Serbian/Croatian minimal pairs
Mark R. Lauersdorf
mrldorf at open.org
Fri Nov 12 17:27:08 UTC 1999
Dear SEELangs members,
For a lecture that I am preparing in general phonetics/phonology, I am
interested in finding several minimal pairs (or even triplets or
quadruplets) of word forms in Serbian and/or Croatian that are distinguished
only by accent (long rising vs. long falling vs. short rising vs. short
falling), for example:
gra^d (long falling, = [Nom. sg. masc.] city, town)
vs.
grad (short falling, = [Nom. sg. masc.] hail)
Please indicate accent type as well as full grammatical information and
translation for each item (my access to Serbia/Croatian reference materials
is presently limited, so I would probably be unable to fill in this type of
information myself).
Please respond to me directly at:
mrldorf at open.org
Thanks in advance.
Mark Lauersdorf
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Dr. Mark R. Lauersdorf
mrldorf at open.org
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