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Danish has the characteristic prosodic feature, stød, which is typically associated with a creaky articulation due to either a glottal stop or laryngelization in the vocal folds. The stød has a traditional dialectal variant which I have found an abundant use of among the young generation in South Funen: A rising tonal accent (RTA). The RTA affects the intonation of Funen dialect to be more melodic than the Standard Danish intonation (Pedersen 2002: 46). I am currently working on a ph.d.-project that investigates what role Funen dialectic features plays in the construction of individual and group-identities among adolescents on South Funen. The theoretical framework is within the 2nd and 3rd wave of sociolinguistic variation (Eckert 2008; 2012), and I especially focus on indexicality (Silverstein 2003) and style (Quist 2005). I have made an ethnographic fieldwork in a primary school in Skårup on South Funen, where I have observed and collected acoustic data from 35 pupils (21 identifying as girls, 14 as boys, 15-16 years). The data includes self-recordings, recordings of group work, 1:1-interviews and readings of a text with minimal pairs (stød-no stød) and monosyllables with high vowels, which traditionally led to a RTA (Andersen 1958: 36; Boas 2023a). Based on the readings, I have acoustically analyzed the RTAs in Praat (Boersma & Weenik 2023). I have auditorily coded this corpus for the presence of South Funen RTA and a range of social (meanings), pragmatic and interactional factors (inspired by Levon 2016). For this poster I will focus on 3 individuals from 2 different social groups (6 all in all), their use of RTA and the social meanings they produce (Eckert 2008; Campbell-Kibler 2007a, 2007b).Through a qualitative analysis my results show that the RTA has become a resource the young generation in South Funen can choose to draw on in specific contexts, rather than it being a moribund feature of the language associated with older generations. I’ve found that the variant varies indexically among the boys, who have a positive stance towards the local and/or the regional area. These groups of boys used RTAs systematically when being together, but not necessarily individually. The RTA served a group membership function for group A and B, however there were complex indexical group specific differences. Group A had a more positive stance, and with the use of RTA they expressed chill, humor and having a good time. In group B it had a more negative stance; here the use of RTA expressed lazy and cocky attitudes, and fun in a more teasing sense (Boas 2023b). Both groups have members who switched style during the breaks in school, while in class they would speak the standard variety. It seems that this traditional dialectic feature has a local, social benefit, and has been reallocated to be put at use differently by individuals seeking certain groups, even in young generations of Danish speakers.