Research in Language: Ostatnio dodane

Wyświetlanie pozycji 361-380 z 394

    • Variable Scottish English Consonants: The Cases of /m/ and Non-Prevocalic /r/ 

      Schützler, Ole (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence ...

    • Making English a New Latin 

      Scheuer, Sylwia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success. A critical factor in ...

    • Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/ 

      Rojczyk, Arkadiusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      The paper concentrates on formation of L2 English vowel categories in the speech of Polish learners. More specifically, it compares distribution of two English categories - /I/ and /e/ relative to neighbouring Polish vowels. ...

    • The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation 

      Porzuczek, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in ...

    • Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent 

      Podhovnik, Edith (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect ...

    • Designing and Piloting a Tool for the Measurement of the Use of Pronunciation Learning Strategies 

      Pawlak, Mirosław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      What appears to be indispensable to drive the field forward and ensure that research findings will be comparable across studies and provide a sound basis for feasible pedagogic proposals is to draw up a classification of ...

    • Native Speaker Perceptions of Accented Speech: The English Pronunciation of Macedonian EFL Learners 

      Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      The paper reports on the results of a study that aimed to describe the vocalic and consonantal features of the English pronunciation of Macedonian EFL learners as perceived by native speakers of English and to find out ...

    • Exploring L1 Transfer in German Learners of English: High Front Vowels, High Back Vowels and the BED/BAD Distinction 

      Kautzsch, Alexander (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      Since the vowel systems of German and English are similar to some extent, German learners of English can be expected to transfer a considerable part of their German vowels to their L2 English. This paper traces the extent ...

    • A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English 

      Henderson, Alice (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle). The term also applies to words that exhibit different ...

    • Is Metrical Foot a Phonetic Object? 

      Ciszewski, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)
      The assumption behind this pilot study is that metrical feet are not ‘groups of syllables’ or ‘interstress intervals’ but rather ‘groups of vowels’ extracted from the phonetic material contained between two stresses. We ...

    • Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Category Realisation in Non-Native Speech 

      Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      The realisation of phonetic categories reflects a complex relationship between individual phonetic parameters and both linguistic and extra-linguistic conditioning of language usage. The present paper investigates the ...

    • English Centering Diphthong Production By Polish Learners of English 

      Balas, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      The paper shows how British English centering diphthongs are adapted to the vowel space of Polish learners of English. The goal is to focus on complex vowels and the interaction of qualitative and quantitative features. ...

    • Models and Targets for the Pronunciation of English in Vietnam and Sweden 

      Cunningham, Una (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      This paper aims to account for the factors that lie behind the choice of models and targets for the pronunciation of English by learners of English in Vietnam and in Sweden. English is the first foreign language in both ...

    • Musical Intelligence and Foreign Language Learning 

      Zybert, Jerzy; Stępień, Sabina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      The article discusses the potential advantage that musically gifted FL learners have in developing the speaking skill, especially in acquiring some prosodic features. Empirical findings are provided to support the assumption.

    • The Effect of Text Authenticity on the Performance of Iranian EFL Students in a C-Test 

      Cheng, Karen Kow Yip; Biglar Baygi, Amir; Solaymani, Mesod (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      As part of growing efforts to understand factors affecting c-test this study aims to investigate the effect of text authenticity on the performance of Iranian EFL students in a C-Test. The C-Test is an integrative testing ...

    • Arab EFL Learners' Acquisition of Modals 

      Saeed, Aziz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      This paper investigates Arab EFL learners' acquisition of modal verbs. The study used a questionnaire, which comprises two versions, testing students' mastery of modals at the levels of both recognition and production. The ...

    • Grammar Learning Strategies and Language Attainment: Seeking a Relationship 

      Pawlak, Mirosław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      Despite major advances in research on language learning strategies, there are still areas that have received only scant attention, and one of them is undoubtedly learning grammar. The paper contributes to the paucity of ...

    • A Pedagogical Evaluation of Intra-Sentential Code-Switching Patterns in L2 Classroom Talk 

      Majer, Jan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      The paper is concerned with teachers' and students' alternation between L1 and L2 within the same utterance, i.e. uses of intra-sentential code-switching which in classroom discourse tends to be less accepted by modern ...

    • The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System 

      Wei, Longxing (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)
      This paper explores the nature of interlanguage (IL) as a developing system with a focus on the abstract lexical structure underlying IL construction. The developing system of IL is assumed to be ‘composite’ in that in ...

    • Editorial Statement 

      Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa; Majer, Jan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)