A comparison of the accent system in Croatian and Slovenian

Ovaj diplomski rad obrađuje temu naglasnog sustava dvaju susjednih jezika, slovenskog i hrvatskog, točnije, uspoređuje mjesto naglaska posuđenica u govoru Zagreba i Ljubljane. Slovenski i hrvatski srodni su jezici koji spadaju u skupinu južnoslavenskih jezika, stoga se može reći da imaju i neke zajedničke osobine. Glavna razlika u naglasnim sustavima hrvatskoga i slovenskoga jezika jest u tome što hrvatski ima jedan standardni naglasni sustav koji je visinski naglasni sustav, dok slovenski propisuje dva naglasna sustava kao standardna – visinski i dinamički naglasni sustav. Za istraživanje u ovom radu koristio se osmišljeni tekst na hrvatskom i slovenskom koji su ispitanici pročitali. Tekst je čitalo deset ispitanika, pet Zagrepčana i pet Ljubljančana. Rezultati su potvrdili pretpostavku da se mjesto naglaska kod zagrebačkih ispitanika u većem broju posuđenica razlikuje od standardnog naglaska, nego što je to slučaj kod ljubljanskih ispitanika. Kod svih slovenskih ispitanika nije bilo razlike u izgovorenom mjestu naglaska i kodificirane norme mjesta naglaska.This thesis deals with the topic of lexical stress or the accent system of two neighboring languages, Slovene and Croatian. More precisely, it compares the placement of the accent in loanwords in the Ljubljana and Zagreb dialect. Slovene and Croatian are related languages that belong to the family of South Slavic languages, so it can be said that they share certain features. With regards to the accent system, the main difference between these two languages is that Croatian has a single standard accent system that belongs to the group of pitch accent languages, while Slovene has two official accent systems – pitch accent and dynamic accent. For the research in this thesis, a designed text in Croatian and Slovene was used, which the participants had to read. The research, conducted on a total of ten participants, five speakers od Ljubljana dialect and five speakers od Zagreb dialect, confirmed the hypothesis that the participants from Zagreb placed the accent differently from the standard accent in more loanwords than participants from Ljubljana did. None of the Slovenian participants exhibited a difference in their accent placement compared to the codified accent norms