Re: Why a creole is handy in Germania

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > This fact is usually used to calm non-Danish people
> > who are worried that they can't find out where to place

the "stød"

> > (note that the glottal stop is thus a prosodic feature in Danish,
> not
> > a phoneme, although you can find minimal pairs <man?> "man" /
> > <man> "one, you")
> >
>
> The same with Lithuanian: despite minimal pairs like
> a'uksta^s 'high' : au~ks^tas 'floor, storey', the pitch accent is
> considered to be a prosodical rather than phonemic element, with

what

> it's hard not to agree intuitively, but here's a question back to
> structuralists of the fifties: how is this contradiction to be
> explained?
>
> Sergei

Meaning that for it to be involved in a minimal pair, it must once
have been a phoneme?
I have a similar question: given that Swedish Musical Accent I and
Danish glottal stop, ie. a laryngeal are historically related, how
come linguists have abstained (as far as I know) from relating IE
accent and laryngeals in other IE languages?

Torsten