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Accents in Speech Recognition through the Lens of a World Englishes Evaluation Set
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech, creating bias issues for users and providers. The phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present challenges for ASR systems in both ... -
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 ... -
Accommodation of L2 Speech in a Repetition Task: Exploring Paralinguistic Imitation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)Phonetic convergence is the process by which a speaker adapts his/her speech to sound more similar to his/her interlocutor. While most studies analysing this process have been conducted amongst speakers sharing the same ... -
Acculturation Strategy and its Influence on the use of Rhoticity by Polish Adult Immigrants to Wales
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-30)Migration to a foreign country can be a complex process involving the adjustment to a new culture and the acquisition of a second language (L2). Acculturation, the process by which an individual integrates their native ... -
Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress as A Cue to Accent Strength
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-06-26)Due to the clear interference of their mother tongue prosody, many Czech learners produce their English with a conspicuous foreign accent. The goal of the present study is to investigate the acoustic cues that differentiate ... -
Acquiring Epistemic Modal Auxiliaries: The Role of Theory of Mind
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-06-07)This study considers the acquisition of epistemic modal auxiliaries (EMA) in typically developing (TD) and autistic children and the role that Theory of Mind (ToM) plays in this development. Nineteen Dutch-speaking TD ... -
The Act of Fictional Communication in a Hermeneutic Pragmatics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)This paper is concerned with fictional communication, as the act of an author in relation to a reader. Fictional discourse exhibits certain complexities that are not observable in other forms of discourse. For example, the ... -
Actors and Actions in Prenups and Capitulaciones Matrimoniales: A Cross-Cultural Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011-06-17)The investigation of a corpus of American prenuptial agreements and Spanish capitulaciones matrimoniales shows how the popularity of premarital contracts is spreading everywhere. The American and the Spanish documents, ... -
Advocacy and Enactment: Exercitives and Acts of Arguing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)Goodwin and Innocenti (2016) have contended that giving reasons may be a form of enactment, where a claim is supported by the very activity of making the claim. In my view, the kind of interaction that these authors are ... -
Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2010-10-19)This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect ... -
Aiming for Cognitive Equivalence – Mental Models as a Tertium Comparationis for Translation and Empirical Semantics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-06-27)This paper introduces my concept of cognitive equivalence (cf. Mandelblit, 1997), an attempt to reconcile elements of Nida’s dynamic equivalence with recent innovations in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, ... -
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 ... -
Analysis Framework for Translation of Maritime Legal Documents
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011-06-17)Maritime activity around the globe currently generates a great amount of translation work, especially from English into other languages. This paper focuses on the analysis of the translation process in maritime legal and ... -
An Analysis of Certainly and Generally in Late-Modern English English History Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-06-30)This paper analyses the adverbs certainly and generally as stancetaking markers. These adverbial devices are said to show authorial stance and to communicate the author’s commitment or detachment towards the information ... -
An Analysis of Identity Construction in Interactional Narratives by Women with Turner Syndrome
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The study aims to uncover and explore the social identities of women suffering from a genetic disorder called Turner syndrome (TS), and whose main symptoms are a short stature and gonadal dysgenesis. Such a genetically-determined ... -
Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-01-02)This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning ... -
Arab EFL Learners' Acquisition of Modals
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2009-12-23)This paper investigates Arab EFL learners' acquisition of modal verbs. The study used a questionnaire, which comprises two versions, testing students' mastery of modals at the levels of both recognition and production. The ... -
Arab Efl Learners’ Stress of Compound Words
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)Compound words are ubiquitous in English. Stressing compounds is difficult for EFL learners and native speakers, especially when the meaning is not a sum of the constituent parts. This study explores Arab EFL learners’ ... -
Are Translators Really Subservient? Empirical Evidence from Lexical Transfer and Language Prestige in Curaçao
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)This paper examines whether translator subservience is generalisable among translators. Taking professional Curaçaoan Papiamentu translators as a case study built on a much larger work, the research looks at issues of ... -
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, ...