Original scientific paper

The phonological description of the Beli speech

Ankica Čilaš Šimpraga orcid.org/0000-0001-7655-4139 ; The Institute of Croatian language and linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article addresses the description of the Beli speech phonemic system, a local speech of the Cres island. Phonemic system was described on the basis of the standardized questionnaire in the Croatian Linguistic Atlas. The Beli speech appertains to North-čakavian dialects. The author describes the phonemic inventory, the distribution and origin of units in the vowel, consonant and accentual system. The vowel system is composed of five vowels in long syllables (ī, , , , ū) and five vowels in short syllables (i, e, a, o, u). The consonant system has 19 units. Also  appears as a marginal phoneme. Long vowels can be accentuated, and short ones can be both accentuated and unaccented. The speech has three accents ( ˈ ͡ ͠ ), without unaccented lengths.

Keywords

phonology; Beli; Croatian Linguistic Atlas; Ekavian dialect; Čakavian dialect group

Hrčak ID:

143780

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143780

Publication date:

24.6.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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