Greenberg, Marc L.2009-06-082009-06-082003Marc L. Greenberg. 2003. “Word Prosody in Slovene from a Typological Perspective.” Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 56/3. Focus on: Slovenian from a typological perspective. On the occasion of the International Congress of Slavicists in Ljubljana, 15–21 August 2003, ed. by JanezOrešnik & Donald F. Reindl: 234–251. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.0942-2919https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5245First publication in "STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung. Language Typology and Universals Vol. 56 (2003) Issue 3". Akademie Verlag. Permission for reproduction in KU Scholarworks kindly extended by Ms. Sylvia Hoffman (via e-mail 8 June 2009) Akademie Verlag GmbH Markgrafenstr. 12–14 10969 Berlin Tel: +49 30 - 42 20 06-20 Fax: +49 30 - 42 20 06-57 Verlagsleitung: Dr. Sabine Cofalla Geschäftsführung: Dr. Christine Autenrieth HR B 78 489 USt.Id.-Nr. DE 812917618Slovene is, along with Serbo-Croatian, an example of a pitch-accent language, one of only two remaining in the Slavic language family. Most of the literature on Slovene the data on the word-prosody features of this language are taken from the standardized system, a somewhat constructed entity based on the pitch-accent system of selected dialects. The present survey attempts to give a coherent structural description of the word-prosodic phenomena as they are manifested in the extraordinarily variegated Slovene dialects; these in turn are compared to the standardized system as well as, where relevant, to typological similar systems found in Croatian dialects. In addition, the key innovations that shaped the prosodic systems of Slovene dialects are discussed. Slovene emerges as a special set of types that share a tendency to concentrate prosodic distinctions -- pitch and quantity -- in the one stressed syllable of each accented word. Furthermore, these pitch and quantity distinctions in many dialects have become rephonologized as vowel-quantity distinctions. A few aberrant local dialets have gained new pitch distinctions or unstressed quantity distinctions.en-USWord prosodyPitch-accentVowel quantitySlovenian languageSlovene languageSlavic languagesArticleopenAccess