Phonology of Swedish

Informationen zum Autor Tomas Riad is Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Stockholm. He has published numerous articles on Scandinavian and Gothic phonology in scholarly journals, including Fonetik, the Nordic Journal of Linguistics, and Journal of Germanic Linguistics. Klappentext This book presents a comprehensive account of the phonology of Swedish, describes its history, segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, intonation, and regional variations. Its approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral. Zusammenfassung This book presents a comprehensive account of the phonology of Swedish, describes its history, segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, and intonation, Its approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Tomas Riad
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199543571
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954357-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: The Phonology of the World's Languages; Oxford Linguistics; The Phonology of the World's Languages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, Phonetics, phonology, Swedish