Editing Danish language (section)

=== Prosody ===
[[File:Danish pitch.png|thumb|A pitch trace of the sentence {{lang|da|Håndboldspil er meget belastende}} 'Handball playing is very demanding'.]]
Danish is characterized by a [[prosody (linguistics)|prosodic]] feature called {{lang|da|[[stød]]}} ({{lit|thrust}}). This is a form of laryngealization or [[creaky voice]]. Some sources have described it as a [[glottal stop]], but this is a very infrequent realization, and today phoneticians consider it a phonation type or a prosodic phenomenon.{{sfn|Fischer-Jørgensen|1989}} The occurrence is also dependent on stress, and some varieties also realize it primarily as a tone.{{sfn|Kyst|2008}} The {{lang|da|[[stød]]}} has phonemic status, since it serves as the sole distinguishing feature of words with different meanings in [[minimal pair]]s such as {{lang|da|bønder}} ("peasants") with {{lang|da|stød}}, versus {{lang|da|bønner}} ("beans") without {{lang|da|stød}}. The distribution of {{lang|da|stød}} in the vocabulary is related to the distribution of the common Scandinavian [[pitch accent]]s found in most dialects of [[Norwegian phonology#Accent|Norwegian]] and [[Swedish phonology#Stress and pitch|Swedish]].{{sfn| Basbøll|2005|pp=83–86}}

[[stress (linguistics)|Stress]] is phonemic and distinguishes words such as {{lang|da|billigst}} {{IPA|/ˈbilisd/}} "cheapest" and {{lang|da|bilist}} {{IPA|/biˈlisd/}} "car driver".{{sfn|Rischel|2012|p=811}}

[[Intonation (linguistics)|Intonation]] reflects the stress group, sentence type and prosodic phrase. In Copenhagen Standard Danish, the pitch pattern reaches its lowest peak within the stress group on the stressed syllable followed by its highest peak on the following unstressed syllable, after which it declines gradually until the next stress group.{{sfn|Grønnum|1998b}}
In [[Interactional linguistics|interaction]], pitch can mark e.g. the end of a story{{sfn|Mikkelsen|Kragelund|2015}} and turn-taking.{{sfn|Steensig|2001}}