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This publication was supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Excellence Initiative – Research University programme at the Jagiellonian University.

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Editor-in-Chief Orcid Magdalena Szczyrbak

Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Orcid Mateusz Urban

Language Editors Dariusz Hanusiak, Ramon Shindler

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Eugeniusz Cyran

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Vol. 19, Issue 2, Early Access

The view that phonology is some form of abstraction of the phonetics determines the nature of the relation between the two domains and often leads to various types of circularity that allow for descriptively adequate analyses, but do not seem to contribute to better understanding of sound patterns. Representation-based phonological approaches, such as laryngeal realism, which adhere to privativity, restrict possible phonological mechanisms and enforce multifaceted analyses in which only some phenomena may be phonological, while others must be viewed as interpretational or phonetic in nature. This paper argues for strict separation of the domains and focuses on the consequences that new laryngeal realism and relativism entail with respect to the nature of the interface between phonology and phonetics and on the understanding of Polish voicing. This article has two parts. Part 1 sets the theoretical background concerning phonological representation of laryngeal contrasts and provides an overview of approaches to pre-sonorant sandhi in Polish dialects through the lens of various types of representational or computational circularity. Part 2 discusses a recent proposal called new laryngeal realism pointing to its deficiencies and advantages as compared with laryngeal relativism.
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Nawoja Mikołajczak-Matyja

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Vol. 19, Issue 2, Early Access

The article presents a comparative analysis of two pairs of words regarded as accidental semantic binary oppositions, belonging to different levels of generality: chrześcijanin ‘Christian’ and muzułmanin ‘Muslim’ (the names of followers of two major religions) and katolik ‘Catholic’ and protestant ‘Protestant’ (hyponyms of the word chrześcijanin as the names of the main denominations within the Christian religion). The analysis sought to identify the functions performed by pairs of words connected by the relation of semantic opposition, co-occurring within a sentence. The analysis covered a set of 538 sentences selected from the balanced sub-corpus of the National Corpus of Polish. In the analysed sentences, it was possible to identify most of the functions from the sets proposed in earlier studies on inherent binary semantic oppositions. The percentage share of most functions is similar for both analysed pairs. The three most common functions are the same; moreover, they have similar or even the same relative frequence. The relations between the denotations of the members of a given pair, shown in sentences with the two most common functions, are also similar for both analysed pairs.
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This publication was supported by a grant from the Faculty of Philology under the Excellence Initiative – Research University programme at the Jagiellonian University.