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Stress and Accent in Swedish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

John T. Jensen
John T. Jensen
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Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Ontario KIN 6N5, Canada
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Abstract

A generative account of stress and accent in Swedish is developed. Contrary to traditional assumptions, Accent I and Accent II are not considered primitive categories, nor, as in earlier generative treatments, a feature of words. Rather, the accents are described in terms of universal features of pitch, which are assigned to words whose stress patterns are fully determined. Although the pitch rules differ from one dialect to another, the stress rules are substantially the same in all dialects.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , June 1980 , pp. 25 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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