The Swedes are late as usual: On stress placement in parallel words in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

After a short general discussion of ’parallel’ words, we compare the placement of main stress in such words, in Swedish (Stockholm), Danish (Copenhagen) and Norwegian (Ålesund). To be sure, this property coincides in the vast majority (> 95%) of the cases. However, concentrating on the exceptions (about 300 per language pair in our data), we find that although all three languages exhibit late stress in many words of non-Germanic origin, this tendency is stronger in Swedish than in both Danish and Norwegian, with no significant difference between the latter two.