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Kvantitativní fonotaktická analýza názvů českých obcí a jejich částí

Title in English A quantitative phonotactic analysis of the names of Czech municipalities and their parts
Authors

BIČAN Aleš

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Slovo a slovesnost
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords oikonym; municipality; phonology; statistics; Czech phonotactics; phonological corpus
Description The paper presents a quantitative phonotactic analysis of a corpus of 15,051 Czech oikonyms. The results are confronted with the appellative vocabulary represented by a corpus of 45,991 words from the dictionary Slovník spisovné češtiny. Oikonyms contain phoneme combinations not attested elsewhere, in particular consonantal combinations all of which are discussed in detail. Also, an analysis of the overall structure of the oikonyms and appellatives is offered showing that Czech prefers words beginning with a single consonant, ending in a vowel and containing one medial two-consonant combination.

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