Late Pitch Peaks in West Swedish
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The present paper describes a case of late pitch peak placement in West Swedish. In the Swedish prosodic typology this dialect type belongs to the double-peaked dialects, where the first pitch peak of a word in focus represents word accent proper and the second peak focal accent. In phrase-final position the focal accent H appears to seek the edge of the phrase, while in nonfinal position it seeks the stressed syllable of the postfocal word. This late alignment of the focal accent H has a parallel in the phonological behavior of the yes/no question intonation contour in some varieties of Eastern European languages (Greek, Romanian).
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