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Maminkovština/dětský jazyk v češtině a ve francouzštině

Title in English Caretaker Speach in Czech and in French
Authors

SCHEJBALOVÁ Zdeňka

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Přednášky a besedy ze XLV. běhu LŠSS
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords caretaker speech; Czech; French; interjection; reduplication; diminutive; language registers; comparison
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Description The paper study types of creative tools for a Word formative means in the caretaker speech in the Czech and in the French languages. A lot of expressions are specific for the caretaker speech. An abundant use of diminutives with secondary diminutive suffixes is typical, what is giving the words highly emotional feature. Contemporary colloquial Czech language is characterized by an excessive use of diminutives. The French caretaker speech is, again, mainly based on the clipping, reduction of neutral words (apocope, aphaeresis), and their reduplication or on the reduplication of the first word’s syllable. The interjections are used, as well as in the Czech. The contemporary colloquial French language uses the same Word formative means like the caretaker speech and it manifests the use of nicknames and the adjective petit.

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