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Åsa Abelin
Professor Emerita
Linguistics and Theory of ScienceAbout Åsa Abelin
Research
I do research within the areas sound symbolism and onomatopoeia, Meänkieli, prosody, perception and foreign accent.
Cooperation with society
Member of the radio program Alltinget since 1998.
Interview in Vetenskapsradion Språket 2010
Interview in Vetenskapsradion Språket 2011
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Science, technology and art in the spoken expression of
meaning
Plinio Almeida Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, Åsa Abelin
2023 -
Intelligibility of Swedish foreign accented
words
Åsa Abelin, Elisabeth Zetterholm
The 4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics, ISAPh 2022, September 14–16, 2022 Lund University - 2022 -
Developing Teaching Material for Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Speech
Prosody
Åsa Abelin, M. Alm, J. Eggesbö, E. Albertson, J. Koreman, O. Niebuhr, K. Fischer
15th conference on Nordic Languages as a Second Language, NORDAND 15, 24-26 May 2022, Reykjavík, Island - 2022 -
Initial consonant clusters in onomatopoeic words in Meänkieli varieties, Kvääni, Finnish and
Swedish
Åsa Abelin, Anders Emanuelsson
Tolvte Nordiske dialektologkonferansen, Norges arktiske Universitet, 15-17 augusti 2022 - 2022 -
A Road Map for the Development of Teaching Material on Scandinavian
Prosody
Maria Alm, Åsa Abelin, Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen, Egil Albertsen, Jacques Koreman, Oliver Niebuhr, Kerstin Fischer
Nordic Prosody, Sønderborg, Denmark, 17-19 August 2022 - 2022 -
Intelligible pronunciation with and without picture
context
Elisabeth Zetterholm, Åsa Abelin
PSLLT 2021, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching, June 18-19, 2021, Online - 2021 -
Towards a Prosodic Visualization Tool for Language
Learners
K. Fischer, O. Niebuhr, M. Alm, Åsa Abelin, E. Albertsen
1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021, December 6-9, 2021, Sønderborg, Denmark - 2021 -
Parameters of tonal variation in and between three Scandinavian
languages
M. Alm, J. Eggesbø Abrahamsen, Åsa Abelin, E. Albertsen, J. Koreman
1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021, December 6-9, 2021, Sønderborg, Denmark - 2021 -
Initial consonant clusters in onomatopoeic words in Meänkieli – similarities with Finnish and
Swedish?
Åsa Abelin
12th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics, 14-18 June, 2021, Oslo - 2021 -
Speech perception for
neurophonetics
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings from FONETIK 2019, Stockholm, June 10-12, 2019 / edited by Mattias Heldner. - 2019 -
Ungrammatical prosody does not hinder positive
evaluations
Elisabeth Zetterholm, Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 5-9 August, 2019, Melbourne, Australia / Edited by Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain and Paul Warren. - 2019 -
Intelligibility of children with speech sound disorders evaluated by listeners with Swedish as a second
language
Tove B Lagerberg, Jenny Lam, Rikard Olsson, Åsa Abelin, Sofia Strömbergsson
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - 2019 -
Spanish accented Swedish – when the neighbor becomes a
fir-tree
Åsa Abelin, E. Zetterholm
Comunicación Social: Lingüística, Medios Masivos, Arte, Etnología, Folclor y otras ciencias afines. Vol.1 / [ed] María Rosa Álvarez Silva, Alex Muñoz Alvarado, Leonel Ruiz Miyares - 2019 -
Interaction and code switching in a map task game between L1 and L2 users of
Swedish
Åsa Abelin, Elisabeth Zetterholm
Abstracts from The 4th international conference Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language learning - 2019 -
Onomatopoeia in Meänkieli – a lexicon study of similarities with Finnish and
Swedish
Åsa Abelin
Book of Abstracts of The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Lund University, Sweden, 3-5 May 2019 - 2019 -
Sånt vi bara inte
gör!
