Schleifton (Lithuanian)

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In the Lithuanian language , grinding tone (tvirtagalė, kylančioji or tęstinė priegaidė) denotes one of the two tone accents for long vowels and diphthongs . The sound that carries it is emphasized over the entire length. Depending on the region, the emphasis can be stronger at the beginning or at the end of the sound or it can remain completely even.

The tone accents usually remain unmarked in the script. In reference works, the grinding clay is marked with a tilde ˜ (called "circumflex" in literal language), which is on the second component of diphthongs.

In high-level language, the difference between the two tone accents in single vowels is barely audible and also causes problems for the Lithuanians themselves. In the case of diphthongs, on the other hand, the grinding tone is characterized by the weakening or equalization of the vowels involved; often the second sound is lengthened (sometimes both).

The second accent in the high-level Lithuanian language is the shock tone (tvirtapradė, krintančioji or staiginė priegaidė) .

literature

  • Asta Adelė Rėbždaitė (editor): Lietuvių kalbos žinynas. Šviesa, Kaunas 2003. ISBN 5-430-03745-1
  • Rima Bacevičiūtė et al. (Red.): Lietuvių kalbos tarmių chrestomatija. Lietuvių kalbos institutas, Vilnius 2004. ISBN 9986-668-56-5
  • Grzegorz Dogil: The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Lithuanian, Polish and German and Spanish. In: Harry van der Hulst (Ed.): Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages ​​of Europe. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-015750-0 , pp. 273-310 ( Empirical Approaches to Language Typology. 20-4).