Re: Stød and rising tone

> > 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?

I noticed the recorded announcements in the Copenhagen S-trains
is by a Sjællænder: Østerpo?O(R)t, Nørrepo(?)O(R)t,
... holde opsy?n. med bagage...
which shows the second mora might be a resonant, not just a
vowel.


Torsten