Possible and potential syllables in Czech

Authors

BIČAN Aleš

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Beiträge der Europäischen Slavistischen Linguistik (POLYSLAV). Band 16.
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords phonotactics; Czech; syllable
Description The paper deals with the question of what a possible and potentially possible syllable is in Czech. Possible syllables are such phoneme combinations that are directly attested, and potentially possible syllables are unattested phoneme combinations that are not in contraction with any structural rule valid for directly attested combinations. The paper describes the structure of attested syllables on the so-called distributional unit which can be used for calculating potentially possible syllables. The procedure and its output are presented with examples.

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