Přízvučné a nepřízvučné ten při odkazování k vedlejším přívlastkovým větám

• Authors: Magdalena Zíková , Jan Volín

Title variants

EN

The stressed and unstressed pronoun ten in referring to relative clauses

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the question of stress-based prominence assigned to the Czech demonstrative pronoun ‘ten’ (meaning ‘this’ or ‘that’ or even ‘the’) in certain contexts. While the default production of the pronoun is unstressed, there are some semantically defined situations in which is stressed form of the pronoun seems more appropriate. The analysis of such situations and a speech production experiment were carried out to form and possibly support hypotheses about the use of the stressed form. The results suggest that natives speakers of Czech posses the sensitivity to differentiate between ‘classifying’ and ‘discerning’ contexts and manifest this relatively consistently in their speech by assigning prosodic salience to the demonstrative pronoun ‘ten’ and by deaccenting the first syllable of the following noun.

Keywords

CS

demonstrativa; kontext (lingvistika); přízvuk; reference (lingvistika)

EN

demonstratives (grammar); context (linguistics); reference (linguistics); stress

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-44
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Magdalena Zíková

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Jan Volín

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic