Original scientific paper

THE PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF 'JER' VOWELS IN CROATIAN

Keith Langston ; Franklin College of Arts and Sciences University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Abstract

The alternation of vowels with zero in Croatian and the other Slavic languages is a complex phenomenon that has long attracted the attention of linguists. This article examines previous phonological analyses that have been developed to account for these alternations in the contemporary Slavic linguistic systems and proposes an alternative approach to this problem within the theoretical framework of autosegmental phonology. The analysis proposed here accounts for a wider range of Croatian data than these earlier analyses, while at the same time it avoids some of the shortcomings of previous approaches.

Keywords

Croatian language; phonology of Croatian; jer vowels

Hrčak ID:

165441

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/165441

Publication date:

13.12.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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