On the pronunciation of Dutch-language surnames from the field of sport by Polish native speakers – theoretical principles and exemplary analyses Cover Image

Zur Aussprache niederländischsprachiger Familiennamen aus dem Bereich des Sports durch polnische Muttersprachler – theoretische Grundlagen und exemplarische Analysen
On the pronunciation of Dutch-language surnames from the field of sport by Polish native speakers – theoretical principles and exemplary analyses

Author(s): Artur Tworek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: pronunciation of foreign surnames; Dutch phonetics; Polish phonetics; expansion of phonetic system.

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the following article is to analyze the pronunciation of Dutch surnames by Polish native speakers. The research material consists of journalistic statements from the communicative-semantic area of sport that are present in public audiovisual mass media. The selected material guarantees the high frequency of its production and the associated perception within the real acts of communication. In particular, the examination includes Dutch sounds which either do not exist in Polish or occur in a different graphical-distributional context. The exemplary research results (the mode of phonetic integration of foreign speech sounds) represent mechanisms that are interpreted in relation to typical communication models. The study also analyzes the potential placement of such phonetic forms in the target language, i.e. Polish.

  • Issue Year: 32/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 179-193
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Dutch