TY - JOUR

T1 - Stød in unexpected morphological contexts in Standard Danish

T2 - An experimental approach to sound change in progress

AU - Grønnum, Nina

AU - Pharao, Nicolai

AU - Basbøll, Hans

PY - 2020/9/1

Y1 - 2020/9/1

N2 - In recent years stød has appeared in words where the current phonological and morphological principles of its distribution would exclude it. Thus, a disyllable like [ˈsiːðə] side ‘page’ is without stød, also in a compound like [ˈ̥bɑwsiːðə] bagside ‘back page’, but ithas lately been heard with stød: [ˈb̥ɑwsiːˀðə]. In a controlled experiment, speakers were required to produce compounds consisting of an existing initial word succeeded by a final nonce noun. The results indicate that stød may be spreading in this context. Furthermore,its distribution across the 40 nonce nouns was found to be similar to its distribution among existing nouns in the vocabulary: There are more nonce nouns with stød (i) in the definite singular, (ii) especially with short stressed vowels, and (iii) particularly if the initial word is monosyllabic. A change is apparently underway which will eventually partially suspend a non-stød principle which relieves disyllabic lexemes of stød.

AB - In recent years stød has appeared in words where the current phonological and morphological principles of its distribution would exclude it. Thus, a disyllable like [ˈsiːðə] side ‘page’ is without stød, also in a compound like [ˈ̥bɑwsiːðə] bagside ‘back page’, but ithas lately been heard with stød: [ˈb̥ɑwsiːˀðə]. In a controlled experiment, speakers were required to produce compounds consisting of an existing initial word succeeded by a final nonce noun. The results indicate that stød may be spreading in this context. Furthermore,its distribution across the 40 nonce nouns was found to be similar to its distribution among existing nouns in the vocabulary: There are more nonce nouns with stød (i) in the definite singular, (ii) especially with short stressed vowels, and (iii) particularly if the initial word is monosyllabic. A change is apparently underway which will eventually partially suspend a non-stød principle which relieves disyllabic lexemes of stød.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - stød, dansk, eksperimentel fonologi; morfologi; non-stød princip; produktivitet; prosodi; lydforandring; ordstruktur

KW - stød, dansk, ordstruktur, non-stød princip, morfologi, produktivitet, prosodi, lydforandring, eksperimentel fonologi

U2 - 10.1017/S0332586520000074

DO - 10.1017/S0332586520000074

M3 - Journal article

VL - 43

SP - 147

EP - 180

JO - Nordic Journal of Linguistics

JF - Nordic Journal of Linguistics

SN - 0332-5865

IS - 2

ER -