The phonology of Swedish / Tomas Riad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riad, Tomas.

Series:

Phonology of the world's languages.

The Phonology of the World's Languages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish language--Phonology.

Swedish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, intonation, and regional variations. Its approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral.

Contents:

Cover; THE PHONOLOGY OF SWEDISH; Copyright; SHORT CONTENTS; FULL CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS; 1 Introduction: Swedish and the languages of Sweden; 1.1 Language policy; 1.2 The languages of Sweden; 1.3 Swedish outside Sweden; 1.4 Inter-Scandinavian; 1.5 Dialect areas of Swedish; 1.6 Resources; 1.7 Swedish phonology; 1.7.1 Quantity; 1.7.2 Vowels; 1.7.3 Consonants; 1.7.4 Prosody: stress and syllabification; 1.7.5 Prosody: tonal word accent; 1.8 Conventions used in this book; 2 Vowels; 2.1 Vowel phonemes and contrasts; 2.2 Phonemes and allophones; 2.2.1 /i/ [i] ~ [I] i

2.2.2 /e/ [e] ~ [ε] [e] [ε] e2.2.3 /ε/ [ε] ~ [ε] [æ] ~ [æ] ä; 2.2.4 Notes on /e/ and /ε/ in stressed and unstressed syllables; 2.2.5 /y/ [y] ~ [y] y; 2.2.6 /ø/ [ø] ~ [ø] [œ] [œ] ~ [œ] [E] ö; 2.2.7 // [u] ~ [u] [e] u; 2.2.8 /u/ [u] ~ [u] [c] o; 2.2.9 /o/ [o] ~ [c] [u] å; 2.2.10 Notes on the alternation of [c] and [u]; 2.2.11 /a/ [a] [a] ~ [a] a; 2.3 The vowel phoneme system; 2.4 Diphthongization; 2.5 Diphthongs; 3 Consonants; 3.1 Oral stops; 3.2 Nasals; 3.2.1 /n, nμ/ [n] [n] [n] [n] [] [m] [m] [n] [~] ([n]) n; 3.2.2 /m, mμ/ [m] [m] [] m; 3.2.3 /, μ/ [] [] [] ng, n, g

3.2.4 Distribution of /n, μ/3.2.5 Orthography of nasals; 3.3 Fricatives; 3.3.1 /f, fμ/ [f] [f] f, ph /v, vμ/ [v] [v] [v] v, w; 3.3.2 /s, sμ/ [s] [s] s, c, sc, t; 3.3.3 // [c] [ç] k, kj, tj, c; 3.3.4 /, μ/ [j] [j] [] [j] [j] j, g, y, i; 3.3.5 /, μ/ [ss] [s] [j] [x] [f] [f:] sj, sk, skj, stj, stg, ssj, sch, sh, shi, sc, ch, che, si, ssi, sti,ti, ti (=[tfj]),xi and xj (=[kfj]), g, j, ge, gi, ige, je; 3.3.6 Notes on the spelling of /s/; 3.3.7 Distributional and morphophonemic patterns involving /s/ and /c/; 3.3.8 /h/ [h] [h] h; 3.4 Liquids; 3.4.1 /l, lμ/ [l] [l] l; 3.4.2 /r, rμ/ [r] [r] [] r

3.5 The consonant phoneme system4 Segmental processes; 4.1 Retroflexion; 4.1.1 Retroflexion by coalescence; 4.1.2 Retroflexion by spreading; 4.1.3 Distribution of retroflexion; 4.1.4 Notes on retroflexion; 4.2 Vowel lowering before [retroflex]; 4.2.1 Distribution of vowel lowering; 4.2.2 Notes on vowel lowering; 4.3 Vowel centralization; 4.3.1 Distribution of vowel centralization; 4.4 Nasal assimilation; 4.4.1 Distribution of nasal assimilation; 4.4.2 Variable assimilation; 4.4.3 Interaction of nasal assimilation and retroflexion; 4.5 -excrescence; 4.6 Postnasal d-deletion

4.7 Assimilation of /d/4.8 d-continuization; 4.9 Spread glottis assimilation; 4.10 Egentligen [ejεklεn]; 4.11 Morpheme-final r-deletion; 4.12 Obsolete segmental rules; 4.12.1 Palatalization of dorsal consonants; 4.12.2 Ablaut and umlaut; 4.12.3 Regressive spreading of nasality; 5 The prosodic word; 5.1 The minimal prosodic word, ωmin; 5.1.1 Syllabification within the ωmin; 5.1.2 Culminativity within the ωmin; 5.1.3 Medial clusters; 5.1.4 Rhythmic grouping; 5.1.5 Segment distribution; 5.1.6 Coordinatory truncation; 5.1.7 Tonal accent induced by suffix; 5.2 The maximal prosodic word, ωmax

5.2.1 Compounds

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-164367-X

1-306-27065-0

OCLC:

870284594