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Two-peakedness in South Swedish and the Scandinavian tone-accent typology

Myrberg, Sara LU (2022) p.95-124
Abstract
This chapter presents the results of a production study with twelve speakers of South Swedish. The results show that South Swedish has so-called two-peak contours in non-utterance-final nuclear accents and in phrase-initial accents (so-called initiality accents). The shape of the two-peak contours is reminiscent of contours reported from East Norway and West Sweden. These results contradict previous assumptions in typological work on Scandinavian, which has categorized South Swedish as a one-peak dialect. The results thus indicate that South Swedish is more closely related to West Swedish and East Norwegian than previously thought. Based on this insight, it is argued that the distinction between one-peak and two-peak systems in the... (More)
This chapter presents the results of a production study with twelve speakers of South Swedish. The results show that South Swedish has so-called two-peak contours in non-utterance-final nuclear accents and in phrase-initial accents (so-called initiality accents). The shape of the two-peak contours is reminiscent of contours reported from East Norway and West Sweden. These results contradict previous assumptions in typological work on Scandinavian, which has categorized South Swedish as a one-peak dialect. The results thus indicate that South Swedish is more closely related to West Swedish and East Norwegian than previously thought. Based on this insight, it is argued that the distinction between one-peak and two-peak systems in the Scandinavian accent typology is not binary, as has been assumed in previous research (e.g. Gårding 1977; Bruce 1977). Rather, a continuum between one-peaked and two-peaked dialects is proposed. (Less)
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tone accent, Scandinavia, dialect typology, two-peaked, South Swedish, H tone drifting, late alignment, focus, initiality accent
host publication
Prosody and Prosodic interfaces
editor
Kubozono, Haruo ; Ito, Junko and Mester, Armin
pages
30 pages
publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198869740
9780191912436
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198869740.003.0004
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English
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yes
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5729da6e-3601-4840-9bdb-50cf6c07478d
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  author       = {{Myrberg, Sara}},
  booktitle    = {{Prosody and Prosodic interfaces}},
  editor       = {{Kubozono, Haruo and Ito, Junko and Mester, Armin}},
  isbn         = {{9780198869740}},
  keywords     = {{tone accent; Scandinavia; dialect typology; two-peaked; South Swedish; H tone drifting; late alignment; focus; initiality accent}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{95--124}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  title        = {{Two-peakedness in South Swedish and the Scandinavian tone-accent typology}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869740.003.0004}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/oso/9780198869740.003.0004}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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