The Phonology Of Swedish

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.

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Excerpt from Swedish Phonology 1. The Swedish alphabet is the same as the English alphabet, with the addition of the three vowel-characters a, a, and o (A, A, O) at the end. In dictionaries these letters will always be found after z, in the order named. Note. - I. The letter y is used only as a sign for a vowel; see 24. 2. W and q occur only in proper names; z and c (with the important exception named in 40, I, and note I) occur only in words of foreign origin and in proper names. Examples: Walli'n, Almqvist, zink zinc, Berze'lius, ocea'n ocean, Celsius. 3. For the names of the letters of the alphabet see 67. Stress. 2. The first syllable has the main stress, both in simple and in compound words. Ex.: kvinna woman, tala to speak, gossarna the boys, troligare more likely, avstand distance, jarnvagsolycka railway accident, genomresa to travel through, erfara to experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."