Åsa Abelin
Sånt vi bara gör / redigerad av Jenny Nilsson, Susanne Nylund Skog och Fredrik Skott. - 2019 -
Intonation and levels of agreement in interactions between Swedish
adolescents.
Julia Forsberg, Åsa Abelin
Proc. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018. 13-16 June 2018, Poznań, Poland - 2018 -
Onomatopoeia, sound symbolism and emotional interjections in Swedish parent-child
interactions
Åsa Abelin
Crosslinguistic Research in Monolingual and Bilingual Speech / Babatsouli, E. (ed.) - 2018 -
Proceedings FONETIK 2018. The XXXth Swedish Phonetics Conference, held at University of Gothenburg, June 7–8,
2018
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Phonaesthemes in older Swedish dialects – the clusters fn-, gn-, skv-, pj- and
kn-
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of FONETIK 2018. The XXXth Swedish Phonetics Conference Gothenburg, June 7 –8, 2018 / edited by Åsa Abelin and Yasuko Nagano- Madsen - 2018 -
The Perceptual Weight of Word Stress, Quantity and Tonal Word Accent in
Swedish
Åsa Abelin, Bosse Thorén
Studies in Phonetics and Phonology / edited by Elena Babatsouli and David Ingram - 2018 -
Impolite prosody in Swedish and the importance of
context
Åsa Abelin
Interfaces, Impoliteness in Media Discourse / Anna Bączkowska (ed.). - 2017 -
Swedish and Somali listeners' attitudes towards L2 Swedish
Speech
E Zetterholm, Åsa Abelin
Scandinavian Philology - 2017 -
Charisma – who has charisma and can I get
it?
Åsa Abelin
Journal of Speech Sciences - 2017 -
Non-arbitrariness in Swedish parent-child
interactions
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings from the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2017, 4 - 7 September 2017, Chania, Greece / Elena Babatsouli, Editor - 2017 -
Non-arbitrary expressions in Swedish parent-child
interactions
Åsa Abelin
International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 4-7 September 2017 Chania, Crete, Greece. - 2017 -
Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perception of authentic emotions through speech: An acoustic-phonetic study with Brazilian and Swedish
listeners
Wellington da Silva, Plinio Barbosa, Åsa Abelin
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada - 2016 -
Perception of non-native accent in relation to intelligibility and
attitude
Åsa Abelin, Elisabeth Zetterholm
New Sounds 2016. International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech 10-12 June 2016. Aarhus, DK - 2016 -
Identification of stress, quantity and tonal word accent in
Swedish
Åsa Abelin, Bosse Thorén
New Sounds 2016. International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech 10-12 June 2016. Aarhus, DK - 2016 -
The relative weight of two Swedish prosodic
contrasts
Åsa Abelin, Bosse Thorén
E. Babatsouli & D. Ingram (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 7 - 10 September 2015, Chania, Greece - 2015 -
The relative perceptual weight of two Swedish prosodic
contrasts
Åsa Abelin, Bosse Thorén
Abstracts of International symposium on monolingual and bilingual speech. 7-10 September 2015, Chania, Crete, Greece - 2015 -
What affects recognition most – wrong word stress or wrong word
accent?
