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Pavle Ivić

Pavle Ivić is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pavle Ivić rather than just read about it. In short: Pavle Ivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ивић, pronounced [pâːʋle ǐːʋitɕ]; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian dialectologist and phonologist of the South Slavic languages. Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative.

Pavle Ivić — main illustration
Pavle Ivić — illustration

Key takeaways

  • Pavle Ivić belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Pavle Ivić to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Pavle Ivić from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Pavle Ivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ивић, pronounced [pâːʋle ǐːʋitɕ]; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian dialectologist and phonologist of the South Slavic languages.

Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are:

Die serbokroatischen Dialekte, ihre Struktur und Entwicklung, Gravenhage, Mouton, 1958. Srpski narod i njegov jezik. Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga, 1971. English edition: Ivić, Pavle (2024). The Serbian people and their language (PDF). Novi Sad: Matica Srpska. Archived from the original on 2025-12-29. Retrieved 2025-12-29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the Slavic Linguistic Atlas project. He was an authority on the standardization of the Serbian language. He frequently lectured in the United States and other countries, and was an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America. A member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, he took part in the polemics accompanying the breakdown of SFR Yugoslavia. He was as signatory of the 1986 Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was married to Milka Ivić (1923–2011), a Slavic syntactician and professor.

External links 'History of Serb Culture' Online Book

Illustrations

Pavle Ivić illustration

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pavle Ivić

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pavle Ivić claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pavle Ivić before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pavle Ivić ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pavle Ivić

In research
Pavle Ivić appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Pavle Ivić in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Pavle Ivić is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1924 births, 1999 deaths, 20th-century linguists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Pavle Ivić outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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How to study Pavle Ivić in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Pavle Ivić means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Pavle Ivić out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pavle Ivić in simple terms?

Pavle Ivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ивић, pronounced [pâːʋle ǐːʋitɕ]; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian dialectologist and phonologist of the South Slavic languages. Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative.

Why does Pavle Ivić matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pavle Ivić?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pavle Ivić.

Tags

  • 1924 births
  • 1999 deaths
  • 20th-century linguists
  • Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia
  • Linguists from Serbia
  • Linguists of Slavic languages
  • Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Phonologists
  • Serbian scientists
  • Writers from Belgrade

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