Browsing Research in Language (2010) vol.8 by Title
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Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent
(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 ... -
A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English
(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 ... -
Designing and Piloting a Tool for the Measurement of the Use of Pronunciation Learning Strategies
(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 ... -
The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation
(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 ... -
Exploring L1 Transfer in German Learners of English: High Front Vowels, High Back Vowels and the BED/BAD Distinction
(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 ... -
Forming New Vowel Categories in Second Language Speech: The Case of Polish Learners' Production of English /I/ and /e/
(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. ... -
From Focus on Sounds to Focus on Words in English Pronunciation Instruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)The authors present a report on the experiment in which a group of 25 Polish secondary school pupils has undergone a special training in the pronunciation of 50 commonly mispronounced words with the use of special, ... -
Is Metrical Foot a Phonetic Object?
(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 ... -
Making English a New Latin
(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 ... -
Native Speaker Perceptions of Accented Speech: The English Pronunciation of Macedonian EFL Learners
(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 ... -
Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English
(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 ... -
Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic ... -
Variable Scottish English Consonants: The Cases of /m/ and Non-Prevocalic /r/
(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 ...