Note 172 — Chapter IV · PHONOLOGY AND SEMATOLOGY. (continued 2)

The compound tone in Swedish, according to Mr. Sweet, “only occurs in words of more than one syllable,” and “consists of a falling tone on the first (the accented syllable), followed by a high tone on the next. The high tone seems to be reached by a jump rather than by a glide. The compound is, therefore, a compound rise distributed over two syllables.” The other Swedish accent, the simple tone, is the negative of the compound one, and answers to the “glottal catch” or stöd tone of Danish.