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The marked status of Accent 2 in Central Swedish

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Summary, in English

Based on results from psycholinguistic and neuro- linguistic research on the perception of word ac- cents in Central Swedish, we argue that Accent 2 could be seen as “marked,” as opposed to the un- marked Accent 1. The markedness of Accent 2 is assumed to be both phonetic, due to its relatively more complex high tone, and cognitive, due to the fact that the Accent 2 tone activates more word forms and thus increases processing load.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1710-1713

Publication/Series

Proceedings from ICPhS 2011

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • markedness
  • Swedish
  • word accent
  • reaction time
  • ERP

Conference name

ICPhS XVIII

Conference date

2011-08-21

Status

Published

Project

  • Abstract, emotional and concrete words in the mental lexicon