Re: Danish Stød (was: Many consonants)

I wrote:
> Lars Henrik skrev:
> > > Date:         Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:45:23 -0500
> > > From: Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
> -----<snip>-----
> > > I don't know what stød sounds like, but I have in several places
> > > heard it described as "creaky voice".
> >
> > Well, it involves creaky voice, but it's a dynamic thing where the
> > creakiness increases sharply at the end of the sonority peak of a
> > stressed syllable, sometimes, but by no means always, becoming a
> > regular glottal stop.
> >
> > Glottalized tone might actually be a good term.
> >
> > Anyway, some speakers have (non-phonemically) creaky voiced vowels
> > even in some syllables without stød, so /_k/ on the vowel wouldn't be
> > the best transcription.
>
> ...and some dialects lack stød altogether, notably the southern
> dialects from southern Jutland (Jylland) to the islands south of
> Zealand (Sjælland).
>
> If you wanna hear how Danish stød sounds like, Muke, I suggest
> you go to:
>
> www.sb.aau.dk/dlh/dialekt/dialekt.html
>
> It is a clickable dialect-map of Denmark. Each link leads you
> to another page with a sound recording of the chosen dialect
> and a phonetic transcription of the dialect. The transcription,
> I'm afraid, is in an internet version of Dania (the Danish
> phonetic alphabet), but its not too difficult to follow. You
> also need RealPlayer to play the files. Also remember to avoid
> the southern dialects, 'cuz they completely lack the stød.
I went through all the dialects, and the dialect that has the
most crisp and clear stød is the north Zealand dialect:

http://www.sb.aau.dk/dlh/dialekt/21.html

Hope that helps.

-kristian- 8)