Laryngealization or Pitch Accent - the Case of Danish Stød

Nina Grønnum

Laryngealization or Pitch Accent - the Case of Danish Stød

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

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According to recent proposals Danish stød is the phonetic manifestation of a HL tonal pattern compressed within one syllable, making the stød/non-stød distinction a special case of the more general tonal word accent distinction in Swedish and Norwegian. This review of the relevant aspects of Danish stød and intonation demonstrates that (1) such a tonal representation of stød is contradicted by the phonetic reality. (2) Stød is distributed in words according to roughly the same principles across regional varieties of Danish, but tonal patterns are highly variable. (3) Word accents in Swedish and Norwegian are associated exclusively with stressed syllables, whereas stød occurs also in less than fully stressed syllables, devoid of autonomous pitch movements. (4) A word in Swedish and Norwegian can have one pitch accent only, but Danish words may have more than one stød.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Speech Prosody 7 - Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody : Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody
Editors	Nick Campbell, Dafydd Gibbon, Daniel Hirst
Number of pages	5
Place of Publication	Dublin
Publication date	20 May 2014
Pages	804-808
ISBN (Electronic)	ISSN: 2333-2042
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2014

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Laryngealization or Pitch Accent - the Case of Danish Stød. / Grønnum, Nina.
Speech Prosody 7 - Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody: Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. ed. / Nick Campbell; Dafydd Gibbon; Daniel Hirst. Dublin, 2014. p. 804-808.

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