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The Phonology of Swedish (The Phonology of the World's Languages) - Hardcover

Book 13 of 14: The Phonology of the World's Languages

Riad, Tomas

 
9780199543571: The Phonology of Swedish (The Phonology of the World's Languages)

Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its relation to other Scandinavian languages, the book is divided into parts dealing with segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, and intonation. The book concludes with concise accounts of regional variations in accent and the influence of phonology on poetry and orthography. Tomas Riad's approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral. As well as making an important contribution to its subject, his book provides new insights into the nature of phonological change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics.

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About the Author

Tomas Riad, Professor of Scandinavian Languages, University of Stockholm

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.

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