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  • Chapter 7 - Tone Accent in North and West Germanic

  • from Part I - Phonology
  • Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, B. Richard Page, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
    Published online:
    31 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 143-166

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses tonal accent in North and West Germanic. Varieties with tonal accent display (primarily) tone-based oppositions between two accents in stressed syllables, commonly referred to as Accent 1 and Accent 2. In North Germanic, tonal accent occurs in most varieties of Norwegian and Swedish, as well as some in varieties of Danish; in West Germanic, it can be found in dialects spoken in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Examples are [man1] ‘basket’ vs. [man2] ‘man’ for West Germanic (Arzbach), or [1andən] ‘the duck’ [2andən] ‘the spirit’ for North Germanic (Stockholm). For each of the two areas, this chapter reviews some basic synchronic properties of the respective tone accent systems, including patterns of variation across dialects. It furthermore provides a brief overview of the tenets of different synchronic analyses of the phenomena, as well as of diachronic approaches to the genesis and diachronic typology of tonal accent.