Research in Language: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The perennial question as to how perceived otherness in speech projects into listener assessment of one’s personality has been systematically investigated within the field of foreign accentedness, vocal communication of ... -
The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English. Mimicry performance and English pronunciation ... -
Desperately Seeking a Communicative Approach: English Pronunciation in a Sample of French and Polish Secondary School Textbooks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The first part of this paper analyses pronunciation exercises in a representative sample of textbooks from each country. Pronunciation exercises were classified based on the degree to which they mobilize communicative ... -
Putting Prosody First – Some Practical Solutions to a Perennial Problem: The Innovalangues Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)This paper presents some of the difficulties of teaching languages, in particular English, in the context of LSP/LAP2 programmes in French universities. The main focus of this paper will be the importance of prosody, ... -
Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as A Cue to Accent Strength
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Due to the clear interference of their mother tongue prosody, many Czech learners produce their English with a conspicuous foreign accent. The goal of the present study is to investigate the acoustic cues that differentiate ... -
Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)The paper investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in Polish learners of English and, specifically, how rhythm measurements revealing durational characteristics of vocalic and consonantal intervals through the measures ... -
Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, ... -
Stop Release in Polish English — Implications for Prosodic Constituency
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Although there is little consensus on the relevance of non-contrastive allophonic processes in L2 speech acquisition, EFL pronunciation textbooks cover the suppression of stop release in coda position. The tendency for ... -
Formulaic Sequences as Fluency Devices in the Oral Production of Native Speakers of Polish
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)In this paper we attempt to determine the nature and strength of the relationship between the use of formulaic sequences and productive fluency of native speakers of Polish. In particular, we seek to validate the claim ... -
“I Understood You, But There was This Pronunciation Thing…”: L2 Pronunciation Feedback in English/French Tandem Interactions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)We hope that our data brings a valuable and fairly unique contribution to SLA research, helping to establish which errors get corrected and how it may have implications for setting priorities in L2 pronunciation teaching. -
Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: ... -
Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-17)Based on a 2-million word bilingual comparable corpus of American and Italian judgments, this paper tests the applicability of a local grammar to study evaluative phraseology in judicial discourse in English and Italian. ... -
Discourse Markers and Modal Expressions in Speakers with and without Asperger Syndrome: A Pragmatic-Perceptive Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-17)From a theoretical point of view, this paper offers a new framework for the analysis of discourse markers: a pragmatic-perceptive model that emphasizes the point of the communication process in which such particles become ... -
On Transmitting Expressiveness in Belarusian-English Poetic Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-17)The present article deals with various lexical, grammatical, stylistic problems encountered by translators while transmitting aspects of expressiveness of the original text (on the example of Belarusian-English poetic ... -
Cognitive Metaphors of the Mind in the Canterbury Tales
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-17)The paper presents an analysis of a number of cognitive metaphors pertaining to the concept of mind (e.g. sanity and insanity), heart, and fire. The study has been based on the text of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... -
The Lisbon Treaty and the British Press a Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Evaluation Resources
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Conflicting Tendencies in the Development of Scientific and Technical Language Varieties: Metaphorization vs. Standardization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-17)The present paper discusses relations between meaning and context as an interactive process that promotes cognition and communication, both intralingual and interlingual. The article also studies two evident conflicting ... -
Foreign Accents in Polish: Non-native Speakers’ and Native Listeners’ Views
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-03-11)to draw implications for the phonetic training of foreigners who undertake to learn Polish. -
The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of the Netherlands
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-03-11)We present new evidence against a grammatical distinction between second and third person in Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT). More precisely, we show how pushing this distinction into the domain of pragmatics helps ... -
Gloomy Images of Yellow and Żółty in a Corpus-Based Cognitive Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-03-11)The outcomes confirm a conceptual proximity reflected in the semantics of these colour terms, which seems to be - perhaps surprisingly - incongruous with the popular association of yellow/żółty with the sun. As the evidence ...