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The document discusses segmental and suprasegmental differences between Croatian and English pronunciation. It covers differences in consonants and vowels, as well as rhythm, vowel reduction, and tonal aspects. Croatian has fewer vowels than English and different stress patterns. Croatian speakers may pronounce some English sounds differently or reduce vowels in a non-native way.

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Croglish

The document discusses segmental and suprasegmental differences between Croatian and English pronunciation. It covers differences in consonants and vowels, as well as rhythm, vowel reduction, and tonal aspects. Croatian has fewer vowels than English and different stress patterns. Croatian speakers may pronounce some English sounds differently or reduce vowels in a non-native way.

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Croatia - Croglish

Table of contents

01 02
Segmental differences:
Consonants Vowels

03 04 05
Suprasegmental differences:
Rhythm Vowel reduction Tonal aspects
01
Segmental differences: Consonants
Differences in the phonemic inventories:
• Pronunciation of those English sounds which Croatian
does not use distinctively (/Ɵ/ /ð/ and /w/ usually
pronounced as /t/ /d/ and /v/)
• Croatian palatals: the lateral /ʎ/ and the nasal /ɲ/ (often
misinterpreted as /l+j/ in “Value” and /n+j/ in “News”)
Phonetic differences:
• Different realisations of the English phoneme /v/ as in
“Very”
• /r/ in Croglish tends to be manifested by a flap or a trill
sound
• The place of articulation of /t/ in Croatian speakers is dental
rather than alveolar
• Croglish speakers fail to realize the English “dark” /l/ and
maintain the clearness of the /l/ in all positions
• The phonetic quality of the Croatian affricates/English
consonants /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ with the Croatian affricates being
more complex (“hard” and “soft”)
• Croatian velar place of articulation of the consonant /h/, as
in "heavy“ instead of the target glottal consonant /h/ in
English
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Rd_sZUYLc
02
Segmental differences: Vowels
• The difference in the vocalic systems: English has two
subsystems (monophthongs and diphthongs) while Croatian
does not have diphthongs in the real sense of the word
• Striking differences in the systems of monophthongs
• English: 12 vowels /i:, ɪ, e, æ, ɜ:, ǝ, ʌ, ɑ:, ɒ, ɔ:, ʊ, and u:/
• Croatian: 5 vowels (a e i o u)
• Even in cases where phonetic symbols suggest similar
vowel types, the individual formant values for any pair of
vowels are notably different
• Vocalic length in Croatian functions as a phonological
parameter (“Pas”)
03
Suprasegmental differences: Rhythm
• English is an extreme case of stress-based rhythm while
Croatian rhythm is syllable based
  Syllable-based rhythm (Croatian) Stress-based rhythm (English)

1 Proportional reduction of all syllables with the Greater reduction of unstressed syllables
increase of inter-stress material with the increase of inter-stress material
 

2 Smaller quantitative differences among Greater quantitative differences among


unstressed syllables unstressed syllables

3 Smaller extent of final lengthening Greater extent of final lengthening


 

4 Preference for regressive compression of Preference of anticipatory compression of


stressed vowels in a stress group unstressed vowels in a stressed group

5 Increase of speech rate achieved at the Increase of speech rate achieved at the
expense of consonants expense of vowels
04
Suprasegmental differences: Vowel
reduction
• Unstressed vowels are pronounced less clearly
• The process of qualitative reduction of unstressed vowels,
alongside other qualities of stress-based rhythm, determines
the prosodic nature of English
• Croglish speakers and other non-native speakers do not
apply the rule of vowel reduction, therefore sounding
foreign
05
Tonal aspects of Croglish
• Croatian and English belong to two totally different types
of languages
• Croatian uses tones associated with individual moras (a unit
of syllable weight by which stress or timing of utterance is
determined) to give words their lexical identity
• English uses tonal patterns exclusively for intonation
purposes
• Different Croatian dialects have prosodic patterns
interacting with intonational patterns in different ways
• Croats speaking English rarely use metric or emphatic
lengthening characteristics of English because in Croatian
vocalic length gives lexical identity to words
Conclusion
● striking phonological and phonetic
differences between Croatian and
English
● In speech these differences co-occur
and interact making Croglish a
challenging foreign accent phenomena
● Pointing to them can lead to insights
into the nature of both languages
Bibliographical references

● Josipović- Smojver, V. (2010). Foreign Accent and


Levels of Analysis: Interference between English and
Croatian. In Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa (ed.), Issues in
Accents of English 2: Variability and Norm. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 23-35.
● Johnson, K., & Martin, J. (2000). Acoustic vowel
reduction in creek: Effects of distinctive length and
position in the word. Phonetica, 58(1-2), 81–102.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000028489

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