Åsa Abelin, Bo Thorén
Proceedings of Fonetik 2015, Working papers in General Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund - 2015 -
Phonaesthemes and sound symbolism in Swedish brand
names
Åsa Abelin
Ampersand - 2015 -
Ljudsymbolism i
varumärkesnamn
Åsa Abelin
Svenskans beskrivning 34, 22-24 oktober, Lund - 2014 -
Sound-symbolic theories in the Nordic
countries
Åsa Abelin
Towards a History of Sound-Symbolic Theories, 20-21 February 2014, Dijon, France - 2014 -
Emotional prosody in interjections: a case of non-arbitrariness in
language
Åsa Abelin
The Public Journal of Semiotics - 2013 -
Review of Warren, Paul (2013), Introducing
Psycholinguistics
Åsa Abelin
Moderna språk - 2013 -
Durations and F0 variation of Swedish emotional interjections in relation to
perception
Åsa Abelin
Nordic Prosody, E L Asu and P Lippus (eds.), Proceedings of the XIth Conference, Tartu 2012, Peter Lang - 2013 -
Sound symbolism, emotional prosody and
embodiment
Åsa Abelin
The fourth conference on the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, June 12-14, 2013, Joensuu, Finland - 2013 -
Att använda personbaserade inspelningar i interaktivt lärande - juridiska, tekniska och etiska
avvägningar
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Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference – A Swedish
study
Åsa Abelin
Prosody and Iconicity. Iconicity in Language and Literature 13 - 2013 -
Relative frequency and semantic relations as organizing principles for the psychological reality of
phonaesthemes
Åsa Abelin
Selected papers from UK-CLA Meetings - 2012 -
Riktlinjer för bibehållen integritet och god etik vid användningen av patientbaserade inspelningar i interaktivt
lärande
Ingrid Behrns, Åsa Abelin, Katja Laakso, Mattias von Feilitzen
NU 2012, 17–19 oktober, Göteborg - 2012 -
F0-variation and durations of Swedish emotional
interjections
Åsa Abelin
Nordic Prosody XI, University of Tartu, Estonia, 15–17 August 2012 - 2012 -
Meaning and acceptability of Swedish
interjections
Åsa Abelin
Abstracts of 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 10-12th July 2012, London - 2012 -
Perception of emotional interjections and indexicality in
language
Åsa Abelin
Langauge, Culture and Mind V, 27-29 juni, Lisboa - 2012 -
Proceedings from FONETIK
2012
Åsa Abelin, Anders Eriksson
2012 -
Perception of emotional
interjections
Åsa Abelin
International journal of cognitive linguistics - 2011 -
The interaction between prosody and lexical information in
interjections
Åsa Abelin
Prosodic Interfaces, 25-27 November, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 2011 -
Imitation of bird song in folklore – onomatopoeia or
not?
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Fonetik 2011 - 2011 -
Interpretation of emotional interjections in Swedish – the importance of prosody and lexical
information
Åsa Abelin
The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III). Copenhagen, June 14 - 16th 2011 - 2011 -
Expression of emotions in spoken Swedish - a corpus
study
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Fonetik 2010 - 2010 -
Sound symbolism in interjections across
languages
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Language, Culture & Mind IV, Åbo Akademi, Turku 2010 - 2010 -
Sound symbolism and lexical
productivity
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Hertfordshire - 2010 -
Sound symbolism and its possible role in language
change
Åsa Abelin
SALC 2009, 10-12 juni 2009, Stockholm - 2009 -
Anger or Fear? – Crosscultural multimodal interpretations of emotional
expressions
Åsa Abelin
Emotions in the human voice, Vol. 1 - 2008 -
Pedagogisk förnyelse: Erfarenheter av nätbaserade kurser i lingvistik vid Göteborgs
universitet
Åsa Abelin, Anju Saxena
ASLA 2008, 7-8 november 2008, Stockholm - 2008 -
Emotions and the
mcGurk-effect
Åsa Abelin
Fonetik 2008, 11-13 juni, 2008, Göteborg - 2008 -
Seeing glee but hearing fear? Emotional McGurk effect in
Swedish
Åsa Abelin
in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008 - 2008 -
Anyone speak Swedish? Tolerance for language shifting in graphical multi-user virtual
environmnets
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, Ralph Schroeder
B. Danet & S. Herring (Eds.), The multilingual Internet: Language, culture and communication online - 2007 -
Emotional McGurk effect in
Swedish
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Fonetik 2007, TMH-QPSR - 2007 -
