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dc.contributor.authorVolín, Janen
dc.contributor.authorWeingartová, Lenkaen
dc.contributor.authorSkarnitzl, Radeken
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-12T12:36:25Z
dc.date.available2015-06-12T12:36:25Z
dc.date.issued2013-05-04en
dc.identifier.issn1731-7533en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/9662
dc.description.abstractThe English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to schwa, which, on the suprasegmental level of description, affects the perceived rhythm of their speech. However, the problem of capturing quantitatively the differences between native and non-native schwa poses difficulties that, to this day, have been tackled only partially. We offer a technique of measurement in the acoustic domain that has not been probed properly as yet: the distribution of acoustic energy in the vowel spectrum. Our results show that spectral slope features measured in weak vowels discriminate between Czech and British speakers of English quite reliably. Moreover, the measurements of formant bandwidths turned out to be useful for the same task, albeit less directen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Language;11en
dc.rightsThis content is open access.en
dc.subjectforeign accenten
dc.subjectprominenceen
dc.subjectschwaen
dc.subjectspectral slopeen
dc.titleSpectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented Englishen
dc.page.number31-39en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationVolín Jan - Metropolitan University Pragueen
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationWeingartová Lenka - Institute of Phonetics in Pragueen
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationSkarnitzl Radek - Institute of Phonetics in Pragueen
dc.identifier.eissn2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmailVolín Jan - Jan.Volin@ff.cuni.czen
dc.contributor.authorEmailWeingartová Lenka - Lenka.Weingartova@ff.cuni.czen
dc.contributor.authorEmailSkarnitzl Radek - Radek.Skarnitzl@ff.cuni.czen
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/v10015-012-0008-6en


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