[Possibly OT] Three questions concerning the Swedish language

I've read the f.a.q. "What is sci.lang for?", but am still doubtful whether
the following questions about Swedish are allowed. If they aren't, let me
know; and I'd appreciate if you'd recommend other newsgroups, too, since I
asked the same questions on se.humaniora.svenska recently but have received
no replies yet.
Conversely, if they are IT, I should point out that I haven't a proper
Swedish grammar book at the moment---I'd appreciate recommendations on
that, too (I'm considering buying the large Routledge one).

1) To what extent are vowels weakened in Swedish? I have very very little
Swedish, and I used to think they weren't at all, unlike, say, in English,
and German, to a lesser degree. This until I realized that "hade" is
pronounced [hA.:d@] ([A.] being something like Swedish long "a"; [@] ==>
schwa), or can be pronounced like that. Hence my original question: what
vowels are weakened in unsteressed syllables, and how?

2) All verb forms have accent 2, don't they? What if that verb has a
prefix? Do accents somehow shift? Or what else happens?

3) Assuming a stress consists of three elements, pitch, intensity and time
(I hope I'm not mistaken), when do those elements occur in a word with
accent 2 ( '\___'/ )?





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