Re: Stød and rising tone

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> > > This might be the way to explain the correspondence between
> > > Danish stød and Swedish tone 1 (rising tone). What do you
> > > think?
> >
> > Your description is right, I speak that way myself. The
> > second part may have a falsetto tone. Maybe the stød was
> > once just subphonemic, being merely an exaggeration helped
> > on its way by a creaky voice.
> > Creaky voice is very common in Southern Sweden.
> >
>
> The reason I asked was that most descriptions I see of it,
> the authors are puzzled why Danish stød should correspond
> to Swedish tone 1, since it's more phonologically similar
> (the authors think) to tone 2 (falling-rising). I thought
> my above observation might account for the correspondence
> between stød and tone 1.
> What do you think?

It occurred to me that perhaps one could use this analysis
in the general case:
a long vowel consists of two morae with level tone,
when rising, the first one is low, the second high,
when falling, the first one is high, the second low.

Does anyone analyse that way now?


Torsten