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Naglasak u tekstovima hrvatskih pisaca
Marking Accents in Texts by Croatian Writers

Author(s): Stjepan Babić
Subject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Croatian Literature, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Croatian Writers; Accents; homographs; contemporary Croatian literary texts;

Summary/Abstract: Using a representative corpus of contemporary Croatian literary texts, the author analyzes the most frequent situations where the writers decided to mark accents graphically. Conclusion: there is no need to mark accents on homographs when the context is clear enough to disambiguate their reading.

  • Issue Year: 42/1994
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 33-40
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian