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Average or unique – Polish place-names and word-initial consonant groups

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 21. März 2023

Abstract

Place-names occupy a special area in the vocabulary of the Polish language. Their shape occasionally differs to a greater or lesser extent from that of words which constitute the bulk of the lexicon. They have been investigated in terms of semantics and etymology by various linguists, but their phonological analysis is only occasionally provided. In this paper, word-initial consonant combinations found in Polish place-names are presented and analysed from the viewpoint of Government Phonology in its most recent version called Complexity Scales and Licensing. The analysis, covering bi-consonantal, tri-consonantal and tetra-consonantal clusters, will be conducted with a view to finding out how the model shows the possible governing relationships between consonants. Of specific interest is the question of whether these toponyms are totally peculiar or just normal in terms of the phonotactics of the Polish language.


Corresponding author: Krzysztof Jaskuła, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, E-mail:

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Received: 2022-05-17
Accepted: 2022-11-12
Published Online: 2023-03-21
Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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