The Swedish chef: from Norway?!
Posted on April 24, 2008 by doctoralstudent
In Språktidningen (”The language magazine” 
there is an article about the Swedish chef in The Muppet Show. Tomas Riad, a professor at Stockholm University, has taken a closer look at the tonal accents in the chef’s “Swedish”. The intonation reveals that the Swedish chef is neither from southern Sweden nor from Dalecarlia, but that he [...]
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