Structure of Syllables in Czech

BIČAN, Aleš. Structure of Syllables in Czech. In Formalization of Grammar in Slavic Languages (eds. Peter Kosta - Lilia Schürcks). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011, p. 13-28. Potsdam Linguistic Investigations. ISBN 978-3-631-61869-1.

Basic information

Original name

Structure of Syllables in Czech

Authors

BIČAN, Aleš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Frankfurt am Main, Formalization of Grammar in Slavic Languages (eds. Peter Kosta - Lilia Schürcks), p. 13-28, 16 pp. Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, 2011

Publisher

Peter Lang

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/11:00052597

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-631-61869-1

Keywords in English

syllable; Czech; functionalism; combinations; consonants; phonotactics; template

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International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

The chapter outlines the phonotactic structure of the syllable in Standard Czech by adopting the notion "distributional unit" which functions a syllable template. It consists of five pre-nuclear positions, one nuclear position and four post-nuclear positions. Every position may be occupied by a phoneme or, if the phoneme can be omitted, the position may be empty. The distributional unit functions as a formal device for predicting well-formed syllable-initial and syllable-final consonantal combinations in Czech.