Characteristics of the Accentual System in High School Students’ Speeches in Derventa Cover Image

О неким особинама акценатског система говора млађих становника Дервенте
Characteristics of the Accentual System in High School Students’ Speeches in Derventa

Author(s): Slađana M. Cukut
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: High School Students’ Speeches in Derventa; speech of the Herzegovina-Krajina type; Characteristics of the Accentual System;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a phonologic description of the Derventa speeches with accents distribution, distribution of vowel lengths, with position after an accented syllable in some word categories, and specifi c stress transfer to the proclitic. The results indicate that all of the pupils conserve vowel lengths, with position after an accented syllable, while in the eastern Serbian speeches the tendency of losing these lengths has taken root. It is noticeable that stress transfer to the proclitic is not as frequent as in the western Serbian speeches. Registered accentual doublets are quite common in many western speeches.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 103-111
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian