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A7 Stress (u/c)
This chapter uses specific stress symbols,
different than in the rest of Easy Croatian.
I will give you an overview of stress in Croatian, both Standard Croatian, nonstandard
and in closely related languages. Everything that follows applies to
Standard Croatian and Standard Bosnian and Standard Serbian unless otherwise is
explicitly stated.
General Issues
First, in the Standard Croatian, each vowel can be either short or long. There can be
more than one long vowel in one word. I will mark the vowels as:
Vowel length
short vowel
long vowel
a
ā
This holds also for "vocalic" r: there's long r̄ ; however I will mark it as ŕ, since just a
line over r is, unfortunately, not rendered right in some browsers and mobile
phones.
The stress can be either falling or rising. The falling stress has a tone that's audibly
first high and then falling and staying low. Since the stressed vowel can be either
short or long, there are 4 combinations – the 4 classic "accents" as described in the
19th century:
short vowel long vowel
falling
stress
rising
stress
ri - ba sūn - ce
vo - da rū - ka
I have introduced here the following, special, non-standard markings:
if only one vowel is underlined, it's the stressed vowel with the falling
intonation;
if two vowels are underlined, one after another, the first of them is the