Research in Language: Recent submissions
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English Spelling Among the Top Priorities in Pronunciation Teaching: Polglish Local Versus Global(ised) Errors in the Production and Perception of Words Commonly Mispronounced
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The results of the study confirm the necessity for explicit instruction on the regularity rather than irregularity of English spelling in order to eradicate globalised and ‘either-or’ pronunciation errors in the speech of ... -
Perception of Allophonic Cues to English Word Boundaries by Polish Learners: Approximant Devoicing in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The study investigates the perception of devoicing of English /w, r, j, l/ after /p, t, k/ as a word-boundary cue by Polish listeners. Polish does not devoice sonorants following voiceless stops in word-initial positions. ... -
Perceptual Impact of Speech Melody Hybridization: English and Czech English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)The current paper examines the role of intonation in the perception of foreign-accented speech. In order to assess how difficult it is to mentally process native, non-native and modified speech melodies, four conditions ... -
Pre-Fortis Shortening in Czech English: A Production and Reaction-Time Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This study focuses on the production and perception of English words with a fortis vs. lenis obstruent in the syllable coda. The contrast is mostly cued by the duration of the preceding vowel, which is shorter before fortis ... -
L1 Vowels of Multilinguals: The Applicability of SLM in Multilingualism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)Although L1 has been treated as a rigid system which is more likely to act as a sender than a receiver of CLI in bilinguals and multilinguals, recent studies have provided some evidence of the influence of both L2 and L3 ... -
Spectral Dynamics in L1 and L2 Vowel Perception
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper presents a study of L1 and L2 vowel perception by Polish learners of English. Employing the Silent Center paradigm (e.g. Strange et al. 1983), by which listeners are presented with different portions of a vowel, ... -
The Meaning of “Nasal Grunts” in the Necte Corpus. A Preliminary Perceptual Investigation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-06-24)This paper reports a perceptual evaluation of the meanings conveyed by the acoustic components of “nasal grunts” (Chlebowski and Ballier 2015), i.e., non-lexical conversational sounds realised with a nasal feature (e.g. ... -
The Role of Curriculum Design and Teaching Materials in Pronunciation Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper aims to provide insights into the role of curriculum design and teaching materials in the development of English pronunciation skills in EFL contexts. One of the main contextual factors negatively affecting the ... -
Phonetic Notation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Potential Advantages and Learners’ Views
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper focuses on the use of phonetic notation in foreign language teaching and learning. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, we review some of the potential advantages that the use of phonetic notation seems to ... -
Topic- and Mode-Sensitive Interaction Strategies: Functions of Ellipsis in Oral Communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)In this article, we discuss ellipsis as an interactive strategy by analysing the author’s textchat corpus and the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca. It is found that there were fewer repetitions in the textchat ... -
Phrase Frames in English Pharmaceutical Discourse: A Corpus-Driven Study of Intradisciplinary Register Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Focusing on the exploration of intra-disciplinary register variation in the pharmaceutical domain, this corpus-driven study attempts to describe the use, composition and discourse functions of phrase frames, that is, ... -
Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper examines the vowel system of present day Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) or Kristang, based on recordings from interviews with five female native speakers of MPC. A total of 1083 monophthongs were extracted from ... -
Establishing the Fluency Gap Between Native and Non-Native-Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Although various dimensions of speech fluency have so far generated a great deal of research interest, very few accounts have tackled the issue of the relationship between L1 and L2 fluency. Also, little empirical evidence ... -
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 ... -
Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in ... -
The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm ... -
Pitch Patterns in Vocal Expression of “Happiness” and “Sadness” in the Reading Aloud of Prose on the Basis of Selected Audiobooks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)The primary focus of this paper is to examine the way the emotional categories of “happiness” and “sadness” are expressed vocally in the reading aloud of prose. In particular, the two semantic categories were analysed in ... -
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, ... -
Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-02-04)Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task ... -
Speech Melody Properties in English, Czech and Czech English: Reference and Interference
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-07-10)Two major objectives were set for the present study: to provide reference data for the description of Czech and English F0 contours, and to investigate the limits of the ‘interference hypothesis’ on Czech English data. ...