Dialektgeografiska frågor kring tonaccent och betoning hos sammansatta ord i nordiska dialekter

• In Central Standard Swedish, compound words generally carry primary stress on the firstelement and the tonal word accent 2. However, some North Germanic Dialects evince variationin compound words regarding both tonal accent and stress, giving rise to dialect geographicand historical questions. Dialect geographic as well as structural arguments canbe made that the variable tonal accent system found today in the very south of Sweden andin most of Norway was once present in all of Scandinavia and that the Central Swedish andNorth Norwegian system with general accent 2 in compound words is a relatively latedevelopment from this system. Second element stress, conversely, is best understood as aninnovation, developed in different ways from different tonal make-ups of accent 2, resultingin varying conditions for second-element stress across dialects.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Tonaccent

betoning

dialektgeografi

prosodi

fonologi

Dialektforskning

Dialectology

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