Re: Why a creole is handy in Germania

--- 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