Pre-fortis shortening in Czech English: A production and reaction-time study

Skarnitzl, Radek; Šturm, Pavel

doi:10.1515/rela-2016-0005

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“…In English, the contrast is not achieved through phonetic voicing but uses duration: the vowel will be significantly shorter before voiceless consonants (in dock) than before voiced ones (in dog). Not surprisingly, Skarnitzl and Šturm (2016) found that Czech speakers, who had a relatively strong accent in their English, did not exploit duration to cue this contrast.…”

Section: Consonants In Czech Englishmentioning

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Phonetic aspects of strongly-accented Czech speakers of English

Skarnitzl¹,

Rumlová²

2019

Auc Philologica

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This paper contributes to the study of Czech-accented English by examining multiple pronunciation features, both segmental and prosodic, typically associated with or previously studied in Czech English. We analyzed ten female speakers who had been evaluated as having a strong accent in their English, using auditory and acoustic approaches. In the segmental domain, most of the analyzed speakers used Czech equivalents of the English open vowels /ae ɒ/ and tended to pronounce a velar plosive after a velar nasal. In the domain of connected speech, linking was very rare in our speakers, and their pitch range tended to be very flat. The results underscore the fact that the label "strong Czech accent" may, in different speakers, refer to different constellations of pronunciation features.

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Section: Consonants In Czech Englishmentioning

confidence: 91%

Phonetic aspects of strongly-accented Czech speakers of English

Skarnitzl¹,

Rumlová²

2019

Auc Philologica

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“…Several studies were conducted on the acquisition of English final obstruent contrasts by speakers of Czech, another language without final voicing contrast. The results reported in Fejlová (2013) and in Skarnitzl & Šturm (2016) show that the Czech speakers did not sufficiently exploit duration to cue the identity of the word-final obstruent. The study by Skarnitzl and Šturm (2014) showed that the Czech subjects of their research tended to produce both the fortis and lenis obstruents without any phonetic voicing.…”

Section: Previous Research In Final Obstruent Acquisitionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Phonetic Feature Interpretation in Second Language Phonology: The Acquisition of the Final Obstruent Voicing Contrast

Marković¹

2020

Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies

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Although languages may share certain phonological features, their phonetic realizations can be variable. The classical example is the difference in VOT as the underlying factor of the binary distinction in voicing. In this paper, we examine the voicing contrast of English final obstruents (plosives and fricatives) in the production of native speakers of Serbian. The paper reports the results of a production experiment, in which 14 relatively proficient speakers of English as L2 read eight monosyllabic words (minimal pairs) inside frame sentences. Although both English and Serbian contrast final voiced and voiceless obstruents, the results indicate that L2 speakers in our study have not fully mastered the phonetic realization of word-final voicing in English, but greatly retain the phonetic realization of voicing typical of their L1.

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“…Several specific pronunciation features can be identified as typical of Czech accent in English (Šimáčková and Podlipský 2012). The accent has its typical suprasegmental characteristics (Volín and Skarnitzl 2010), segmental features observable in connected speech (Šimáčková, Kolářová and Podlipský 2014), consonantal features (Skarnitzl and Šturm 2016) as well as vocalic features. Our learners' productions of English vowels, even at the relatively advanced levels of proficiency, continue to betray cross-linguistic influence of the small and relatively symmetrical Czech vocalic system, with vowel length distinctions in five long -short phoneme pairs /iːɪ, ɛːɛ, aːa, oːo, uː -u/.…”

Section: Efl Learners Who Used the English Vowel Trainer In The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Vowel Perception and Transcription Trainer for Learners of English as a Foreign Language

Šimáčková

Podlipský

2019

RiL

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We use the freely available program Praat to create a vowel-training application for learners of English familiar with IPA transcription. The application is easy to operate, allowing users to change the training difficulty, providing the listeners with immediate feedback, and adapting to their performance during a training session. To evaluate the effectiveness of the Trainer, performance of 59 Czech learners during a single training session and across multiple sessions was tracked. Results showed improvement both between sessions and within sessions. In the final training session, vowel identification accuracy showed considerable resistance to gradual addition of increasing levels of noise. Testing the trainer with additional 52 learners showed significantly higher error-rates for low-frequency words and supported the importance of top-down lexical effect in vowel identification.

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Pre-fortis shortening in Czech English: A production and reaction-time study

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Phonetic aspects of strongly-accented Czech speakers of English

Phonetic aspects of strongly-accented Czech speakers of English

Phonetic Feature Interpretation in Second Language Phonology: The Acquisition of the Final Obstruent Voicing Contrast

Vowel Perception and Transcription Trainer for Learners of English as a Foreign Language

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