Original scientific paper

Phonological characteristics of local speech of Brežani near Karlovac

Marina Marinković ; The Linguistic Research Institute Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper discusses the main phonological characteristics of local speech of Brežani based on the fieldwork. Brežani is a village located 15 km south-east from Karlovac, near the south bank of the Kupa river. So far, in the research of this dialectologically complicated area around Karlovac, vernacular Brežani has not been the focus of investigations. According to the Lončarić’s Kajkavian map, this vernacular belongs to the vukomeričkopokupski dialect, which is determined by the accent type pȍsẹkel – poskli (the western part of Ivšić’s turopoljsko-posavska group) and the same reflexes of *ǫ = * > u. In this paper, the author provides the vowel, consonant and prosodic inventory of Brežani speech, she describes features of distribution in these inventories and she shows the origin of their components. It has been shown that the local speech of Brežani has a few typical Kajkavian phonological characteristics and also some characteristics typical of other Croatian dialect groups.

Keywords

phonology; Brežani; vukomeričko-pokupski dialect

Hrčak ID:

143778

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143778

Publication date:

24.6.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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