Introduction to Scandinavian Phonetics: Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish

accent adjective appear articulation become called clause close combine common compounds consists consonant contours contrast Danish denote dependent dialects diphthongs distinction distinguished element English equivalent example exceptions fall final foreign origin French fricative front further German head higher human immediately important individual initial intonation known language length letters linguistics lips long vowel lower marked meaning mouth nasal normally Norwegian Note noun occurs pairs palate particular past phonemes phrase pitch position preceding prefixes produced pronounced pronunciation raised regional retroflex rounded secondary sense sentence short vowel single sometimes sounds speakers speech speech sounds spelling spoken standard stød stops stressed syllable suffixes Swedish tend tense tone tongue types units unstressed unvoiced usually utterance variation variety vary verb versus voiced written