Abstract This book provides a comprehensive overview of Swedish phonology. There are two chapters on respectively vowels and consonants, describing the alternations and distributions of allophones and providing new, motivated phonemic charts. The rules and processes that are primarily segmental in nature are collected in one chapter, which includes both fully productive processes, and partly petrified ones. Among the most interesting segmental processes are the sandhi process of retroflexion, where interaction of several conditioning factors (quantity, morphology, phonation) accounts for the distribution, and the rule of d-continuization whereby a /d/ is realized as [r] in words that lack phonological stress. Most previous interest in Swedish phonology concerns the prosodic level and several chapters are devoted to an account for the interaction of stress, tone, prosodic structure and morphological structure. The minimal prosodic word is shown to be the domain of syllabification, of culminativity by stress, and of the assignment of a lexical tone from suffix to primary stress. Unlike English, Swedish only admits one stress per minimal prosodic word. Moreover, Swedish stress information is largely specified in morphemes (as stressed, or as subcategorizing for a stress). Together with a phonological stress rule, these factors greatly constrain word formation in Swedish, as well as account for the rather spectacular process of nickname formation. The argument for this organization of things is extensively laid out in two chapters focussing on the stress and accent distribution, respectively. Another chapter lays out the quantity system of Swedish, where stressed syllables must be heavy, but by virtue of containing either a long vowel or a long consonant. There is a chapter on the orthographic representation and comments on orthography are also given in the chapters on vowels and consonants. The book aims at providing new analyses where motivated, but at the same time endeavours not to be too theory dependent in presentation.
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