Abstract
The Danish prosodic phenomenon stod is associated with a specific range of suffixes including the singular definite suffixes-en and-et. Diachronically, as well as distributionally, stod is related to Swedish/Norwegian accent 1, but unlike accent 1, stod is seen as phonetically and phonologically marked. Keeping in mind the cross-distribution between phonetic/phonological markedness and distributional patterns, we investigate here whether stod is also related to accent 1 when it comes to cognitive markedness. We present the results of a psycholinguistic study in which participants attended to words that were either appropriate combinations of prosody (stod vs. non-stod) and suffix (singular definite-en/-et vs. plural indefinite-e) or mismatches between prosody and suffix. Participants gave slower and more inaccurate responses to mismatches. This effect of mismatch was most pronounced for words with non-stod stems, indicating that the cognitive markedness status of stod corresponds to that of accent 2.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Nordic Journal of Linguistics |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages (from-to) | 163-187 |
| ISSN | 0332-5865 |
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| Publication status | Published - 18 Sept 2015 |