How Should These Names Be Pronounced? Specific Phonetic Features of Proper Names in Czech

0472163 - ÚJČ 2017 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Štěpánová, Veronika
How Should These Names Be Pronounced? Specific Phonetic Features of Proper Names in Czech.
Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2016 - (Hough, C.; Izdebska, D.), s. 179-187. ISBN 978-0-85261-947-6.
[International Congress of Onomastic Sciences /25./. Glasgow (GB), 25.08.2014-29.08.2014]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA13-00372S
Institutional support: RVO:68378092
Keywords : pronunciation * Czech * Slovak * contrastive phonetics
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics
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The paper analyses proper names in contemporary Czech that are interesting with regard to their pronunciation. The analysed material (several hundreds of proper names) is based on a database of inquiries addressed to the Language Consulting Centre of the Institute of the Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and on a special database of proper names which occur in contemporary media discourse and whose pronunciation is variable. The analysis focuses on the most prominent questions relating to pronunciation problems. Such questions focus, for example, on which languages the problematic proper names originate in, why speakers hesitate about the pronunciation of a given form and what categories of proper names (anthroponyms, toponyms, etc.) occur in the data. In addition, some specific phonetic features of proper names are compared to phonetic features of common nouns.
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