Native speakers’ acceptability judgements on Polish-accented English

• Authors: Agnieszka Bronisława Bryła-Cruz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents and discusses the results of the empirical study on the perception and evaluation of Polish-accented English by 30 Scottish listeners. The judges were asked to evaluate 30 features typical of Polish accent with respect to their acceptability. The aim of the research was to compile a hierarchy of error and establish whether the raters are more tolerant of certain non-native realizations they themselves produce. The secondary goal was to select priorities for teaching pronunciation to Poles whose target interlocutors are Scottish native speakers. 

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том содержит аннотацию только на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

acceptability, foreign-accent, pronunciation teaching, non-native speech,Polish-accented English

DE

Annehmbarkeit, fremder Akzent, Aussprache Lehren und Lernen, Sprache der Nicht-Muttersprachler, Englisch mit polnischem Akzent

FR

l’acceptabilité, un accent étranger, l’enseignement de la prononciation, un discours non-natif, un accent polonais en anglais

RU

приемлемость, иностранный акцент, обучение произношения, неродная речь, английский с польским акцентом

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2016

online

2016-07-27

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Bronisława Bryła-Cruz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2016.40.1.98