Research in Language: Recent submissions
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Phonetic Imitation of Vowel Duration in L2 Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)This paper reports the results of a pilot study concerned with phonetic imitation in the speech of Polish learners of English. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether native speakers of Polish imitate the length ... -
Spectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to ... -
Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, ... -
French Learners of L2 English: Intonation Boundaries and the Marking of Lexical Stress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)To test my hypothesis, I collected passages of read speech by thirteen upper intermediate/advanced French learners of English along with the same passage read by ten native English speakers. Two trisyllabics carrying primary ... -
Phonetics Learning Anxiety – Results of a Preliminary Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The Phonetics Learning Anxiety Scale, a 44-item questionnaire based on a 6-point Likert scale, designed for the purpose of the research sheds light on the nature of this peculiar type of apprehension experienced by advanced ... -
The Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in TV Discourse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)Since repetition is a natural phenomenon used to perform various functions in interactional discourse, adopting a pragmatic analysis to the discourse of Dr. Phil and his guests on Dr. Phil's TV show, this study attempted ... -
Testing the Limits of Anaphoric Distance in Classical Arabic: a Corpus-Based Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)One of the central aims in research on anaphora is to discover the factors that determine the choice of referential expressions in discourse. Ariel (1988; 2001) offers an Accessibility Scale where referential expressions, ... -
Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in ... -
The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns
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Epistemic Vigilance, Cautious Optimism and Sophisticated Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)Humans have developed a critical alertness to the believability and reliability of communication: epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010). It is responsible for trusting interlocutors and believing interpretations. But ... -
The Act of Fictional Communication in a Hermeneutic Pragmatics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)This paper is concerned with fictional communication, as the act of an author in relation to a reader. Fictional discourse exhibits certain complexities that are not observable in other forms of discourse. For example, the ... -
Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals ... -
Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3
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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other ... -
Die kleine House-Apotheke: Reception of the American, German and Polish Gregory House and Varied Translations of the Pronoun you
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)Two audiovisual translations of the American hit medical drama, House M.D., German dubbing and Polish voiceover, and the analysis of translation strategies of the pronominal form of address you are the point of departure ... -
Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn ... -
What is Said and Indirect Speech Reports
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)In their Insensitive Semantics (2005) Cappelen and Lepore argue for the Controversial Aspect (CA) which is a part of their Speech Act Pluralism and which says that speakers don’t have privileged access to what they say. ... -
Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)There are significant cross-cultural differences in the way compliments and refusals are made and responded to. The investigation of these speech acts touches on some interesting issues for pragmatic theory: the relation ... -
Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas ... -
Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a ...