LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Akustiniai požymiai; Antrinis distinktyvinis kirtis; Pašušvio šnekta; Pašušvuio šnekta; Vakarų aukštaičių patarmė; Vakarų aukštaičių šiauliškių tarmė; Šalutinis distinktyvinis kirtis; Acoustic features; Distinctive secondary stress; Lithuanian; Nothern West-Aukštaitian dialect of Lithuania; Pašušvys subdialect; Secondary distinctive stress; West-Aukštaitian dialect.
ENThe paper presents the results of an instrumental and auditory experiment which show the existence of the distinctive secondary stress in forms of the type acc. pl. in Pašušvys subdialect (subdialcct belongs to the nothern West-Aukštaitian dialect of Lithuania). The word-final short vowels in the endings which could basically possess the main stress and those of never stressed short word-final vowels are differentiated by the following prosodic features: average pitch level and relative duration. These differences are statistically reliable. [From the publication]