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Postkvalitatiivisia liikahduksia tekstin ja äänen välillä

2021

Lexical Mixing in a Conversation between Old Helsinki Slang Speakers

2018

In this article, a conversation between Old Helsinki Slang (OHS) speakers recorded in 1965 is examined. A notable feature of OHS is the heavy use of Swedish-based or otherwise un-Finnish words although it mostly follows the grammar of colloquial Finnish. e sample that is analyzed consists of free speech, and it lasts 65 minutes. If uncertain items are taken into account, then the proportion of borrowed lexical items in the data is 29–32%. Function and content words in OHS di er markedly in their etymological origin as the function words are overwhelmingly Finnish. Although OHS has some phonological and phonotactical features that are strikingly “un-Finnish,” it is apparent that these featur…

Lexical Mixing in a Conversation between Old Helsinki Slang Speakers

2018