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Not all dialects exhibit the same accentual patterns as Standard Carnian. Particularly northern dialects of Carinthia and Upper Carniola retain Old Carnian stem-initial stress. Small transitional dialects on the borderlands with Slovenia and Croatia tend to have a free and mobile accent. | Not all dialects exhibit the same accentual patterns as Standard Carnian. Particularly northern dialects of Carinthia and Upper Carniola retain Old Carnian stem-initial stress. Small transitional dialects on the borderlands with Slovenia and Croatia tend to have a free and mobile accent. | ||
=== Phonotactics === | |||
In contrast to the majority of Slavic languages, Carnian prohibits many consonant clusters. It permits up to three consonants in the syllable onset; however, in most words only two consonants are found. The most common allowed clusters begin with a sonorant or fricative, or consist of an obstruent followed by a sonorant. | |||
In the coda, up to two consonants are allowed, although word-final stops preceded by another obstruent (i.e., a fricative) tend to be unreleased or omitted entirely (e.g., ''cost'' 'bone' is realized as [kɒ̂s] or [kɒ̂st̚]). | |||
Word-internal fricatives beginning an onset cluster resyllabify to the coda of the preceding syllable. If the preceding syllable ends with a vowel, it becomes closed and thus the vowel is short: ''vezda'' 'star' becomes [ʋɛ̂z.dɐ] instead of [ʋɛ̂ː.zdɐ]. All medial geminates are syllabified as [C.C], with the first element becoming part of the coda of the preceding syllable. | |||
== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||