SUMMARY
This article presents a hypothesis about the origin of tone accent in Swedish and Norwegian. The main idea is that the presence of Proto-Nordic secondary stress and its subsequent reduction is essential to the development of accent 2. Developing an earlier proposal (Riad 1988), it is argued that stress clash is critical in the phonologization of tonal information. Support for the major claims is provided by the correlation of Proto-Nordic secondary stress and accent 2 in the modern languages, the synchronic behaviour of accent 2 in Modern Standard Swedish, its manifestation in conservative dialects, and distributional differences between three Scandinavian varieties, which reflect different stages of development. Other, earlier theories of the origin of the accents are discussed in the appendix.
RÉSUMÉ
Cet article présente une hypothèse de l'origine des accents tonaux en suédois et en norvégien. L'idée principale est que la présence de l'accent dynamique secondaire en proto-nordique et sa réduction subséquente sont essentielles pour le développement de l'accent 2. Ici l'auteur développe la proposition de Riad (1988) selon laquelle le facteur qui cause la phonologisation d'information tonale est le 'stress clash' (le conflit de l'accent tonique). À l'appui des aspects principaux de l'hypothèse il y a la corrélation entre l'accent dynamique secondaire en proto-nordique et l'accent 2 (tonal) dans les langues modernes, la comportement synchronique d'accent 2 en suédois moderne, sa manifestation dans les dialectes conservateurs, et des différences distribu-tionelles entre trois dialectes Scandinaves, qui présentent les différents étapes du développement. On discute d'autres théories de l'origine des accents dans un appendice.
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
In diesem Aufsatz wird eine Hypothèse zur ÖEntstehung der schwedischen und norwegischen tonalen Akzente vorgelegt. Ihr Kernpunkt ist, daß sekun-dare Betonungen im Urnordischen und ihre spätere Reduktion eng mit der Ent-wicklung des Akzents 2 verbunden sind. Als auslösenden Faktor in der Pho-nologisierung tonaler Information wird hier ein sog. 'Stress Clash' (nach Riad 1988) angenommen. Stütze für die hauptsächlichen Aspekte dieser Hypothèse finden wir in der Korrelation zwischen urnordischer sekundärer Betonung und Akzent 2 in den modernen Sprachen, dem synchronischen Verhalten des Ak-zent 2 im modernen Standardschwedischen, ihrer Manifestation in konserva-tiven Dialekten und auch in den distributionellen Kontrasten in drei skandi-navischen Varietäten, denen verschiedene Stadien der Entwicklung des Tons entsprechen. Andere Theorien zum Ursprung der Akzente werden in einem Anhang diskutiert.
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