Livonian stød

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2007

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2003

Parts of a new model of phonology-morphology-lexicon interplay is presented to account for the complex distribution of the Modern Danish stød (a syllabic prosody). Stød, which is sometimes productive for speakers, is analysed as a signal of the second mora of bimoraic syllables not subject to the Non-Stød Principle (NSP). The author's cross-language model for Systematically Graded Productivity of Endings (section 3) is shown to account for the application of NSP (section 4), and a detailed typology of lexemes with respect to stød-alternations, derived from the model, is presented in section 5. In section 6, a simple case of stød-alternations in inflection, viz. regular plurals of nouns, is given, and section 7 exemplifies stød and non-stød as a key to morphology for the addressee.

John Ole Askedal & Hans Frede Nielsen (eds.), Early Germanic Languages in Contact, pp. 23-38. NOWELE Supplement Series 27. Amsterdam - Philadelphia, PA., 2015

Research in Language, 2007

Nordlyd, 2004

This special five-volume edition is both Nordlyd number 31 and the Proceedings for the Nineteenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Here I provide a little background for the conference and the Proceedings. SCL 19 was held in Tromsø on January 10–12, 2002, under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL) and with support from the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study (NorFA), the University of Tromsø, the Faculty of Humanities, and the English Department at the University of Tromsø. The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) also contributed to the production of this Proceedings.

R. Goedemans, J. Heinz, H. van der Hulst (eds.). The study of word stress and accent: theories, methods and data. Cambridge University Press, p. 102-143, 2019

The typology of word prosody is still a subject of debate. Tone and stress remain the central units of classification; however, there is not an established consensus about their definitions. In this chapter, I focus on two specific word-prosodic units with a non-pitch based primary phonetic exponent: prosodic quantity in Standard Estonian and prosodic laryngealization in Copenhagen Danish. I summarize their main phonetic and functional features with special attention placed on their relation to pitch and stress in the respective languages. I also compare these prosodic units with functionally similar cases of pitch-based word prosody in other languages and put them in the framework of mainstream word-prosodic typology. Both cases are challenging for the typology, as they are full-fledged phonological word-prosodic units, but do not qualify either as tone or as stress. In the end, I discuss a possible input from such cases into the debate on distinction between the notions of tone, stress, and accent.

Stephen Laker, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma, and Michael Schulte (eds.), Germanic Interrelations: Studies in Memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, pp. 144-156. North-Western European Language Evolution Supplement Series 34. Amsterdam - Philadelphia, PA., 2025

This paper is a tribute not only to Hans Frede Nielsen but also to all the other Danish linguists on behalf of all the Finnish linguists. Namely, Finland would hardly have become a “superpower” in Uralic studies without the boost of the two great Danish Indo-Europeanists, Rasmus Rask and Vilhelm Thomsen, who were instrumental in launching the two 19th-century comparative linguistic revolutions in Finland: Palaeogrammarian and Neogrammarian. While Rask served as a role model for the earliest Finnish Uralicists A. J. Sjögren and M. A. Castrén, Thomsen started the modern era in Finnic and Sámi studies, inspiring the foremost Finnish Neogrammarians E. N. Setälä and J. J. Mikkola.

2002

In this sequel to Grønnum and Basbøll (2001a) two questions in the analysis of Danish stød are ad- dressed. (1) Vowels with stød are phonologically long; they are proposed also to b e bi-moraic, with the second mora carrying the stød. We confirm the acoustic reality of length and a tendency, though only moderate, to acoustic bi-partition. (2) In a