Distribution and combinations of Czech consonants

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BIČAN Aleš

Rok publikování 2011
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Zeitschrift für Slawistik
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

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Obor Jazykověda
Klíčová slova phonotactics; functionalism; distributional unit; consonant; positions
Popis This paper outlines distributional and combinational potentials of consonants in Present Standard Czech. We adopt a notion distributional unit introduced by Jan W. F. Mulder. It is defined as a bundle of positions such that in every such position a phoneme can stand and commute with other phonemes or with 0 (be empty). Nine positions are established for Czech: five pre-nuclear, one nuclear and three post-nuclear. The sum of these positions is an underlying grid upon which the structure of all the phonotagms (roughly: syllables) in Czech can be effectively mapped and thus exhaustively described. This paper focuses in particular on the distribution of Czech consonants and includes tables containing 413 pre-nuclear (= syllable-initial) and 82 post-nuclear (= syllable-final) consonantal combinations in Czech. Such a comprehensive list has not, to the best of our knowledge, been published elsewhere.

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