Danish Stød in Compounds: A Stratal Match Theory Analysis

Stød is a laryngeal prosody residing on particular Danish syllables (Fischer-Jørgensen 1989). The distributional rules of stød are exceedingly complex, and especially the prosody of Danish compounds has played a central role in recent theoretical work on the phonology of compounds and prosodic recu...

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Main Author: Yonatan Goldshtein
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2025-02-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catjl/article/view/466
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Summary:Stød is a laryngeal prosody residing on particular Danish syllables (Fischer-Jørgensen 1989). The distributional rules of stød are exceedingly complex, and especially the prosody of Danish compounds has played a central role in recent theoretical work on the phonology of compounds and prosodic recursion driven by the morphology-phonology interface (Ito & Mester 2015, 2021). Whereas previous work accounts for a subset of relatively simple, well-behaved compounds, the present article offers a comprehensive analysis of the phonology of stød in Danish compounds including two different types of lexical exceptions. For this analysis, the article proposes an implementation of Match Theory (Selkirk 2011; Ishihara & Kalivoda 2022) within the broader framework of Stratal Optimality Theory (Bermúdez-Otero 2018). This combined framework, Stratal Match Theory, provides a restrictive theory for the construction of prosodic structure at the morphology-phonology interface and offers a principled approach to lexical exceptions applicable beyond the phonology of Danish compounds.
ISSN:1695-6885
2014-9719