Dialectal_variation Stød

a map showing distribution of stød in danish dialects. dialects in pink areas have stød, in standard danish. dialects in green areas have tones, in swedish , norwegian. dialects in blue areas have neither stød nor tones, in icelandic, german , english.

standard danish follows rule stød laid out above, there dialectal variation. there 4 main regional variants realization of stød:

in southeastern jutlandic, southernmost funen, southern langeland , Ærø, there no stød pitch accent.
south of line (danish: stødgrænsen stød border ) goes through central south jutland , crosses southern funen , central langeland , north of lolland-falster, møn, southern zealand , bornholm, there neither stød nor pitch accent.
in of jutland , on zealand, there stød.
in zealandic traditional dialects , regional language there more stød occurrences in standard language. in zealand, stød line divides southern zealand (without stød), area used directly under crown, rest of zealand, used property of various noble estates.

in dialects pitch accent, such southern jutlandic of als (synnejysk), stød , non-stød correspond low-level tone , high-level tone in standard danish:

on zealand, traditional dialects have phenomenon called short vowel stød (kortvokalstød); monosyllabic words short vowel , coda consonant cluster take stød if followed definite suffix: præst [pʁæst] priest , præsten [ˈpʁæˀstn̩] priest .

western jutlandic stød

in western jutland, second stød, more preconsonantal glottal stop, employed in addition standard danish stød.

the western jutlandic stød called vestjysk stød or v-stød in literature. occurs in different environments, particularly after stressed vowels before final consonant clusters arise elision of final unstressed vowels. example, word pull , /ˈtrækə/ in standard danish, in western jutlandic [tʁæʔk], , present tense form, in standard danish /ˈtrækɐ/, in western jutlandic [ˈtʁæʔkə]. scholars have proposed vestjysk stød ancient, others consider more recent innovation.