Another Piece of Evidence in Favor of the Rising Contour of the Proto-Slavic Old Acute
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https://doi.org/10.3986/JZ.27.1.12Keywords:
Proto-Slavic, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Croatian, Križanić, accentology, acuteAbstract
This article discusses what can be inferred based on Juraj Križanićʼs use of prosodic marks about the phonetic nature of the reflex of the Proto-Slavic old acute in his seventeenth-century Kajkavian-Čakavian dialect, which is unique in that it preserves the old acute and short neoacute as two distinct tonemes in monosyllables in pre-pausal position. Based on the complex alternation of his two short accents, as well as on the peculiar behavior of question words with a rising intonation, which are exempt from this alternation and have a close parallel in Slovenian, it is concluded that old acute was reflected as a short rising tone in Križanićʼs dialect, which makes it plausible that the pre-shortening old acute was indeed a rising tone.
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