eastern Danish. Prosody clearly plays an important role in the identification of the varieties, but reliable identification is difficult based on prosody alone.

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认识丹麦的区域性品种

摘要丹麦语的区域变体主要以韵律线索为特征，尤其是音调重音群模式。我们检验了韵律是确定说话人区域背景的强有力线索的假设。使用在线调查研究了这一假设，其中要求听众根据来自四个不同区域性丹麦语的示例来确定说话者的出身。听众根据自然的，单调的和无词化的语音样本来确定说话者的来历。结果表明，尽管大多数听众都能够正确识别出四个区域变体，但说丹麦人将区域变体分为丹麦西部和东部的更广泛的类别更为合理。韵律显然在品种识别中起着重要作用，