Research in Language: Recent submissions
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Dynamic Targets in the Acquisition of L2 English Vowels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper presents acoustic data on the dynamic properties of the FLEECE and TRAP vowels in the speech of two groups of Polish users of English. Results reveal that the more proficient group users, made up of teachers and ... -
Refining the Methodology for Investigating the Relationship Between Fluency and the Use of Formulaic Language in Learner Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This study is a cross-sectional analysis of the relationship between productive fluency and the use of formulaic sequences in the speech of highly proficient L2 learners. Two samples of learner speech were randomly drawn ... -
English Pronunciation Teaching at Different Educational Levels: Insights Into Teachers’ Perceptions and Actions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The aim of the present paper is to reflect upon the place of pronunciation in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching at different educational levels in Poland. To collect the data, an on-line survey was conducted ... -
Global Foreign Accent Rating of Code-Switched and L2-Only Sentences
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Recent studies of short-term phonetic interference suggest that code-switching can lead to momentary increases in L1 influence on L2. In an earlier study using a single acoustic measure (VOT), we found that Czech EFL ... -
English Spelling Among the Top Priorities in Pronunciation Teaching: Polglish Local Versus Global(ised) Errors in the Production and Perception of Words Commonly Mispronounced
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The results of the study confirm the necessity for explicit instruction on the regularity rather than irregularity of English spelling in order to eradicate globalised and ‘either-or’ pronunciation errors in the speech of ... -
Perception of Allophonic Cues to English Word Boundaries by Polish Learners: Approximant Devoicing in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The study investigates the perception of devoicing of English /w, r, j, l/ after /p, t, k/ as a word-boundary cue by Polish listeners. Polish does not devoice sonorants following voiceless stops in word-initial positions. ... -
Perceptual Impact of Speech Melody Hybridization: English and Czech English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The current paper examines the role of intonation in the perception of foreign-accented speech. In order to assess how difficult it is to mentally process native, non-native and modified speech melodies, four conditions ... -
Pre-Fortis Shortening in Czech English: A Production and Reaction-Time Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This study focuses on the production and perception of English words with a fortis vs. lenis obstruent in the syllable coda. The contrast is mostly cued by the duration of the preceding vowel, which is shorter before fortis ... -
L1 Vowels of Multilinguals: The Applicability of SLM in Multilingualism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Although L1 has been treated as a rigid system which is more likely to act as a sender than a receiver of CLI in bilinguals and multilinguals, recent studies have provided some evidence of the influence of both L2 and L3 ... -
Spectral Dynamics in L1 and L2 Vowel Perception
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper presents a study of L1 and L2 vowel perception by Polish learners of English. Employing the Silent Center paradigm (e.g. Strange et al. 1983), by which listeners are presented with different portions of a vowel, ... -
The Meaning of “Nasal Grunts” in the Necte Corpus. A Preliminary Perceptual Investigation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper reports a perceptual evaluation of the meanings conveyed by the acoustic components of “nasal grunts” (Chlebowski and Ballier 2015), i.e., non-lexical conversational sounds realised with a nasal feature (e.g. ... -
The Role of Curriculum Design and Teaching Materials in Pronunciation Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper aims to provide insights into the role of curriculum design and teaching materials in the development of English pronunciation skills in EFL contexts. One of the main contextual factors negatively affecting the ... -
Phonetic Notation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Potential Advantages and Learners’ Views
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper focuses on the use of phonetic notation in foreign language teaching and learning. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, we review some of the potential advantages that the use of phonetic notation seems to ... -
Topic- and Mode-Sensitive Interaction Strategies: Functions of Ellipsis in Oral Communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)In this article, we discuss ellipsis as an interactive strategy by analysing the author’s textchat corpus and the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca. It is found that there were fewer repetitions in the textchat ... -
Phrase Frames in English Pharmaceutical Discourse: A Corpus-Driven Study of Intradisciplinary Register Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Focusing on the exploration of intra-disciplinary register variation in the pharmaceutical domain, this corpus-driven study attempts to describe the use, composition and discourse functions of phrase frames, that is, ... -
Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper examines the vowel system of present day Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) or Kristang, based on recordings from interviews with five female native speakers of MPC. A total of 1083 monophthongs were extracted from ... -
Establishing the Fluency Gap Between Native and Non-Native-Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Although various dimensions of speech fluency have so far generated a great deal of research interest, very few accounts have tackled the issue of the relationship between L1 and L2 fluency. Also, little empirical evidence ... -
Pronunciation acquisition patterns of learners with different starting levels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)This study described the results of an investigation into the effect of an intensive 12-week pronunciation course in British English which 30 Dutch female 1st-year university students of English took. They read out the ... -
Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in ... -
The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm ...