The phonology of Swedish
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The phonology of Swedish
（The phonology of the world's languages）
Oxford University Press, 2014
Available at 9 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-330) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its relation to other Scandinavian languages, the book is divided into parts dealing with segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, and intonation. The book concludes with concise accounts of phonotactics and
the relationship between phonology and orthography. Tomas Riad's approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral. As well as making an important contribution to its subject, his book provides new insights into how morphology largely determines the distribution of stress in a Germanic
language, and how tonal accent may signal wellformedness in word formation.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Vowels
- 3. Consonants
- 4. Segmental Rules
- 5. The Prosodic Word in Swedish
- 6. The Prosodic Foot and Stress Patterns
- 7. Minimality and Optimality of Roots: Branchingness and Nicknames
- 8. Segmental and Prosodic Quantity
- 9. Tonal Word Accents
- 10. Prosodic Status of Morphemes in the Lexicon: Stress
- 11. Prosodic Status of Morphemes in the Lexicon: Tone Accent
- 12. Syllables
- 13. Orthographic System
- 14. Intonation
- 15. References
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