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Proceedings, FONETIK 2009, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm UniversityPitch (Hz)5004003002001000såna därsom intehade nå ˈhus- ˌrum’such people who did not have a place to stay’L H , , L , ,0 2.128Time (s)Figure 8. Earlier timing of final HL% fall in compoundaccent 2. E8w: 2ˈhusˌrum ‘place to stay’Another indication of the early timing ofHL% occurs in accent 2 trisyllabic simplexforms, where the second peak occurs with greatregularity in the second syllable.5004003002001000den var så ˈgri- pan- de (...) hela ˈhand- ling-en å så där’it was so moving (...) the entire plot and so on’H L H L H LH L , , ,0 3.14Time (s)Figure 9. Early timing of HL% in trisyllabic accent2 forms. E106w: 2ˈgripande ‘moving’, 2ˈhandlingen‘the plot’.In standard CSw the second peak is variablyrealized in either the second or third syllable(according to factors not fully worked out), afeature that points to a southward relationshipwith the Göta dialects, where the later realizationis rule.The compression and leftward shift at theend of the focused word has consequences alsofor the initial part of the accent 2 contour. Thelexical or postlexical accent 2 tone in CSw isH. In simplex forms, this H tone is associatedto the only stressed syllable (e.g. Figure 5 2ˈhela‘the whole’), and in compounds the H tone isassociated to the first stressed syllable (Figure6). In some of the informants’ speech, there hasbeen a shift of tones at this end of the focusdomain, 2ˈhusˌrumtoo. We can see this in the compound‘place to stay’ in Figure 8. The firststress of the compound is associated to a L tonerather than the expected H tone of standardCSw. In fact, the H tone is missing altogether.Simplex accent 2 exhibits the same property,cf. Figure 10.Pitch (Hz)5004003002001000där åkte vi förr nn å ˈba- da’we went there back then to swim’, , , L H L0 2.271Time (s)Figure 10. Lexical L tone in the main stress syllableof simplex accent 2. Earlier timing of final HL%fall. E8w: 2ˈbada ‘swim’.Listening to speaker E8w (Figures 7, 8, 10,11), one clearly hear some features that arecharacteristic of the Dalabergslag dialect (DB),spoken northwestward of Eskilstuna. In thisdialect, the lexical/post-lexical tone of accent 2is L, and the latter part of the contour is HL%.However, it would not be right to simply classifythis informant and others sounding muchlike her as DB speakers, as the intonation incompounds is different from that of DB proper.In DB proper there is a sharp LH rise on theprimary stress of compounds, followed by aplateau (cf. Figure 12). This is not the case inthis Eskilstuna variety where the rise does notoccur until the final stress. 2 The pattern is thesame in longer compounds, too, as illustrated inFigure 11.Pitch (Hz)4003002001000i kö flera timmar för att få enˈpalt-ˌbröds-ˌka- ka’in a queue for several hours to get a palt bread loaf’L H , ,L, ,0 2.921Time (s)Figure 11. Postlexical L tone in the main stress syllableof compound accent 2. E8w: 2ˈpaltˌbrödsˌkaka‘palt bread loaf’.Due to the extra space afforded by a finalunstressed syllable in Figure 11, the final fall islater timed than in Figure 8, but equally abrupt.15