About the Local Dialect of Dugi Rat

Sa？etak Dugi Rat is a newer settlement on the coast between Split and Omi？ created by ？akavian speakers that descended from the nearby mountain area, ？tokavian speakers from the heartland and also by the workers in the factory of calcium carbide and calcium cyanide who came from different areas. The base layer is ？akavian so the local dialect belongs to the South ？akavian dialect, similar to the local dialects between Podstrana and Omi？. There are some of important phonological features of the local dialect of Dugi Rat obtained from recent field work: Ikavian reflex of *ě (lik？r, cv？t, dv？) with a few Ekavian forms (s？no, z？nica); the reflex of OCS *？ > a after palatal consonants in several cases (jàzik, zaj？t) and *？ > e after other consonants (gréda, télac); the semivowel produces the vowel a (d？n); we find some examples of ？akavian vocalization of vowels in weak positions (vaz？st); the vocalic l and OCS *？ are consistently changed into the vowel u (t？st, gr？b); examples like rébac, r？st and kr？st with change ra > re, and gr？b with change ro > re; no phoneme ？ (？？p); the existence of ( , ); unstable position of phonemes x (m？j, bùva, ？p？ker) and f (vr？gat, vùre？t/fùre？t); the phoneme j and as reflexes of primary and secondary jotation of the dental d (m？ja, ml？ja, , ？？ ); the sequences *st’ and *zd’, as well as *sk, *zg gave ？？ ( ), zj/？j (and also ) ( , , gr？zje, ); the *？r sequence is preserved in few cases ( , ); examples such as dojt(i), dojdemo turned into d？ , d？ mo; partial change of ？ into j (p？？e/p？je); change of -m > -n in final position in grammatical endings and indeclinable words (lavùrān, s？dan); ？akavian modification of consonant clusters (k？？ka, kl？ko); the consonant l is preserved in the syllable-final position (s？l, k？sel, k？lca) but not in the singular of masculine nouns in past participle, there are examples such as zv？, kúpija, ùkrea; a five accent system (？er？va, tov？r, mej？？, ？ìvot, trá？it) with a pre-accentual lenght (？ālc？n I jd.), and postaccentual length (s m？nūn), but post-accentual lenght is not stable (g？lub); lengthening of vowels before sonorant consonants (kr？v, k？ń, s？nce)