A review of prosodic isoglosses in the Kajkavian dialect group

Osvrćem se na rani razvoj kajkavske prozodije kako sam ga prikazao ranije (1988, 1996) i s obzirom na noviju literaturu o razvoju hrvatske i slavenske akcentuacije, posebno na kronologiju pojava. Neke su od njih vrlo stare: a) unakrsna metatonija neoakuta i cirkumfleksa, b) ograničenje (stabilizacija) mjesta naglaska, c) sigurno i unakrsni pomak (regresivni i progresivni) kratkoga naglaska. Ograničenje mjesta naglaska treba staviti u vrijeme prije dolaska Mađara i njihova prekidanja slavenskoga kontinuuma u Panoniji.In this paper I describe the early development of Kajkavian prosody as I have presented it in earlier works (1988, 1996) and with regard to recent literature about the development of Croatian and Slavic accentuation, especially on the chronology of innovations. Some innovations are very old: (a) cross-metatony of the neoacute and circumflex, (b) limitation (stabilization) of the position of stress (“Zweisilbengetz”), (c) probably also cross-shifting (regressive and progressive) of the short accent. The former two innovations occurred at the same time as cross- -metatony in part of the Lithuanian language, the shortening of the circumflex in Czech, and its progressive metataxis in Slovenian and some western dialects of Croatian. Limitation of the position of stress should be placed in the time before the arrival of the Magyars and their breaking of the Slavic continuum in Pannonia, i.e, between the Croatian and Slovak languages