--- In cybalist@..., Milos Bogdanovic <milos@...> wrote:
> Does anybody know which Swedish dialect has pitch (tonal)
> accent more expressed than other Swedish dialects,
All I know on that subject comes from Brøndum-Nielsen: Dialekter og
Dialektforskning, which is mostly about Danish dialects:
Finnish Swedish supposedly has lost the distiction between the two
tones, accent 1 and accent 2 (and I read somewhere else that so has
Norwegian). Personally I find the general "melody" of Norrland
Swedish pretty to Finnish Swedish, bit B-N has no information of it
having lost any of the tones.
Also, B-N has no information of accent being more expressed in any
particular Swedish dialect. The two tones survive, more or less, in
some Danish dialects (Fyn and Lolland)
> what is special characteristic of Dal dialect in comparison
> to other dialects?
I assume you mean Dalarne, not the neighbor landscape of Dalsland?
That dialect is supposedly very conservative. From B-N's maps I can
see that it has among other things regressive vowel harmony (which is
innovative relative to Old Norse), but it is a feature it shares with
neighboring mid-Scandinavian dialects. Folklore has it that
Dalecarlia (Dalarne) is the most Swedish of the landscapes. It was
the center of Gustav Vasa's successful attempt at driving out the
Danes.
Sorry I can't help you more.
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> Milos Bogdanovic
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