What counts as an emotion? Some empirical observations in the semantic pastures of
emotion
Åsa Abelin
Ahlsén, E., Henrichsen, P., J., Hirsch, R., Nivre, J., Abelin, Å., Strömqvist, S., Nicholson, S., Dorriots, B. (Eds.) Communication – Action – Meaning A Festschrift to Jens Allwood - 2007 -
Anger or Fear? – Crosscultural multimodal interpretations of emotional
expressions
Åsa Abelin
K. Izdebski (Ed.) Emotions in the human voice, Vol. 1 - 2007 -
Från urindoeuropeiska till ndengereko. Nio uppsatser om fonologi och
morfologi
Roger Källström, Åsa Abelin
2006 -
Experiments in investigating sound symbolism and
onomatopoeia
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of ISCA International workshop on experimental linguistics - 2006 -
Phonesthemes in
Swedish
Åsa Abelin
In Proceedings of Conference on Problems of Sign, S:t Petersburg 4th-7th of October 2005 - 2005 -
Change of perception in multimodal and crosslinguistic
settings
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of ISCA workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception - 2005 -
Cross-cultural multimodal interpretation of emotional expressions – an experimental study of Spanish and
Swedish
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Speech Prosody - 2004 -
Spanish and Swedish interpretations of Spanish and Swedish emotions – the influence of facial
expressions
Åsa Abelin
Proceedings of Fonetik 2004 - 2004 -
Anyone Speak Spanish? Language Encounters in Multi-User Virtual Environments and the Influence of
Technology
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, Ralph Schroeder
New Media and Society - 2003 -
Communication in Virtual Environments: Establishing Common Ground for a Collaborative Spatial
Task
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, Ralph Schroeder
The 6th International Workshop on Presence, Aalborg, Denmark, October 6-8 - 2003 -
Cross Linguistic Interpretation of Expressions of
Emotion
Åsa Abelin
in: Proceedings of VIII Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social. Santiago de Cuba, - 2003 -
Cubes in the Cube: A Comparison of a Puzzle-Soving Task in a Virtual and a Real
Environment
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, Ilona Heldal, Ralph Schroeder, Josef Wideström
CyberPsychology & Behavior - 2001 -
Collaborating in networked immersive spaces: as good as being there
together?
Ralph Schroeder, Anthony Steed, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ilona Heldal, Åsa Abelin, Josef Wideström
Computers & Graphics - 2001 -
Anyone Speak Spanish? Language Encounters in Virtual Environments - A Study of Active
Worlds
Åsa Abelin, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ralph Schroeder
The Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, January 22-26 - 2001 -
Solving a 3D Cube Puzzle in a Collaborative Virtual Environment: As Good as Really Being There
Together?
Anthony Steed, Ralph Schroeder, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Alexander Nilsson, Ilona Heldal, Josef Wideström, Åsa Abelin
Siggraph, L.A. USA, August 12-17 - 2001 -
A comparison of Virtual and Real
Environments
Ralph Schroeder, Åsa Abelin, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ilona Heldal, Alexander Nilsson, Josef Wideström
3rd International Workshop on Presence, 27-28 March, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 2000 -
The Collaborative Cube Puzzle: A Comparison of Virtual and Real
Environments
Josef Wideström, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ralph Schroeder, Alexander Nilsson, Ilona Heldal, Åsa Abelin
The 3rd Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE), San Francisco, USA, September 10-12 - 2000 -
Cubes in the Cube: A Comparison of Virtual and Real
Environments
Josef Wideström, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ralph Schroeder, Alexander Nilsson, Ilona Heldal, Åsa Abelin
The 3rd International Workshop on Presence, Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands, 27-28 March - 2000 -
Studies in Sound
Symbolism
Åsa Abelin
1999 -
Collaboration and communication in multi-user virtual environments: A comparison of desktop and immersive virtual reality systems for molecular
visualization
Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Åsa Abelin, Ilona Heldal, Alexander Nilsson, Ralph Schroeder, Josef Wideström
Proceedings of The Sixth UKVRSIG Conference, Salford University, Salford UK - 1999 -
Tolkning av känsloprosodi - en kontrastiv
studie
Jens Allwood, Åsa Abelin
1984