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Vliv jazykových faktorů na užívání protetického v- v pražské mluvě

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Chromý J.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

2015

vol. 76

issue 1

21-39

The aim of this paper is to analyse the intralinguistic factors which influence the usage of prothetic v- in the Prague vernacular. The analysis is based on linguistic interviews (each approximately 1 hour long) with 18 native Prague vernacular speakers between 20 and 30 years old. The material comprises a total of 3359 instances of the variable. Based on a binomial mixed model, it is concluded that the usage of v- is best explained by these predictors: gender, token length (counted in phonemes), prefixation, word class, the position of the variable (at the beginning vs. inside the word) and borrowedness of the word. On the other hand, phonological variables did not show any effect. A comparison of these data with the data from a study by Pavel Jančák (1974) suggests that the usage of v- in the Prague vernacular is on the slow decline.

Protetické v- mezi statistikou a rétorikou : K článku Vliv jazykových faktorů na užívání protetického v- v pražské mluvě

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Homoláč J., Mrázková K., Veroňková J.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

2016

vol. 77

issue 2

143-154

This text is a critical response to Jan Chromý’s article “The influence of intralinguistic factors on the usage of prothetic v- in the Prague vernacular” (Slovo a slovesnost 76, 2015:21–38). Using methods from variationist sociolinguistics, Chromý made a significant contribution to the existing understanding of the intralinguistic factors influencing the usage of prothetic v-. In addition, he drew some conclusions about the impact of gender on the variable (v) and about linguistic change, asserting that the variant /v/ in the Prague vernacular is in decline. However, neither claim is justified by the findings presented in the article. The analyzed sample of speakers is too small to allow for generalizations regarding the correlation between gender and the use of the variable (v); moreover, Chromý does not take into consideration the high variability of prothetic v- use among individual female speakers. With regard to the supposed decline of prothetic v-, this conclusion is based on Chromý’s comparison between his own sample and Jančák’s research from the 1970s, but these samples are incomparable because the sociodemographic profiles of their informants differ. Chromý justifies this comparison according to the apparent time hypothesis, but, as we argue, the apparent time hypothesis cannot be successfully applied here.

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Vliv jazykových faktorů na užívání protetického v- v pražské mluvě

Protetické v- mezi statistikou a rétorikou : K článku Vliv jazykových faktorů na užívání protetického v- v pražské mluvě