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- Hualde, José I., et al.
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Word accent and intonation in Baltic
- 2014
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Ingår i: Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. ; , s. 668-672
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine the realization of word accent contrasts in Standard Latvian and East Aukštaitian Lithuanian across intonational contexts. In our Latvian data the contrast is manifested as level vs. falling pitch in most contexts, in addition to a durational difference. In Aukštaitian Lithuanian, instead, differences in vowel quality and duration cue the lexical contrast in the nuclei that we examine. While Latvian retains a tonal contrast, in Aukštaitian Lithuanian it has been replaced with a combined segmental/quantitative contrast, where the so-called circumflex tone corresponds to relatively shorter duration and, in the case of diphthongs, centralized quality in the first half. We discuss the implications of these findings for further typological work.
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- Myrberg, Sara, 1983-
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The Intonational Phonology of Stockholm Swedish
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis develops the phonological model for the Stockholm Swedish intonation system. Though previous research provides a general model of this system, many phonological aspects of it have remained understudied. The intonational options that are available to speakers of Stockholm Swedish are discussed, and it is argued that Stockholm Swedish provides evidence for complex branching of phonological domains.Specifically, it is argued that so called focal accents, which are referred to as (H)LH-accents in the present work, have essentially two different functions. First, they signal information structural categories such as focus. Second, they signal left edges of Intonation Phrases (IP). It is also argued that a wide range of options exist in the post-nuclear area. Six types of contours for such areas are distinguished, plus one additional rising contour when there are no post-nuclear accents.Based on these findings, I present an account of the branching options for the phonological categories in the Stockholm Swedish prosodic hierarchy. I argue that there is evidence for recursive phonological structures in Stockholm Swedish, i.e. that a mother node and a daughter node can belong to the same phonological category. Also, Stockholm Swedish provides evidence for a distinction between prosodic coordination (equal sister nodes) and prosodic adjunction (unequal sister nodes). Prosodic structure is mapped onto syntactic structure via a set of variably ranked Optimality Theoretic constraints. The relation between phonological and syntactic structure shows that the phonology prefers prosodic coordination (equal sisters) over adjunction (unequal sisters).The material for the study comprises a corpus of approximately 420 read sentences, which were specifically designed to test various phonological hypotheses, and approximately 17 minutes of uncontrolled speech.
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- Riad, Tomas
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Culminativity, stress and tone accent in Central Swedish
- 2012
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Ingår i: Lingua. - : Elsevier BV. - 0024-3841 .- 1872-6135. ; 122:13, s. 1352-1379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish stress and tone accent exhibits an interesting mixture of properties. I argue that the stress system is arranged in a largely morphological fashion, with clear similarities to dominance systems of Japanese, Basque and Greek, where there is a distinction between accented and unaccented stems, and where prefixes and, in particular, suffixes influence stress/accent placement. A major difference is that none of the lexical specifications for stress in Swedish is pre- or post-accenting, but rather post- and pretonic. Thus, no stress is assigned by affixes, but affixes impose adjacency conditions on stress placement in stems, or else the structure is either inhibited, or becomes noticeably marked. Beside the morphological specifications of stress information, there is a phonological default stress assignment, similar to what we find in Greek. The phonological default of Swedish applies blindly when prosodic specification is lacking at the right edge of prosodic words. An accentual default occurs also in Basque, but it applies at a phrasal level rather than at the word level. Beside stress, Swedish also exhibits a lexical tone ('accent 2', 'grave'), which occurs only in primary stressed syllables, and which (in the analysis assumed here) is mostly assigned from posttonic suffixes to an immediately preceding primary stress. So-called 'accent 1' (acute) is lexically unmarked, but both tonal contours signal prominence in a similar fashion, that is, in a way that is independent of the lexical distinction as such. Stress and tonal accent both instantiate culminativity. Building on the theory of projecting words and phrases (Ito and Mester, 2007), I argue that stress instantiates culminativity within the minimal prosodic word, and tonal accent instantiates culminativity in the maximal prosodic word.
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Foot
- 2014
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004225978
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The foot (Gk. poús) in poetic meter typically refers to the unit made up of two metrical positions, which carries a name like iamb, trochee, dactyl, spondee, or anapest. Meters are usually referred to in terms of what is taken to be the canonical form of the verse foot, plus a specification of line length in terms of metron (dactylic hexameter, iambic trimeter, spondaic pentameter, etc.). Feet in meter correspond roughly to prosodic words in phonology.
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Högt och lågt i skandinaviska dialekter
- 2014
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Ingår i: Fun and puzzles in modern Scandinavian studies. - Vilnius : Vilnius University, Centre of Scandinavian Studies. - 9786094594427 ; , s. 123-141
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The typology of Scandinavian dialects is based on prosodic features, namely tone and intonation. We look at three variables that account for the variation between the large dialect groups: 1. The value of the lexical tone in accent 2, 2. Whether there is one or two association points for the tonal contour in compounds, and 3. Whether there is spreading or interpolation between the lexical tone and the prominence tone in compounds. The relevance of these variables is illustrated by comparisons of real pronunciations from several dialects, including Olso (East Norwegian), Göteborg (West Swedish), Stockholm (Central Swedish), Norberg (Dala Swedish), Skåne (South Swedish), and Luleå (North Swedish).
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Ljudhistoriens grannskap
- 2010
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Ingår i: Studier i svensk språkhistoria 10.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Metron
- 2014
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004225978
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The metron (Gk. μέτρον) in poetic meter refers to the unit that is repeated in the line of verse (stichic verse), or that otherwise recurs in a stable shape across stanzas and poems (lyric verse). The size of a metron is either a single verse foot (dactyl, spondee), or a pair of verse feet (trochaic, iambic, anapestic), within which some stable property occurs.
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Retroflektering
- 2010
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Ingår i: Bo 65. - Göteborg : Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning. - 9789197474788 ; , s. 214-227
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Sköna och osköna ljud i skönlitteraturen
- 2013
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Ingår i: Det sköna med skönlitteraturen. 3. - Stockholm : Svenska akademien. - 9789113056807 ; , s. 131-165
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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