Compound accent patterns in some dialects of Southern Swedish
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This is a study about the accent pattern of compound words in the Southern Swedish variety. This pattern differs from Standard Swedish in that the first element of the compound may retain Accent I, whereas the standard dialect invariably gets Accent II. Bruce (1974) showed that this accent shift blocking varied with area and type of compound. The present study deals with four dialects of Southern Swedish using the recently collected dialect material from SWEDIA 2000 and finds that the blocking still is prevalent in Bara, Löderup and Norra Rörum, while it is virtually nonexistent in Broby.
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