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Problematic or interesting pronuntiation of foreign proper names (a Czech Television employees’ view)
 Jílková, Lucie
This article presents preliminary results from field research conducted at Czech Television. Researchers from the Czech Language Institute conducted a total of 11 approximately hour-long semi-structured interviews with Czech Television employees. Topics of the interviews included words which are problematic or otherwise interesting in terms of pronunciation, and potential solutions to these pronunciation problems. The article presents an overview of 80 foreign proper names, 10 common names and 12 abbreviations which have various pronunciation variants, respondents’ attitudes toward them, and in some cases their declared process of finding the appropriate pronunciation. Attention is further devoted to the respondents’ awareness of the rules for the pronunciation of loanwords and foreign language personal names in Czech.
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Problematic or interesting pronunciation of foreign proper names (a Czech Radio employees' view)
 Jílková, Lucie
This article presents preliminary results from field research conducted at Czech Radio. Researchers from the Czech Language Institute conducted a total of 15 approximately hour-long semi-structured interviews with Czech Radio employees. Topics of the interviews included (a) words which are problematic or otherwise interesting in terms of pronunciation, and (b) potential solutions to these pronunciation problems. The article presents an overview of nearly 80 foreign-language names which have various pronunciation variants, respondents’ attitudes toward them, and in some cases their declared process of finding the appropriate pronunciation. Attention is further devoted to the respondents’ awareness of the rules for the pronunciation of loanwords and foreign language personal names in Czech.
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