Bump tone (Lithuanian)

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In the Lithuanian language , shock tone (tvirtapradė, krintančioji or staiginė priegaidė) is one of the two tone accents for long vowels and diphthongs . The sound that carries it is emphasized only at the beginning; then the volume drops quickly.

The tone accents usually remain unmarked in the script. In reference works, the shock tone is marked with an acute ´ , which is on the first component of diphthongs. (Exceptions to this rule are described in the article on the Lithuanian alphabet in the section Tones .)

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 impact sound is characterized by the elongation and clear pronunciation of the first component. In the Schemaitic dialects, an abrupt vowel or diphthong is also interrupted or at least glottalized by a larynx closure sound .

The second accent in the high-level Lithuanian language is the grinding tone (tvirtagalė, kylančioji or tęstinė 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).