Features of low functional load in mono- and bilinguals' lexical access: evidence from Swedish tonal accent

Swedish makes use of tonal accents (Accents 1 and 2) to contrast words, but the functional load is very low, with some regional dialects not even exhibiting the contrast. In particular given the low number of minimal pairs, the question is whether tonal word accent is used in lexical access. Here we...

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Main Authors: Althaus, N, Wetterlin, A, Lahiri, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021