Editing Slovincian language (section)

===Vowel length, pitch, and stress===
Slovincian native vowels do not show any phonemic difference in length except in one set of words; however, loanwords show unpredictability as to whether the given vowel will be long or short, giving a series of long or short loan-phonemes, existing only in loanwords.{{sfn|Stokhof|1973|page=134}}

It was originally posited that Slovincian had [[Pitch-accent language|pitch]],{{sfn|Mikkola|1897|pp=6—7}}{{sfn|Lorentz|1903|pp=167—170}} but it was later shown to be entirely dependent on stress, and thus, non-phonemic.{{sfn|Rudnicki|1913|pp=118—121}}{{sfn|Stokhof|1973|page=134}} However, stress itself is phonemic and can appear on any syllable. There is a tendency to place the accent on the first syllable in polysyllabic stems, especially in noun inflections and, more rarely, in verbal inflections.{{sfn|Lorentz|1903|pp=171}}