Research in Language: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 321-340 z 394
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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day ... -
Mispronounced lexical items in polish English of advanced learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The present study is a report on an experiment in which 20 English Department students, all advanced learners of English, were recorded having been asked to read a list of diagnostic sentences containing 80 words known to ... -
The double-edged sword of RP: the contrasting roles of a pronunciation model in both native and non-native environments
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The observations I make are largely based on my MA research, which is now being modified for the purposes of my Ph.D. I asked undergraduate students of English in England and the Czech Republic to evaluate seven voices ... -
Using Nigerian English in an international academic setting
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are ... -
Measuring vowel duration variability in native English speakers and polish learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents a set of simple statistical measures that illustrate the difference between native English speakers and Polish learners of English in varying the length of vocalic segments in read speech. Relative vowel ... -
More on the voicing of English obstruents: voicing retention vs. voicing loss
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)In Gonet (2010), one of the present authors found out that English word-final phonologically voiced obstruents in the voicing-favouring environment exhibit asymmetrical, if not erratic, behaviour in that voicing in plosives ... -
The effect of word-initial glottalization on word monitoring in Slovak speakers of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The study investigates the impact of glottal elements before word-initial vowels on the speed of processing of the phrases taken from natural continuous speech. In many languages a word beginning with a vowel can be preceded ... -
Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of lot, thought, strut, palm and bath
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The current study presents acoustic analyses of non-high back vowels and low central vowels in the lexical sets LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH as pronounced by German learners of English. The main objective is to show ... -
Questionnaire-based pronunciation studies: Italian, Spanish and polish students’ views on their English pronunciation
(Versita, 2012-10-21)Rather than casting new light on teaching pronunciation, the outcome of this study is consistent with the findings of other research on foreign students’ choice of preferred pronunciation model, which is undeniably native ... -
Perception of Fa by non-native listeners in a study abroad context
(Versita, 2012-10-21)The present study aims at exploring the under-investigated interface between SA and L2 phonological development by assessing the impact of a 3-month SA programme on the pronunciation of a group of 23 Catalan/Spanish learners ... -
The English pronunciation teaching in Europe survey: selected results
(Versita, 2012-10-21)The results of EPTiES reveal interesting phenomena across Europe, despite shortcomings in terms of construction and distribution. For example, most respondents are non-native speakers of English and the majority of them ... -
English read by Japanese phonetic corpus: an interim report
(Versita, 2012-10-21)The primary purpose of this paper is to explain the procedure of developing the English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus. A series of preliminary studies (Makino 2007, 2008, 2009) made it clear that a phonetically-transcribed ... -
Combining different types of data in studying attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca
(Versita, 2012-10-21)This paper deals with the attitudes of Croatian speakers to ELF, in particular to its pronunciation. Four methods were combined to reach conclusions about the status of ELF in Croatia: diary study, teacher interviews, a ... -
The perception of English-accented polish – a pilot study
(Versita, 2012-10-21)•Does familiarity with a specific foreign language facilitate the recognition and identification of that accent in foreign-accented Polish? -
This is tom = /ZYZYS’tom/ pronunciation in beginners’ EFL textbooks then and now
(Versita, 2012-10-21)The textbook appears to be one of the most fundamental elements of all formal-setting foreign language teaching and learning. Textbooks function in a foreign language classroom in many capacities (Cunningsworth 1995), one ... -
Do Marked Topics Enhance Memory?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)We examined the effects of markedness, the deviation from the canonical Subject-Verb-Object structure in English, on the memory of listeners for the topic of the sentence. We used three marked topic constructions: ... -
Repairing Tales from Japan: Changes Over Time in Personal Narratives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)At two different times, Time 1 and Time 2, 13 participants in Japan (8 Japanese and 5 Americans) were asked to spontaneously respond in English to this prompt: "Tell me about one of the most exciting or dangerous moments ... -
Temporal Inferences in Conversation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)Within this article, I explore how coproductions (expansions made by a second speaker upon a previous utterance) and questions regarding prior utterances work to verbalize inferences regarding the temporal information in ... -
The Effects of a Combined Output and Input-Oriented Approach in Teaching Reported Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)The participants of the study are 74 first year students of the English philology who were divided into four groups: 3 treatment groups and a control one. The study results do not mirror those reported in the vast majority ... -
Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning ...