Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcv8ry
The prosody of the local dialect of Pojatno
Mateja Šporčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6184-0164
; Veleučilište Baltazar Zaprešić
Abstract
The local dialect of Pojatno greatly resembles the local dialects of the adjacent settlements of Donja Pušća and Kupljenovo, as well as the local dialects of a few smaller villages in the municipalities of Pušća and Zaprešić. It appears that these local dialects constitute a special group, and the basic isoglosses that distinguish it from the adjacent dialects are the following: the preservation of the archaic accentual system (Ivšić’s type I1), which differentiates it from the adjacent local dialects to the north and to the east; reflexes of jat and of the semivowel ə as a vowel of the e-type, which differentiate it from the local dialects of the Lower-Sutla dialect to the south and to the west; and reflexes of the back nasal vowel and of the syllabic l as u. This paper presents in detail the results of the research of the local dialect of Pojatno, which is seen as paradigmatic of this newly identified group of local dialects. More specifically, the paper presents its prosodic system, whose most distinctive features are the preservation of the old place of accent and the oxytonesis of the type žen, tonal opposition in the long accented ultimate syllable, and quantitative opposition in the syllable that precedes the short accented syllable. The results of the research point to the fact that the prosodic system of Pojatno greatly resembles the prosodic system of Donja Pušća and exhibits a negligible number of innovations with regard to the assumed basic Kajkavian accentuation.
Keywords
prosody; local dialect of Pojatno; Kajkavian dialect group
Hrčak ID:
286884
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Publication date:
9.12.2022.
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