Czy nazwy żeńskie typu architektka, chirurżka i adiunktka są trudne do wymówienia? Badanie empiryczne
Are feminine nouns such as architektka 'female architect', chirurżka 'female surgeon', and adiunktka 'female assistant professor' difficult to pronounce? An empirical study

Summary/Abstract: The paper reports on an empirical study which aims at verifying a frequent claim concerning the restriction on the formation of feminine nouns posed by consonant clusters emerging on the attachment of the suffix -ka to masculine stems. We provide evidence that only one of the 20 nouns used in the experiment, i.e. adiunktka has proved to be difficult for the participants to pronounce by while the remaining items such as architektka and chirurżka were rather easy or easy to articulate.

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