Original scientific paper
The Acute Accent in the Southwest Istrian Dialect
David Mandić
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Department of Humanities, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents the results of research on the accentual systems of the southwest Istrian dialect area. The study included the subdialects of 16 settlements, all of which have tonal distinctions (except in the speech of younger people). The neo-acute accent inherited from the earlier period appears only sporadically in a couple of border dialects. The acute accent which exists today in southwest Istrian arose as a result of recent stress retractions. These subdialects differ in the distribution of the acute accent depending on the contexts in which these stress retractions had taken place as well as on various analogical processes that followed these retractions. In addition, the difference between the results of early retractions and more recent ones provides valuable insight into the earlier state of the accentual system of this dialect, which can be useful for the study of both Croatian and Slavic historical accentology.
Keywords
Čakavian dialect group; southwest Istrian dialect; prosody; accent; (neo-)acute; accentual paradigm
Hrčak ID:
144132
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2010.
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