Vlera dalluese dhe kontrastive e theksit në gjuhën shqipe
Distinctive and Contrasting Value of the Accent in the Albanian Language

Summary/Abstract: Generally speaking, the Albanian stress as a prosodic feature has been studied from different points of view: some studies evaluate Albanian language for penultimate stress (Dodi 1970, 2004, Dodi & Gjinari 1983, Bevington 1974, Topalli 1995, Quiles 2007, Friedman 2004, Max Bane & Jason Riggle 2008), for final stress (Newmark, Hubbard & Prifti 1982, Maynard 1997, Hulst, Hendriks&Weijer 1999), but also specifying them based on lexical-grammatical categories, according to which the Albanian accented the last syllable of the verbal stems, and the last syllable of prepositions; nouns are often stressed on the penultimate syllable (Beekes 2011). Practically, the distinctive value of the stress will include the quantitative calculated reports for each word with the letter A of the Dictionary (“Fjalor i shqipes së sotme” (2002)), especially for the position of the stress, and its change that is determined by the distinction of the lexical and grammatical categories. The fundamental contribution of the generative metrical stress theory is its formal treatment, because of the relation between the syllables. Some syllables are metrically strong: reflected in the stressattracting; while the others are metrically weak and thus reject the stress. Thus, Albanian is sensitive to metrical quantity or syllables quantity.

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