Tonal Accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification (Linguistische Arbeiten Book 535)

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more simplex and unified morphophonological analysis of word accents in North Germanic. It gives the facts of accent distribution in Standard East Norwegian, discusses how three of the more recent and most important analyses of accent assignment in Norwegian and Swedish deal with these facts and provides an alternative analysis. Given that many Accent 1 words are loans, the book also discusses how loanword incorporated in East Norwegian and other North Germanic dialects and the question of why loans predominantly bear Accent 1. Although the focus of the book is word accent assignment in Standard East Norwegian, it also refers to Central Swedish and Old Norse. In this way, it accounts for many aspects of accent assignment, the true nature of which might have gone undetected had only one of the North Germanic language been taken into consideration. The book also dedicates one chapter to the phonetics of the tonal contrast. Addressing the question of how perceptually salient the tonal contrast is.

Tonal accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and lexical specification breaks from the traditional and contemporary analyses of word accent in North Germanic with the goal of providing a more simplex and unified morphophonological analysis of word accents in North Germanic. It gives the facts of accent distribution in Standard East Norwegian, discusses how three of the more recent and most important analyses of accent assignment in Norwegian and Swedish deal with these facts and provides an alternative analysis. Given that many Accent 1 words are loans, the book also discusses how loanword incorporated in East Norwegian and other North Germanic dialects and the question of why loans predominantly bear Accent 1.
Although the focus of the book is word accent assignment in Standard East Norwegian, it also refers to Central Swedish and Old Norse. In this way, it accounts for many aspects of accent assignment, the true nature of which might have gone undetected had only one of the North Germanic language been taken into consideration.
The book also dedicates one chapter to the phonetics of the tonal contrast. Addressing the question of how perceptually salient the tonal contrast is.

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit ber 500 Bnden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse fr die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft prsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron mglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben. Within Germanic, North Germanic is special because in many dialects words can differ only based on their melody or word accents. Tonal accents in Norwegian breaks from the traditional analyses of word accent in North Germanic in an attempt to provide a more simplex and unified analysis. It gives the facts of accent distribution in Standard East Norwegian, discusses how past analyses of Norwegian and Swedish have dealt with these facts and provides an alternative analysis. The focus is on East Norwegian, however the goal is to present an approach that can account for all tonal dialects Frontmatter Contents Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Scandinavian tonal word accent 3 Morphemes and tones: A historical survey 4 A novel approach to specify tone 5 Compounds and tones: Previous and present analyses 6 Loans and lexically specified Accent 1 7 Tonal alignment in an East Norwegian dialect 8 Conclusion Appendices Allison Wetterlin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 183-187).