Opacity in Šmartno Slovenian

Jurgec, Peter

doi:10.1017/s0952675719000137

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“…The list is available in the online supplementary materials. Nominal stems are mostly short in Slovenian (Jurgec 2019), and this is true in this dataset as well: monosyllabic 42%, disyllabic 51%, trisyllabic or longer 7%.…”

Section: Lexicon Study: Lax Vowels Drive Stress Shiftsupporting

confidence: 54%

“…For the relatively young participants in the study, this is to be expected, given the increase in fluency in standard Slovenian since the 1950s. Mastery of standard Slovenian is also high among older speakers; in Jurgec (2019) even the oldest, most fluent speakers of local dialects without mobile stress appeared to have easy access to the mobile stress patterns of standard Slovenian.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Two types of paradigms are observed in Slovenian nouns with penultimate stress in the nominative singular, as in (3): uniform paradigms, in which stress is faithful (fixed) throughout the declension, and mobile paradigms, in which stress surfaces on the penultimate vowel of the stem in the nominative singular and on the final vowel in the rest of the paradigm, exemplified here by the genitive singular (Toporišič 2000, Jurgec 2007).

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Positional faithfulness drives laxness alternations in Slovenian

Becker

Jurgec

2020

Phonology

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We analyse the distribution of vowel laxness and stress alternations in Slovenian nouns (for example in the nominative and genitive forms of the masculine noun [ˈjɛzik ~ jeˈzika] ‘tongue’), showing that stress shifts away from mid lax vowels in initial syllables. A stress shift of this sort is predicted by positional faithfulness (Beckman 1997). We show that this prediction is correct, contra McCarthy (2007, 2010) and Jesney (2011). The productivity of the pattern is confirmed in a large-scale nonce-word task. Stress shift in Slovenian is a result of the markedness of mid lax vowels and, perhaps counterintuitively, faithfulness to laxness in initial stressed position.

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Section: Lexicon Study: Lax Vowels Drive Stress Shiftsupporting

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Positional faithfulness drives laxness alternations in Slovenian

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Jurgec

2020

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“…All text was written using informal conventions (e.g. vid' instead of the standard vidi 'sees', rekl instead of the standard rekli 'said') to prime the participants for non-standard stimuli; see Jurgec (2019) for using similar methodology in a production experiment on another dialect of Slovenian. Stimuli were never presented orthographically.…”

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Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

Beguš¹,

Jurgec²

2021

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The prosodic systems of the world’s languages vary widely in their complexity. In this paper, we report on a prosodic pattern in Žiri Slovenian, which displays an intricate set of interactions between tone, stress, quantity, and vowel quality. Some of the prosodic patterns are well motivated (e.g. the preference of High tone syllables to be stressed) while others lack phonetic or phonological motivation (e.g. the preference of long vowels to fall on the second syllable of a trochaic foot). Žiri also displays a rare case of interaction of prosody with vowel quality. To confirm productivity of the observed patterns, we conducted a wug experiment that tested the dependence of stress on vowel quality, word length, and tone. All in all, this paper brings forth new instances of phonetically unmotivated phonological processes at the suprasegmental level, which appear less discussed than at the segmental level. We also discuss methodological issues arising from artificial experiments on tonal processes.

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“…There are contradictory reports in the literature regarding whether or not the dialect of Slovenian spoken in Ljubljana is tonemic (e.g. Gvozdanović 1999: 848; Šuštaršič & Tivadar 2005; Marušič & Žaucer 2006; Woznicki 2006; Jurgec 2007). This paper is concerned with intonation at the sentence level.…”

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The intonation of the Q-marking construction: A comparison of Hungarian and Slovenian

Mycock

2019

J. Ling.

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This paper examines the Q-marking construction: an interrogative construction in which a question phrase takes scope over a higher clause even though it appears in a lower clause. In this construction, the scope of a question phrase is extended by the presence of another word, the Q-marker, in a higher clause. While the syntax of this construction has been described and analysed in a number of works, its intonation is yet to receive commensurate attention. This paper presents data from two unrelated languages in which the Q-marking construction can be used to form questions: Hungarian and Slovenian. Data show that while the Q-marker shares properties with question words in Hungarian (they bear the same pitch accent), in Slovenian the Q-marker and question words bear distinct pitch accents. Furthermore, in Hungarian a direct intonational link exists between the Q-marker and a question phrase whose scope is extended, rather than an indirect one between the Q-marker and the entire lower clause in which the question phrase appears. The Slovenian data are compatible with the existence of either an indirect or a direct intonational link. These findings reveal hitherto unidentified dimensions of cross-linguistic variation, for which any analysis of the Q-marking construction must account.

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Opacity in Šmartno Slovenian

Cited by 5 publications

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Positional faithfulness drives laxness alternations in Slovenian

Positional faithfulness drives laxness alternations in Slovenian

Tone, stress, quantity, and quality: prosodic patterns and tonal wug-tests in Žiri Slovenian

The intonation of the Q-marking construction: A comparison of Hungarian and Slovenian

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