Stress placement in Stress-standard Serbo-Croatian (speakers from Bor, Niš, Zaječar)

In order to obtain a good overview of the stress standard SC situation, we assembled a database of the 3000 most frequent verbs in the Serbian variety of standard Serbo-Croatian. For this purpose we used the web corpus srWac (Ljubešić & Klubička 2014).

We asked four stress standard SC speakers (two from Niš, one from Bor and one from Zaječar) to pronounce one finite and one non-finite form of each verb. The speakers were asked to use the variety they would speak when talking to a stranger from their own hometown in a relatively formal setting (e.g. at a doctor’s or a government office). 

Explanation of columns:

INF: Citation form of the verb

Theme type: Theme vowel class for transparent verbs, example verb used in the paper for intrasparent ones

Transparency: "tra" for transparent verbs, "intra" for nontransparent verbs.

N1_form_NF: Non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by speaker 1 from Niš.
N1_form_NF_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by speaker 1 from Niš, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).
N1_form_F: Finite (present-tense-based) form produced by speaker 1 from Niš.
N1_form_F_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the the finite (present-tense-based) form produced by speaker 1 from Niš, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).

N2_form_NF: Non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by speaker 2 from Niš.
N2_form_NF_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by speaker 2 from Niš, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).
N2_form_F: Finite (present-tense-based) form produced by speaker 2 from Niš.
N2_form_F_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the the finite (present-tense-based) form produced by speaker 2 from Niš, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).

B_form_NF: Non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by the speaker from Bor.
B_form_NF_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by the speaker from Bor, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).
B_form_F: Finite (present-tense-based) form produced by the speaker from Bor.
B_form_F_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the the finite (present-tense-based) form produced by the speaker from Bor, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).

Z_form_NF: Non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by the speaker from Zaječar.
Z_form_NF_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the non-finite (infinitive-based) form produced by the speaker from Zaječar, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).
Z_form_F: Finite (present-tense-based) form produced by the speaker from Zaječar.
Z_form_F_Stress_from_INFL: Location of stress in the the finite (present-tense-based) form produced by the speaker from Zaječar, counting from the INFL (i.e. from the +).