Bilješka o književnome naglasku hrvatskome
A Note on Croatian Literary Accent

Summary/Abstract: Well-known accentual facts are revisited and interpreted using a strict informational approach to describe samples of nominal inflection. The accentual distinctive features are quantity and position of high pitch. Variant quantity is concomitant with variant position of high pitch, invariant brevity is invariantly pitched. Underlying syllables are pitched or pitchless. If the high pitch in an accentual unit is initialized, all the syllables are pitchless, else the first underlying pitch is realized. Generally the pitch of a higher or equal rank takes priority over the following ones. Selectional criteria for literary usage are discussed. A survey of traditional types as well as an inventory of accentual stems and desinences are given. Production rules to generate the length and pitch alternations are stated.

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