Lietuvių pavardžių skiemens struktūra (statistinis tyrimas)
Syllable Structure of Lithuanian Surnames (statistical analysis)

Summary/Abstract: In the article, an attempt is made to discuss structural types of the syllables of Lithuanian surnames and to determine the general regularities of the surname syllable phonotactics. In total, 145 954 phonological surname syllables have been examined. The analysis has revealed 28 generalised syllable structures. The experiment has been carried out using the original software programine SKIEMUO.PAS. (the programming language Turbo Pascal. 7), developed by A. Girdenis. The programme was used to statistically process surname syllables in order to determine the number of structural types of the syllables and their productiviry. The results obtained can be summarised as follows: • Average length of the Lithuanian surname is 3.18 syllables; • Dominant structural types of the surname syllables are CV (42%) and CVC (33%); • In surnames, open syllables prevail (73% of all syllables); • The generalissed structure of the Lithuanian surname syllables confirms the universality known in the world linguistics: the CVC structural type is rarer than that of CV, and VC is less frequent than CV.

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