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“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. -
Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, ... -
The Impact of Cultural Experience of Two Translators on Literary Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)The main focus of this paper is to examine the translation strategies of the translators of Herta Müller’s novel Atemschaukel, Radka Denemarková (Czech) and Katarzyna Leszczyńska (Polish). The aim is to find out to what ... -
The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The perennial question as to how perceived otherness in speech projects into listener assessment of one’s personality has been systematically investigated within the field of foreign accentedness, vocal communication of ... -
The Implementation of Intelligibility-Based Pronunciation Instruction on a Pre-Sessional Eap Course in the Uk
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)Pre-sessional EAP access courses for learners of English intending to study on undergraduate or postgraduate courses in the UK are faced with particular challenges in incorporating meaningful suprasegmental pronunciation ... -
"Implicature-Laden" Elicitations in Talk Radio Shows
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)Indirect elicitations in talk radio programmes on BBC Radio are not uncommon, notwithstanding, misunderstanding between the host and his conversational partner is not frequent. Investigating some of the reasons this paper ... -
The Importance of Content Knowledge for Successful Legal Language Acquisition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011-06-17)This paper examines what implications this interconnection between language and law has on the process of legal language instruction and acquisition. How important is the knowledge of legal content for successful acquisition ... -
In a Methodological Trap: Review article of The phonology of Danish, by Hans Basbøll. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
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In-Service Primary School Teachers’ Account of Phonetically Difficult Words in English as a Foreign Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)This article presents and discusses a mixed-method study that seeks to establish a set of words in the English language that in-service primary school teachers consider difficult to pronounce by young learners of English ... -
Incidental Development of Pronunciation Learning Strategies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)The studies devoted to the so-called good language learners that emerged in the 1970s (Rubin 1975) reveal that efficient learners fall back on an abundant and highly individualised array of techniques and strategic behaviours ... -
Inclusion, Contrast and Polysemy in Dictionaries: The Relationship between Theory, Language Use and Lexicographic Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-06-15)This paper explores the lexicographic representation of a type of polysemy that arises when the meaning of one lexical item can either include or contrast with the meaning of another, as in the case of dog/bitch, shoe/boot, ... -
Incomplete Descriptions and the Underdetermination Problem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The purpose of this paper is to discuss two phenomena related to the semantics of definite descriptions: that of incomplete uses of descriptions, and that of the underdetermination of referential uses of descriptions. The ... -
The Influence of Attention to Language Form on the Production of Weak Forms by Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The paper discusses a study whose aim was to examine the impact of attention to language form and task type on the realisation of English function words by Polish learners of English. An additional goal was to investigate ... -
The influence of Latin on Old English adjectival postposition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position of Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies on phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have ... -
The Influence of Level of Proficiency in the L2 and L3 on the Production of the L3 Spanish Apico-alveolar Sibilant
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-03-30)Current Third Language Acquisition research has traditionally focused on the L2 status (e.g. Hammarberg 2001, Bardel & Falk 2007) or linguistic proximity (e.g. Cenoz 2001, Westergaard, Mitrofanova, Mykhaylyk & Rodina 2016). ... -
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 ... -
Inside and Outside the Translation Classroom
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The article provides a glance at the continuing transformation in the profession of translators and its implications on translator training. The profile of the translatorhas never been unified but nowadays, following the ... -
Inter-Relations of Core Language, Pragmatic Language, and Social Competence in Preschoolers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Language skills provide preschoolers with the foundational skills needed to socially interact, but little is known about the relationship between specific language skills and broad constructs of social competence. Sixteen ... -
The Interaction of Yer Deletion and Nasal Assimilation in Optimality Theory1
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)The problem of opacity presents a challenge for generative phonology. This paper examines the process of Nasal Assimilation in Polish rendered opaque by the process of Vowel Deletion in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, ... -
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 ...