Xenophones Revisited: Linguistic and other underlying factors affecting the pronunciation of foreign items in Swedish
Anders Lindström, Robert Eklund · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 1999
In this paper, the distribution of Swedish subjects’ productions of foreign speech sounds, here termed xenophones, is studied, and tabulated across gender, age, and region. The results are grouped in three categories along the “awareness” and “fidelity”dimensions. Results indicate that age is by far the most decisive underlying factor, which can be explained in terms of cultural exposure.