Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Vowels
3: Consonants
4: Segmental Rules
5: The Prosodic Word in Swedish
6: The Prosodic Foot and Stress Patterns
7: Minimality and Optimality of Roots: Branchingness and Nicknames
8: Segmental and Prosodic Quantity
9: Tonal Word Accents
10: Prosodic Status of Morphemes in the Lexicon: Stress
11: Prosodic Status of Morphemes in the Lexicon: Tone Accent
12: Syllables
13: Orthographic System
14: Intonation
15: References

About the Author

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.