SENTENCE INTONATION IN SWEDISH

In 'A Prosodic Typology for Swedish Dialects' (Nordic Prosody 1978), Bruce and Garding proposed a schema for generating fundamental frequency patterns of statements in four Swedish dialects. Dialectal variation was obtained by timing word accents and sentence accent differently in a common frame expressing statement intonation. In addition to presenting the method, this paper also shows how it can be applied to two different interrogative frames, one for yes/no questions with non-inverted word order and one for inverted order.