Research in Language: Recent submissions
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The effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of English affixes by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: acquisition and application
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This study aims to examine the effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of 30 English affixes by 50 Arabic-speaking EFL learners in an attempt to determine which affixes are more easily comprehended. We adopt the ... -
Developing a Pronunciation Computer Program for the Acquisition of English Phonemes and Word Stress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This study devised a pronunciation computer program to examine whether mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) could facilitate college students’ acquisition of English phonemes and word stress. Thirty-eight participants ... -
Accents of English at Czech schools: Students’ attitudes and recognition skills
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)The study investigates the attitudes of 254 Czech students towards English as the main language taught at secondary schools. The questionnaire enquired about their perspectives on learning English in general, British and ... -
Overshooting Americanisation. Accent stylisation in pop singing – acoustic properties of the bath and trap vowels in focus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)The paper addresses the problem of overshoot involved in singing accent stylisation. Selected phonetic features indexed as “American” and “Cockney” are analysed in the singing and speaking styles of a British vocalist, ... -
English word stress in Polish learners’ speech production and metacompetence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This paper focuses on the relations between conscious and subconscious aspects of English word stress acquisition. Using two tasks–reading and written word stress identification, we test metacompetence and production ... -
The relationship between the production of word stress and musical abilities in Polish learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-11)The pilot study presented in this paper is exploratory in nature and aims first to investigate if there exists a relationship between the production of word stress and learners’ musical abilities, and then, to explore the ... -
Credibility of native and non-native speakers of English revisited: Do non-native listeners feel the same?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-11)This study reports on research stimulated by Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) who showed that native listeners find statements delivered by foreign-accented speakers to be less true than those read by native speakers. Our objective ... -
English pronunciation training through the eyes of university graduates
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-11)The aim of the current study is to examine the program of pronunciation training and its implementation from a new perspective, which is that of MA graduates. The data were obtained from 65 graduates of the Faculty of ... -
The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-11)This paper reports on a study that attempted to examine the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction of some English segments (individual sounds) on the degree of perceived foreign accent in EFL Arab learners’ speech. ... -
Effects of Text-messaging on the Academic Writing of Arab EFL Students
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-11)This paper investigates the effect of text-messaging on Arab EFL learners’ English academic writing. It also investigates teachers’ attitudes and reactions to the presence of e-texting features in their students’ writing. ... -
Inter-Relations of Core Language, Pragmatic Language, and Social Competence in Preschoolers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Language skills provide preschoolers with the foundational skills needed to socially interact, but little is known about the relationship between specific language skills and broad constructs of social competence. Sixteen ... -
Classifier Constructions as Procedural Referring Expressions in American Sign Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The present paper comments on signs of American Sign Language in the perspective of relevance theory. The main claim is that classifiers encode procedural instructions to help the addressee pick out the intended referent ... -
Incomplete Descriptions and the Underdetermination Problem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The purpose of this paper is to discuss two phenomena related to the semantics of definite descriptions: that of incomplete uses of descriptions, and that of the underdetermination of referential uses of descriptions. The ... -
The Position of Negative Adjectives in Aelfric’s Catholic Homilies I
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)In Old English, negative adjectives, i.e. incorporating the negative prefix -un, are said to generally come in postposition to nouns (e.g. Fischer, 2001; Sampson, 2010). This paper investigates to what extent this general ... -
Effects of Word Class and Training Method on Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)It is not fully known whether nouns or verbs are easier to learn in a second language. A noun learning advantage has been observed for children in many languages (e.g., Gentner, 1982), but few have examined whether mature ... -
Aiming for Cognitive Equivalence – Mental Models as a Tertium Comparationis for Translation and Empirical Semantics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)This paper introduces my concept of cognitive equivalence (cf. Mandelblit, 1997), an attempt to reconcile elements of Nida’s dynamic equivalence with recent innovations in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, ... -
Moving-Time and Moving-Ego Metaphors from a Translational and Contrastivelinguistic Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)This article is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of two types of time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor. The latter metaphor appears to be far less well-entrenched in languages ... -
Translating Conceptual Metaphor: The Processes of Managing Interlingual Asymmetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)Encountered at all levels of language, conceptual asymmetries between source and target languages present translators with fundamental challenges that require problem awareness, problem identification and problem solving. ... -
A Multivariate Study of T/V Forms in European Languages Based on a Parallel Corpus of Film Subtitles
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)The present study investigates the cross-linguistic differences in the use of so-called T/V forms (e.g. French tu and vous, German du and Sie, Russian ty and vy) in ten European languages from different language families ... -
Partial Perception and Approximate Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)What is discussed in the present paper is the assumption concerning a human narrowed sense of perception of external world and, resulting from this, a basically approximate nature of concepts that are to portray it. Apart ...