The acoustic properties of the syllabic rhotic of Croatian
The acoustic properties of the syllabic rhotic of Croatian

Summary/Abstract: This article is concerned with the acoustic parameters of the syllabic r-sound of Croatian. The rhotic is regarded as a syllabic nucleus whenever it occupies the inter-consonantal position or one between a pause and a consonant, as in brdo ‘hill’ and rt ‘cape’, respectively. The results of the experiment conducted for the purposes of the paper indicate that syllabic rhotics are always pronounced with an epenthetic vowel that is considerably longer than the vocalic element found in consonant-rhotic-vowel sequences, thus the syllabic properties of the rhotic sound, which is typically pronounced as a tap, should be attributed to this vocalic constituent.

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