Stød and Length in Standard D Laboratory Pho

Three questions in the analysis of Danish stød are addressed. (1) Vowels with stød are phonologically long; they are proposed also to be bi-moraic, with the second mora carrying the stød. We confirm the acoustic reality of length, but a moderate statistical tendency only to acoustic bi-partition. (2) In a perceptual experiment vowels with stød were judged to resemble long stødless vowels by eight subjects, whereas eight other subjects paired syllables with stød, irrespective of vowel length. (3) In a visual analogue scaling experiment, 81 subjects were asked to fix the point in time in the vowel where stød begins. They could not.