Re: Danish: tonal suffices?

>From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>Subject: Re: Danish: tonal suffices?
>Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:07:26 +0200
>Then the book I mentioned is a definite must for you. There is a chapter
>in the book dedicated to current developments in Danish phonology and
>hints at what Danish could sound like in the future if the developments
>continue. I can list them down if you want.
If it's not too much work for you, I'd be very grateful for a short list :)
(searching linguistic works on something interesting can take a *very* long
time; linguists are the least user-friendly writers I have seen yet among
academic authors ;) (oh yeah, _especially_ linguists writing about IE - I
don't know if I'll ever find any accessible text about the language).

>Structural phonology analyses the phonology of a language based on
>surface contrasts resulting in a taxonomic phonemic ('classical
>phonemic') representation of words. Generative phonology, on the other
>hand, proposes that abstract underlying representations are converted
>into surface representations by the application of language specific
>rules. This can result in different interpretations. For instance, the
>Danish [D] sound can be considered a (defectively distributed) phoneme
>in structural phonology. But in generative phonology it would be
>considered the surface value of (an abstract) syllable-final /d/.
Which would place me in the generativist camp, I suppose.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Oskar
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