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Assessment of linguistic closeness and comparison and of acoustic characteristics of Croatian and Serbian languages

The aim of this study was to examine how the educated speakers of General Croatian assess the linguistic closeness of Croatian (N=37) and Serbian speakers (N=37) based on the verified tokens of spontaneous speech. In order to determine whether there are acoustic differences between the languages the acoustic analysis included: F0 in Hz and semitones (Pt) and vowel formants (F1-F4). Also, Df was calculated from formant values. The results show the difference in linguistic closeness (p<0.00001) and as well as differences in F0 values, F1 for vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ and F2 for /i/ and /e/, while the differences for F3 were smaller. No significant differences were found for Df, so it can be concluded that vocal tract length does not influence the results of vowel formants.

vowels ; formant frequencies ; linguistic closeness ; Croatian ; Serbian

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