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Accents of English at Czech schools: Students’ attitudes and recognition skills
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)
The study investigates the attitudes of 254 Czech students towards English as the main language taught at secondary schools. The questionnaire enquired about their perspectives on learning English in general, British and ...
Gendered Neologisms Beyond Social Media: the Current Use of Mansplaining
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-02-09)
The word mansplaining, which is a linguistic blend of man and explaining, is one of the examples of a trend in the English language of creating gendered neologisms – blends and compounds that add an aspect of gender to the ...
Degrees of Propositionality in Construals of Time Quantities1
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-06-15)
The paper investigates the possible conceptual bases of differences between seemingly synonymous and easily definable temporal expressions. Looking at the usage patterns of nominal temporal phrases in reference corpora of ...
Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)
This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and ...
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, ...
Pronunciation acquisition patterns of learners with different starting levels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)
This study described the results of an investigation into the effect of an intensive 12-week pronunciation course in British English which 30 Dutch female 1st-year university students of English took. They read out the ...
Speech Rhythm in Spontaneous and Controlled L2 Speaking Modes: Exploring Differences and Distance Measures
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic ...
Language Proficiency and Sonorant Devoicing in English Plosive-Sonorant Clusters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group. The ...
Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)
This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our ...