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Alphabet & Pronunciation

Swedish alphabet (å, ä, ö), pitch accent, vowel length and key pronunciation rules
Historisk fonologi: från fornnordiska till modern svenska
Historical phonology: from Old Norse to Modern Swedish
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Centuries of sound change separate the two stages of the language
Tonaccentsystemet: jämförande skandinavisk syn
The tonal accent system: comparative Scandinavian perspective
Norwegian, Danish differences
Related Scandinavian languages handle pitch accent quite differently
Retroflexion som areellt skandinaviskt fenomen
Retroflexion as an areal Scandinavian sonority phenomenon
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A shared regional sound pattern across parts of Scandinavia
Rikssvenska vs dialektal variation
Standard Swedish vs regional dialects
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The broadcast standard coexists with many living regional varieties
Finlandssvenska som egen nationell varietet
Finland Swedish as a distinct national variety
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An officially recognized variety with its own norms
Historisk förlust av kasus/genus från fornsvenska
Historical loss of case/gender distinctions from Old Swedish
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Old Swedish had a richer case and gender system than today's
Sociofonetik: Stockholmska som sändningsstandard
Sociophonetics: Stockholm speech as the emerging broadcast standard
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Media exposure increasingly shapes the perceived "neutral" accent
Beräkningsmässig igenkänning av tonaccent
Computational tone/accent recognition challenges
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Pitch accent poses unique challenges for speech technology
Korpusresurser för svensk lingvistik (Språkbanken)
Corpus resources for Swedish linguistics
Språkbanken
A major digital resource for studying Swedish computationally
Svenska inom det nordgermanska dialektkontinuumet
Swedish within the North Germanic/Scandinavian dialect continuum
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Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish form a graded continuum of mutual intelligibility