Browsing Research in Language (2012) vol.10 nr 2 by Issue Date
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Transfer, similarity or lack of awareness? inconsistencies of German learners in the pronunciation of lot, thought, strut, palm and bath
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The current study presents acoustic analyses of non-high back vowels and low central vowels in the lexical sets LOT, THOUGHT, STRUT, PALM and BATH as pronounced by German learners of English. The main objective is to show ... -
Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a ... -
Measuring vowel duration variability in native English speakers and polish learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents a set of simple statistical measures that illustrate the difference between native English speakers and Polish learners of English in varying the length of vocalic segments in read speech. Relative vowel ... -
The double-edged sword of RP: the contrasting roles of a pronunciation model in both native and non-native environments
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The observations I make are largely based on my MA research, which is now being modified for the purposes of my Ph.D. I asked undergraduate students of English in England and the Czech Republic to evaluate seven voices ... -
New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day ... -
Mispronounced lexical items in polish English of advanced learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The present study is a report on an experiment in which 20 English Department students, all advanced learners of English, were recorded having been asked to read a list of diagnostic sentences containing 80 words known to ... -
The effect of word-initial glottalization on word monitoring in Slovak speakers of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The study investigates the impact of glottal elements before word-initial vowels on the speed of processing of the phrases taken from natural continuous speech. In many languages a word beginning with a vowel can be preceded ... -
More on the voicing of English obstruents: voicing retention vs. voicing loss
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)In Gonet (2010), one of the present authors found out that English word-final phonologically voiced obstruents in the voicing-favouring environment exhibit asymmetrical, if not erratic, behaviour in that voicing in plosives ... -
Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas ... -
Using Nigerian English in an international academic setting
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are ...