Struktura fonostatystyczno-fonotaktyczna wybranych polskich słownych ciągów trudnych (lingwołamek)
The phonostatistic and phonotactic structure of selected Polish difficult word sequences (tongue twisters)

Summary/Abstract: The term difficult word sequences, or tongue twisters, refers to sentences created in a givenlanguage to highlight articulation problems existing therein. Such sentences play animportant role in speech therapy and teaching languages; they function in children’sliterature and can be used in exercises improving articulation. The consciously selectedstructure of this type of linguistic units results in the accumulation of specific phonotacticand phonostatistic phenomena. These are, for example: the occurrence of lexical unitswith consonant clusters more often than in everyday speech, the appearance of syllableswith similar consonants, the creation of unnaturally long words, etc. Deliberate emphasison phonotactic difficulties, to a certain extent, makes tongue twisters differ in termsof phonological structure from other varieties of Polish that have been studied so far.Compared to other types of texts, tongue twisters contain an exceptionally high numberof consonants.

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