swedish stress timed

From what every formal source says that Swedish is stress-timed, with the stress usually falling on the first syllable of a word which is either a long ...

Stress. edit. In Swedish, stress is not fixed. Primary stress can fall on one of the last three syllables in a word's stem. This can lead to surface ...

... Swedish is, in fact, not the individual sounds, but stress. In each word, one or two syllables are stressed, that is, prolonged in time. Either the vowel or ...

Swedish is a stress-timed language, where the time intervals between stressed syllables are equal. However, when casually spoken, it tends to be syllable-timed.

10 dec. 2024 — STRESS, LENGTH. A syllable is stressed and sounds more prominent than surrounding syllables. Loudness is measured in deciBels (dB), but

av G Fant · 1991 · Citerat av 221 — In Swedish and English the concept of “stress timing” is attributed not to a physical isochrony but to the relative auditory prominence of stresses. On the ...

av A Eriksson · 1991 · Citerat av 112 — Aspects of Swedish speech rhythm ; Date. 1991 ; Author. Eriksson, Anders ; Keywords. speech rhythm. Swedish. stress-timing. syllable-timing. mora-timing. isochrony.

In Swedish, the stress is always on the long syllable. If you find the long syllable, you have found the stressed syllable (and vice versa).

18 jan. 2006 — Swedish, like all Germanic languages (maybe except Icelandic and Færøyish) is stress timed, and stress seldom falls at every word, which causes ...

1 juli 2025 — In Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, there is a shift between stressed and unstressed words in speech. The results is called rhythm.