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The cognitive status of stød

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Sara Juul Clausen  and
Line Burholt Kristensen
Sara Juul Clausen
Affiliation:
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. vmn681@alumni.ku.dk, burholt@hum.ku.dk
Line Burholt Kristensen
Affiliation:
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 120, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. vmn681@alumni.ku.dk, burholt@hum.ku.dk
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Abstract

The Danish prosodic phenomenon stød is associated with a specific range of suffixes including the singular definite suffixes -en and -et. Diachronically, as well as distributionally, stød is related to Swedish/Norwegian accent 1, but unlike accent 1, stød is seen as phonetically and phonologically marked. Keeping in mind the cross-distribution between phonetic/phonological markedness and distributional patterns, we investigate here whether stød is also related to accent 1 when it comes to cognitive markedness. We present the results of a psycholinguistic study in which participants attended to words that were either appropriate combinations of prosody (stød vs. non-stød) and suffix (singular definite -en/-et vs. plural indefinite -e) or mismatches between prosody and suffix. Participants gave slower and more inaccurate responses to mismatches. This effect of mismatch was most pronounced for words with non-stød stems, indicating that the cognitive markedness status of stød corresponds to that of accent 2.

Keywords

Danishprosodypsycholinguisticsresponse time (RT)stød
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 38 , Special Issue 2: Prosody in the Nordic Languages , October 2015 , pp. 163 - 187
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2015 

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