Professional paper

On accentuation of loanwords - once again, after Vukušić

Ivo Škarić
Đurđa Škavić
Gordana Varošanec-Škarić

Abstract

lbis article takes the view that the general accentuation rules in Croatian permit
falling accents only on noninitial syllables of the word. Owing to reasons of
linguistic development, this phenomenon is relatively infrequent and, though possible,
is felt to be marginal. Such accentuation is fully acceptable in loanwords
since it singles them out readily, without disturbing the rhythmics of the sentence.

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Hrčak ID:

204081

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/204081

Publication date:

1.12.1996.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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