In early phonetics, the speech process—in analogy to writing the letters of the alphabet—was seen as a series of discrete individual sounds (steady-state sounds) in which the articulatory organs did not move. For the transition from one...

Swedish (svenska (help·info)) is a North Germanic language, spoken by more than nine million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually...