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This study is devoted to methodological considerations on the optimization of practical exercises in Spanish pronunciation classes for modern languages degree students. Combining years of experience with the newest theoretical approaches in the area of articulatory phonetics of the Spanish language, the author presents a host of useful advice and practical arrangements, based on a thorough analysis of phonetic contrast between Spanish and Polish.
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This paper aims to present research in the area of articulatory phonetics of Polish. First, we discuss briefly instrumental and experimental studies of Polish articulation that had been conducted by the 1970s and then we describe investigations of Polish articulation carried out in the 1990s and in the 21st century. We focus on research completed with the use of electro-magnetic articulography (EMA) and, finally, we discuss selected issues of a larger-scale on-going EMA project of ours aimed at an in-depth analysis of Polish articulation.
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The first part of the paper proposes a method of studying (or, more precisely, of recognizing) oral vowels, using the so-called relative formant frequencies. First, we describe the traditional method of acoustic study of oral vowels, together with its limitations. Next, we introduce the assumptions of the proposed method where, unlike in the traditional approach, a set of mixed models is used. The comparison, instead of being reduced to establishing whether two sets of vowels match, requires a distance to be calculated between each vowel and each model. The paper introduces the notion of relative formant frequency (denoted f') which was used in the comparisons to minimize the impact of individual articulatory variation on the outcome of the analysis. It was de!ned as the proportion between, on the one hand, the difference between the absolute frequency of the given formant, and its minimal value observed in actual pronunciations, and on the other hand, the difference between the minimal and the maximal frequency of the formant, as observed in pronunciations. In order to establish the f' of model vowels, we used the cardinal vowels pronounced by several British phoneticians (including Daniel Jones).
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie badań w dziedzinie fonetyki artykulacyjnej języka polskiego. Najpierw omówiono pokrótce badania instrumentalne i eksperymentalne polskiej artykulacji prowadzone do 1970 roku, a następnie opisano badania przeprowadzone w latach 90. XX wieku i w XXI wieku. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono analizom przeprowadzonym z wykorzystaniem artykulografii elektromagnetycznej (EMA), by na koniec podjąć dyskusję na temat wybranych zagadnień prowadzonych na większą skalę w bieżącym projekcie badawczym poświęconym analizie artykulacji w języku polskim.
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This paper aims to present research in the area of articulatory phonetics of Polish. First, we discuss briefly instrumental and experimental studies of Polish articulation that had been conducted by the 1970s and then we describe investigations of Polish articulation carried out in 1990s and in the 21st century. We focus on research completed with the use of electro-magnetic articulography (EMA) and, finally, we discuss selected issues of a larger-scale on-going EMA project of ours aimed at an in-depth analysis of Polish articulation.
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The second part of the paper consists of a list of relative formant frequencies of model vowels (the method of calculation was discussed in the first part). In this part, a test of the proposed method is designed using several new devices, such as the articulatory difference between vowels (expressed both as an integer and as a percentage), and the percentage distance between the analysed vowels and the particular model. In addition, a few simple statistics such as median, mode and arithmetic mean are used. The test itself consists of recognizing new vowels as pronounced by three different phoneticians. The calculations lead to the conclusion that recognition of vowels carried out with the use of the proposed method produces very accurate results which, most importantly, do not deviate in most instances from the expected values (the difference between the recognized vowel and the vowel described by the speaker did not exceed 40%). In conclusion, this part of the paper describes the advantages and limitations of the proposed method, and suggests possible solutions which may help improve the results in the future.
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