TY - CHAP

T1 - Current Dyslexia Research and Practice in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

AU - Caravolas, Marketa

AU - Kucharska, Anna

AU - Marína, Mikulajová

PY - 2024/7/29

Y1 - 2024/7/29

N2 - Czech and Slovak are closely related languages of the West Slavic subgroup of the Indo-European family. The two languages are broadly mutually intelligible, with similar roots and fusional morphology word structures. Both are highly inflected and hence have a predominance of multisyllabic words that can mark for a rich variety of inflectional and derivational grammatical information (Volín, 2010). Their distribution of word length is virtually identical, with words of three syllables being the most prevalent (40% in Czech, 38% in Slovak), followed by two-syllable words, then words of four syllables, with monosyllabic words ranking only in fourth place (Kessler & Caravolas, 2011). Both languages have a predominantly open (CV, CCV, etc.) syllable structure, and the singleton onset (C) is by far the most prevalent (Kučera & Monroe, 1968). A particular feature of Czech and Slovak phonology is that they allow for complexity in onset structure, with up to four consonants at the start of a syllable. In contrast, at the level of the coda (syllable endings), both languages have limited complexity allowing one or two consonants, but by far most frequent are open syllables (no consonant after the vowel).

AB - Czech and Slovak are closely related languages of the West Slavic subgroup of the Indo-European family. The two languages are broadly mutually intelligible, with similar roots and fusional morphology word structures. Both are highly inflected and hence have a predominance of multisyllabic words that can mark for a rich variety of inflectional and derivational grammatical information (Volín, 2010). Their distribution of word length is virtually identical, with words of three syllables being the most prevalent (40% in Czech, 38% in Slovak), followed by two-syllable words, then words of four syllables, with monosyllabic words ranking only in fourth place (Kessler & Caravolas, 2011). Both languages have a predominantly open (CV, CCV, etc.) syllable structure, and the singleton onset (C) is by far the most prevalent (Kučera & Monroe, 1968). A particular feature of Czech and Slovak phonology is that they allow for complexity in onset structure, with up to four consonants at the start of a syllable. In contrast, at the level of the coda (syllable endings), both languages have limited complexity allowing one or two consonants, but by far most frequent are open syllables (no consonant after the vowel).

U2 - 10.4324/9781003408277

DO - 10.4324/9781003408277

M3 - Chapter

BT - Dyslexia in Many Languages Insights, Interactions and Interventions

A2 - Elbeheri, Gad

A2 - Reid, Gavin

A2 - Fawcett, Angela

PB - Routledge

ER -