RSS 1.0Research in Language (2014) vol.12 nr 2
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Formulaic Sequences as Fluency Devices in the Oral Production of Native Speakers of Polish
Ewa Guz
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Stop Release in Polish English — Implications for Prosodic Constituency
Geoffrey Schwartz, Anna Balas, Arkadiusz Rojczyk
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“I Understood You, But There was This Pronunciation Thing…”: L2 Pronunciation Feedback in English/French Tandem Interactions
Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study
Lukas Sönning
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Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as A Cue to Accent Strength
Jan Volín, Lenka Weingartová
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Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English
Anna Gralińska-Brawata
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness
Radek Skarnitzl, Pavel Šturm
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Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as A Cue to Accent Strength
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Due to the clear interference of their mother tongue prosody, many Czech learners produce their English with a conspicuous foreign accent. The goal of the present study is to investigate the acoustic cues that differentiate ... -
Language Experience and Phonetic Training as Factors Influencing Timing Organisation in Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)The paper investigates the dynamics of speech rhythm in Polish learners of English and, specifically, how rhythm measurements revealing durational characteristics of vocalic and consonantal intervals through the measures ... -
Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, ... -
Stop Release in Polish English — Implications for Prosodic Constituency
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Although there is little consensus on the relevance of non-contrastive allophonic processes in L2 speech acquisition, EFL pronunciation textbooks cover the suppression of stop release in coda position. The tendency for ... -
Formulaic Sequences as Fluency Devices in the Oral Production of Native Speakers of Polish
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)In this paper we attempt to determine the nature and strength of the relationship between the use of formulaic sequences and productive fluency of native speakers of Polish. In particular, we seek to validate the claim ... -
“I Understood You, But There was This Pronunciation Thing…”: L2 Pronunciation Feedback in English/French Tandem Interactions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)We hope that our data brings a valuable and fairly unique contribution to SLA research, helping to establish which errors get corrected and how it may have implications for setting priorities in L2 pronunciation teaching. -
Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: ...