Toward an Acoustic Description of Faroese long and short Monophthongs: Ískoyti til eina ljóðfrøðiliga lýsing av longum og stuttum einljóðum í føroyskum

The aim of this study is to examine and compare the monophthongs of the
Faroese dialects of Norðurstreymoy, Eysturoy, Vágar (North-West Faroese),
Klaksvík (North-East Faroese), Tórshavn (Central Faroese), and Suðuroy
(Southern Faroese) as produced by 25 female and 16 male speakers auditorily
and acoustically. The analysis focuses on stressed monophthongs embedded in
nonsense words. Target vowels were presented orthographically in the frame
bVb for long vos and bVbb for short vowels. The bVb(b) nonsense words were
inserted into the carrier sentence Eg sigi orðið __ nú ´I say the word___ now´.
Acoustic measurements are carried out using Praat.