History Stød






hemming gadh quoted johannes magnus, 1554, historia de omnibus gothorum sueonumque regibus

danish must have had stød in 16th century speech against danes swedish bishop, hemming gadh, quoted johannes magnus, mentions particular guttural cough associated danish. has been considered must have arisen sometime in middle ages, perhaps around 1300. scholars have suggested goes original population groups , line between stød , non-stød dialects represent ancient invasion south.


stød first mentioned in 1743 second treatise on orthography of jens pedersen høysgaard, described stop of breath caused closing of pharynx. 1 propose term stødetone, thrust-tone , later abbreviated stød.


the historical origin of stød matter of debate, systematically related word accents of swedish , norwegian: has been proposed original old norse monosyllables (not counting definite article, still separate word) received stød, while words of 2 or more syllables did not. explain why hund [ˈhunˀ] ( dog ), hunden [ˈhunˀn̩] ( dog ) , finger [ˈfeŋˀɐ] ( finger ; old norse fingr in 1 syllable) have stød in modern danish, while hunde [ˈhunə] ( dogs ), hundene [ˈhunn̩ə] ( dogs ) , fingre [ˈfeŋʁɐ] ( fingers ) not.


it has been proposed originated phonetic consequences of original devoicing of old norse syllable-final voiced consonants in dialect areas. phonetic laryngealization phonemicized scandinavian languages restructured nominal morphology introducing definite suffixes.








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