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https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdclpdy
The Phonological System of the Dialect of Okruk on the Island of Čiovo
Ante Jurić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0602
; Centar za jadransku onomastiku i etnolingvistiku Sveučilište u Zadru
Sažetak
officially named Okrug Gornji) is the largest and the most populous settlement on the island of Čiovo. In approximately the last 30 years, the population of Okruk has doubled, mostly as the result of the immigration of the Štokavian-speaking population, which, of course, had a certain influence on the description of the present-day local vernacular. However, the autochtonous Čakavian vernacular of Okruk remained a well-preserved and firm system, especially at the level of phonology, but also prosody. The main characteristics of the phonological system of the vernacular of Okruk are (1) its conservative vocalism (with a lack of almost any qualitative change in the pronounciation of vowels), followed by the rather chaotic development of the syllabic r, (2) its rather developed consonant system, and (3) its rather innovative prosody combined with an archaic inventory of prosodic units (the Old Croatian three-accents system: ̏, ̑, ̃). As regards the dialecological value of the collected phonological data, it can be summarized as a predominance of South Čakavian and mainland Čakavian features. In addition, one of the most important characteristics of the Okruk vernacular at the phonological level is its extremely large number of doublet and even triplet solutions in pronunciation and in the choice of vocabulary containing different synchronic reflexes of the same historical phoneme (i.e., Uskȑs/Vazȃm 'Easter',
ĩgla/jãgla 'needle', cȑv/cȓv/čȑv 'worm', etc.), which is exactly the exemplary characteristic of the system in which two diametrically opposed processes are in progress: (1) important structural changes as a result of the influence of the Štokavian standard and non-standard varieties and, simultaneously, (2) the striving to preserve archaic linguistic features and dialectological identity.
Ključne riječi
phonology; dialectology; prosody; Čakavian dialect; Okrug; Okruk
Hrčak ID:
247374
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Datum izdavanja:
8.12.2020.
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