K prízvukování ve zkratkách na základe dokladu z korpusu DIALOG z terénního výzkumu v Ceské televizi a z Databáze výslovnostního úzu cizích slov
Accent in Abbreviations based on a DIALOG Corpus from Field Research on Czech Television and from a Foreign Language Pronunciation Database

Summary/Abstract: The article first reviews works on stress placement in initialisms in Czech. It then proceeds to analyze 50 examples of pronunciation of the initialism ODS (Obcanská demokratická strana) as represented in the DIALOG corpus; 45 examples of the pronunciation of various initialisms obtained from Czech Television field research in, for instance ÖMV (Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung) and CTK (Ceská tisková kancelár); and 3000 examples of the pronunciation of initialisms from the Database of loanword pronunciation variants, e.g. EU (Evropská unie) and DVD (Digital versatile disc). _e analysis focusing primarily on the distribution of stress showed that spea-kers typically used two stresses — one on the first and one on the last syllable, or only one stress on the first syllable. _e la.er usage generally prevailed

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