Flowing With the Flow: Euphony of Hydronyms From Quantitative and Sociological Perspectives

The paper focuses on the euphonic character of hydronyms, which is researched from two perspectives. The corpus comprises two sets of Czech river, pond, and spring names taken from the Ostravice river basin (the Moravian-Silesian Region), and the Morava river basin (the Zlín Region, the Olomouc Regi...

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Main Authors: Místecký, Michal, Kovářová, Kristýna
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Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 2025
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description The paper focuses on the euphonic character of hydronyms, which is researched from two perspectives. The corpus comprises two sets of Czech river, pond, and spring names taken from the Ostravice river basin (the Moravian-Silesian Region), and the Morava river basin (the Zlín Region, the Olomouc Region, the South-Moravian Region), respectively. As to the methods, first, euphony values of the water names are computed on the grounds of a formula which is used in analysing poetry. Second, a questionnaire survey was carried out, in which secondary-school and university students were asked to order selected hydronyms according to their own perceptions of euphoniousness. The results of both investigations are compared, and several conclusions are drawn from their interplay.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1598182025-05-19T09:44:02Z Flowing With the Flow: Euphony of Hydronyms From Quantitative and Sociological Perspectives Místecký, Michal Kovářová, Kristýna hydronyms euphony onomastics quantitative linguistics sociolinguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics The paper focuses on the euphonic character of hydronyms, which is researched from two perspectives. The corpus comprises two sets of Czech river, pond, and spring names taken from the Ostravice river basin (the Moravian-Silesian Region), and the Morava river basin (the Zlín Region, the Olomouc Region, the South-Moravian Region), respectively. As to the methods, first, euphony values of the water names are computed on the grounds of a formula which is used in analysing poetry. Second, a questionnaire survey was carried out, in which secondary-school and university students were asked to order selected hydronyms according to their own perceptions of euphoniousness. The results of both investigations are compared, and several conclusions are drawn from their interplay. Published 2025-05-19T09:44:00Z 2025-05-19T09:44:00Z 2023-12-21 chapter 9788323375012 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159818 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/onomastics-in-interaction-with-other-branches-of-science-volume-1#otwarty-dostep https://wuj.pl/flowing-with-the-flow-euphony-of-hydronyms-from-quantitative-and-sociological-perspectives Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 1. Keynote Lectures. Toponomastics 10.4467/K7501.45/22.23.18066 10.4467/K7501.45/22.23.18066 b56389e6-bd6e-43b9-abc7-9af91c5afc6b 7de802a3-610e-4023-bb20-ff814f7c94c9 9788323375012 331-353 open access
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