Playing Taboo - part 2
Added by kmuzek
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This is a recording of four people playing the board game Taboo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_(game)). It was made for a project in our phonology class, where the class was split into groups, depending on their native dialect of the croatian language. I will briefly explain this here. Croatian is an Indo-European language, belonging to the Balto-Slavic and Slavic subgroups. Slavic languages are then separated into the West, East, and South Slavic subgroups. Opinions vary on this topic, but unlike the East and West, the South Slavic subgroup, to which Croatian belongs, cannot be traced to a common Proto-South Slavic. They are mostly a geographical grouping, constituting a dialect continuum. Within that dialectal continuum, the Croatian language can be separated into 3 larger dialect groups: The Kajkavian, Shtokavian, and Chakavian dialects (this distinction is made on the basis of the interrogative „what?“- „kaj?“, „shto?, „cha?“, respectively). To end this rather long but necessary digression and get back to the aforementioned project, all of the four of us in our group are speakers of the Kajkavian dialect, and speaking a variant spoken in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb. We can all be considered speakers of the same sociolect, owing to the fact that we are of a similar age (20-26), and similar social status (university students). Some of the characteristics of this sociolect are: usage of only the falling tone (standard Croatian differentiates between rising and falling tone), combining the postalveolar ch (/t͡ʃ/), and the palatal ch (/t͡ɕ/) into the postalveolar, shortening the infinitive suffix –ti to –t, syncope of certain consonants in the middle of words, contraction of words, the usage of certain slang and swear words. On the idiolect level, speakers can be told apart through their respective catchphrases, „like“, „oh god“... More about croatian dialectology can be found in: Z. Jelaska, Accent-Systems in Croatian Dialects, Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent; A. Šojat et al, Zagrebački kaj: govor grada i prigradskih naselja; J. Granić, Jezik i identiteti: zbornik; V. Zečević, Hrvatski dijalekti u kontaktu; G. Varošanec- Škarić and Đ. Škavić, Neutralizacija kratkouzlaznoga i kratkosilaznoga naglaska u suvremenom hrvatskom prihvaćenom izgovoru. We apologize for some technical difficulties!
