N+N Borrowings from English: A New Stress Pattern in Czech?

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
N+N Borrowings from English: A New Stress Pattern in Czech?
Original language description
In this paper, I investigate English N+N and Adj+N borrowings in Czech (e.g. body building and Bloody Mary). N+N Anglicisms provoke prosodic tension, as native Czech prosody does not, under normal conditions, allow the destressing of the last word in a noun phrase. An analysis of recorded N+N and Adj+N borrowings shows that Czech speakers adopt the foreign stress pattern without difficulty, treating most N+N phrases as compounds. This pattern also spills over to Adj+N phrases. Spelling reflects pronunciation in the sense that hyphenated or single-word spellings are more common in Czech than in English and guarantee a better matching between spelling and pronunciation. Lexical frequency does not seem to have an influence on stressing, but phrase length is correlated with stress probability. The imported prosodic pattern seems to have gained an important position in Czech loanword phonology, despite quite considerable inter-speaker variability in its usage.
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-06012S" target="_blank" >GA16-06012S: Phonology of Czech Anglicisms</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody
ISBN
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ISSN
2333-2042
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Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
90-93
Publisher name
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
Place of publication
Poznań
Event location
Poznań
Event date
Jun 13, 2018
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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