Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/9xn31co8gy
The Phonology of the Local Dialect of Šišljavić: From the Kajkavian Treasury of Karlovac’s Eastern Pokuplje
Marina Marinković
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Anita Celinić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3954-0920
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Abstract
The paper presents the results of the research on the phonology of the local
dialect of Šišljavić, a village in Karlovac’s eastern Pokuplje. According to Ivšić's
classification, this dialect belongs to the Turopolje-Posavina group, described
by Ivšić as revolutionary in terms of accentuation. Its prosody is, among other
things, characterized by the metatony of the neoacute into the long falling accent
in the final / only and in most of the non-final syllables (e.g., letȋ, mlȃtim), by
the retraction (metataxis) of the original neocircumflex (e.g., psekel), and
by the retraction of the short accent from the ultima, with the short penultima
subsequently lengthened (e.g., vĩno, võda). The vowel system is principally
characterized by the assimilation of yat and schwa, as well as by the existence
of different reflections for originally long and subsequently lengthened vowels.
Several specific characteristics are singled out with regard to consonantism: the
absence of the velar x, the presence of the palatal fricative ś as well as of the
affricate pair č and ć. These features link this dialect to a series of local Kajkavian
dialects of the wider area south of Zagreb on the one hand, and to the nearby
dialects of the Plješivica-Ozalj type with similar (or identical) consonant features
on the other.
Keywords
vocalism; consonantism; prosody; Karlovac’s eastern Pokuplje; Šišljavić
Hrčak ID:
269246
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Publication date:
27.12.2021.
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