30th January 2004, 1:11 PM
Weltall Wrote:English has the same thing. Look at word 'read'. The only way to tell if it's present tense or past is to see in what context it's used in a sentence. In another language that word would probably have a visual accent. Contract is a multi-syllabic example. It has different meanings based on what syllable is stressed.
I didn't mean it that way. In croatian accents are used to change the pronunciation of a letter. For instance, C is pronounced like "tse", Ć is pronounced like a soft "che", and Č is pronounced like a hard "che".