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Croatian pitch-accents: fact and fiction

Standard Croatian is a normatively described high-prestige dialect, which most Croatians in public life attempt to acquire, and which is taught in schools. It has four pitch accents, long/short rising/falling. We present acoustic and perceptual analyses of dana from a wide range of speakers from different dialect back-grounds, showing that even for those with closely related native dialects with four accents, the established descriptions do not match productions – for example, rising tones do not rise, and the moraic tonal structure does not agree. There is a wide range of accentuation from a tonal system with four pitch-accents to a stress/dynamic system with one accent which is a short stressed.

pitch accent ; tone ; acoustics ; Croatian ; word prosody

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