Netypické přízvukování v češtině

• Authors: Radek Skarnitzl

Title variants

EN

Atypical stress distribution in Czech

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Lexical stress has received a lot of attention in Czech, but some questions remain unresolved. This paper examines two such aspects related to untypical stressing in Czech. The first concerns the length of anacruses (most sources admit the possibility of only one unstressed syllable at the beginning of a prosodic phrase). The second aspect is monosyllabic stress groups, and specifically situations which involve stress clash. Both anacruses and stress clash contexts are investigated in a corpus of two communicatively valid genres, newsreading and audiobooks (with 16 speakers for each genre), and related to the information structure of the utterances. The analysis revealed that more than one quarter of anacruses contain two (and rarely even three) syllables; typically such longer anacruses feature words which are contextually predictable and/or are semantically bleached. As for monosyllabic stress groups, more than two thirds have been surprisingly found to be formed by synsemantic rather than autosemantic words; these items thus reveal a prosodic-semantic conflict, with prosodic prominence occurring in informationally weak contexts.

Keywords

CS

slovní přízvuk; mluvní takt; anakruze; střet přízvuků; čeština

EN

lexical stress; stress group; anacrusis; stress clash; Czech

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91-107
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Radek Skarnitzl

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic