Original scientific paper

TWO POSSIBLE FONOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONSOF THE PROSODIC SYSTEM IN THE SPEECH OF CAVTAT

Dalibor Brozović

Abstract

Today’s speech in Cavtat is more representative of the Dubrovnik sub-dialect than today’s urbanized and somewhat mixed speech in the city of Dubrovnik
itself. Older dialectology maintained that in the Dubrovnik sub-dialect the new-štokavian short-ascending accent in the penultimate position in front of the short concluding vocal is transformed into the long-ascending accent (vòda>vóda), while in the eastern part of the sub-dialect is changed in the same position of trisyllabic
and polysyllabic words into the short-descending accent(dobròta>dobröta). The article reveals that what we have here are two specific allophones of the short-ascending prosodem (vŏda, dobröta).

Keywords

Dubrovnik; Cavtat; dialect; accent

Hrčak ID:

16981

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/16981

Publication date:

12.1.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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