Publication details
K (ne)pohyblivosti přízvuku (typologická poznámka)
| Title in English | On (un)mobility of Accent |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Čeština - univerzália a specifika |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Elektronická verze článku |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | accent; mobility; unmobility; Czech |
| Description | The article draws attention to the function of accent as a phonological segment (the paper uses Louis Hjelmslev's terminology), based on a comparison of two typologically related languages: Vedic Old Indo-Aryan and Czech. Is Czech accent a paradigmatic member or is it just a variant of another member? The first section of article is a short sketch of Vedic system of accent. Vedic accent is movable and we suppose that only the movable accent has a phonological function. Czech accent segment is not movable; therefore we presume it is just a variant of another phonological segment. This precondition is based on the word-distinction function of Czech accent which leads us to the conclusion that this segment is just a variant of diereme. |
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