Tsitaatsõna hääldusest eesti keeles ja selle esitusest sõnastikes
Estonian pronunciation of unadapted foreign words and expressions (linguistic foreignisms) and its presentation in dictionaries

Summary/Abstract: The study was motivated by some problems encountered in the process of editing the 8th edition of the Estonian dictionary of foreign words (Võõrsõnade leksikon). Formerly, both this dictionary and various monolingual Estonian dictionaries presented their pronunciation inconsistently. The present study aims to find out whether and to what extent the users follow the pronunciation presented in dictionaries, in particular, how close is the pronunciation of university-educated native speakers of Estonian to the original pronunciation of the foreignism in the source language? The analytical part is based on 63 entries (52 of which are unadapted foreign words and expressions) drawn from the 7th edition of the Estonian dictionary of foreign words (VL 2006), the explanatory dictionary of standard Estonian (EKSS), the dictionary of standard Estonian ÕS 2006 (ÕS 2006), and the manuscript of the 8th edition of the Estonian dictionary of foreign words (VL). The pronunciation test contained 12 foreignisms of Latin, 18 of English, and 13 of French origin.

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