The phonology of Swedish / Tomas Riad
- Author
- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : map (black and white).
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Swedish and the languages of Sweden -- 2.Vowels -- 3.Consonants -- 4.Segmental processes -- 5.The prosodic word -- 6.The prosodic foot and stress patterns -- 7.Minimality and optimality of roots: branchingness and nicknames -- 8.Segmental quantity and prosodic weight -- 9.Tonal word accents -- 10.Prosodic status of morphemes in the lexicon: stress -- 11.Prosodic status of morphemes in the lexicon: tone -- 12.Intonation -- 13.Syllables and phonotactics -- 14.Orthography.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191747168 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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