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Syllabic consonants in historical Czech and how to identify them

ZIKOVÁ, Markéta, Martin BŘEZINA, Radek ČECH and Pavel KOSEK

Basic information

Original name

Syllabic consonants in historical Czech and how to identify them

Authors

ZIKOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin BŘEZINA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Radek ČECH (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Pavel KOSEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Slovko : 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics, Bratislava, 19. 10. 2023, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134219

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

syllabic consonants; historical Czech; sonority parser; syllable markedness; Sonority Sequencing Principle

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/2/2024 09:09, Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil

Abstract

V originále

The paper provides fine-grained evidence concerning the development of syllabic consonants /r l/ in Czech, that is only sketched in the existing literature. The evidence is based on an automatic parser that identifies potential syllable-projecting segments according to sonority. The parser was applied to six verse texts from the 14th–16th centuries, which show a strong tendency towards octosyllabicity. The data provided by the parser newly reveal that the shift from non-syllabic to syllabic /r l/ is position-dependent: word-medial non-syllabic strings C(r/l)C change more rapidly than non-syllabic word-final ones C(r/l)#. This finding is in line with a cross linguistic observation that non syllabic C(r/l)C are marked, hence they are regularly syllabified prior to less marked C(r/l)#.

Links

GA23-04719S, research and development project
Name: Vývoj slabičných sonor v češtině
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Development of Syllabic Sonorants in Czech