Polish Place-Names and Word-Final Consonant Groups: More Affricates and Diphthongs in Polish?

• Authors: Krzysztof Jaskuła
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, an attempt is made at classifying word-final clusters occurring in Polish place-names from the viewpoint of syllabic structure within a strict CVCV model of Government Phonology. It is proposed here that the phonemic analysis of sounds should be truly abandoned. As a result, we can discover that segments behave according to the unchangeable syllabic structure: more than one segment can be attached to one skeletal position, the string of sounds in a word being preserved and the governing relations being contracted in line with the theoretical assumptions. Consequently, what we have in Polish is occasional diphthongs, affricates and complex segments which need not be recognized as distinctive phonemically.

Keywords

EN

Syllabification; place-name; affricate; diphthong; phoneme

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 391-406

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2011-03-30

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Jaskuła

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0020-8