Research in Language
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"Research in Language" (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.
Nazwa główna: Research in Language
ISSN: 1731-7533
E-ISSN: 2083-4616
Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Format: Open Access (licencja CC BY-NC-ND)
Ukazuje się od: 2003 r.
Strona internetowa czasopisma / Journal website
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The interface of real world, lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of the Contact Sense of the German preposition an (on, at) and its Polish Spanish and English counterparts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper takes up the issue of creating meanings, focusing the dynamic relation between lexicalization and conceptualization on the example of prepositions. By providing a systematic view of the specific meanings of the ... -
Examining Temporal Structure of Speech with a Local Articulation Rate Metric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The primary goal of our study is to propose a method of calculating and visualising local articulation rate for research in temporal structure of speech. The method builds on proportional durations of vowels and consonants ... -
Exploring Pitch Accent as an Element of Fluency in L2 English Academic Presentations – a Proficiency-based Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The study explores the effectiveness of raising prosodic awareness in teaching academic presentations to a mixed proficiency group of adult Polish students majoring in English from the perspective of prosody as well as ... -
Julian of Norwich’s a Revelation of Love: A Grounded Cognition Approach to a Late Medieval Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)Julian of Norwich was a late medieval anchoress and writer, whose work, The Showings, is known for its vivid imagery and bodily resonance it prompts in the reader. The paper identifies a gap in research on the embodied ... -
Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper explores the use and impact of conceptual metaphors in the graphic novel City of Glass published by Paul Auster as a free-standing story in 1985. Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New ... -
Liquid Fear: Bauman’s Metaphorical Insights in Relation to Covid-19 Fear Metaphors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)In this study I attempt to demonstrate how Zygmunt Bauman’s insights published in his book entitled Liquid Fear (2006) benefit the cognitive study of the emotion of fear by drawing correspondences between Bauman’s liquid ... -
Language Proficiency and Sonorant Devoicing in English Plosive-Sonorant Clusters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group. The ... -
Speech Rhythm in Spontaneous and Controlled L2 Speaking Modes: Exploring Differences and Distance Measures
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic ... -
Asymmetrical Equivalence Classification – Cluster Affrication vs. Lenis Stops in the Speech of Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)According to the Speech Learning Model (Flege 1995), successful L2 phonological acquisition is facilitated by the formation of new phonetic categories in the L2. However, category formation may be hindered by equivalence ... -
Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The main goal of the study reported in this paper was to verify whether the Big Five personality traits can be considered correlates of accentedness in a setting deprived of pronunciation-focused instruction. Each trait ... -
Pronunciation Anxiety, Pronunciation-Related Views and Pronunciation Learning Actions of EMI and English Major Students
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The present study explored pronunciation views, learning actions and anxiety in two differentiated English learner groups: one group which was studying English in an engineering degree and another group enrolled in an ... -
Zooming into the L2 Speech Fluency Markers of Anxious and Non-Anxious Advanced L2 Learners – an Extreme Case Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The study examines selected temporal markers of L2 utterance fluency in the speech of advanced L2 learners who exhibit high (HLA) and low (LLA) language anxiety levels. Out of the pool of 59 participants, six HLA and six ... -
Tailoring International Pronunciation Activities for Hungarian Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Pronunciation teaching is gaining more and more recognition in international contexts, however, empirical research concerning pronunciation teaching is underrepresented in the Hungarian educational context. While there are ... -
A Multimodal Study of How Pronunciation-Induced Communication Breakdowns are Managed During Tandem Interactions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper offers quantitative and qualitative findings from the exploration of communication breakdowns in English tandem interactions, by adopting a multimodal perspective. It focuses on the ways in which pronunciation-induced ... -
Self-Study of the MOOC English Pronunciation in a Global World: Metaphonetic Awareness and English Accent Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge ... -
Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our ... -
Accents in Speech Recognition through the Lens of a World Englishes Evaluation Set
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech, creating bias issues for users and providers. The phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present challenges for ASR systems in both ... -
Theoretical and Practical Phonetic Instruction in the Eyes of Advanced Students. An Editorial to RiL Special Issue Vol. 21.3 and 21.4 on Pronunciation Research and Pronunciation Learning/Teaching in a Global EFL Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The article focuses on advanced students’ beliefs and views related to their own pronunciation and pronunciation learning/teaching. It also presents their opinions on the university courses dedicated to phonetics and ... -
The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. ... -
Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The language of propaganda can be treated as a specialist language with its own specialized terminology. It is produced by groups of variously configured propaganda experts responsible for the creation of propaganda messages, ...