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Phonetic imitation of t-glottaling by Czech speakers of English

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Šturm P., Przedlacka J., Rojczyk A.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue 1

142-165

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The paper focuses on the ability of Czech speakers to explicitly imitate native English realizations of the phoneme /t/ as [ʔ] (t-glottaling). In Czech, glottalization occurs as a boundary signal of wordinitial vocalic onsets. We hypothesize that this allows for a better imitative performance in the intervocalic context as compared to non-prevocalic contexts. However, an alternative hypothesis based on language-external facts (frequency in the learners’ English input) predicts the opposite pattern. Our experiment involves 30 participants in a shadowing task. In addition to words with /t/, words with /k/ are examined to establish if speakers can generalize to a phonologically similar category to which they have not been exposed. Speakers adapted their pronunciation after exposure to t-glottaling to some degree. Our hypothesis was confirmed for the shadowing task, while the alternative language-external hypothesis was confirmed for the post-test task, suggesting a different pattern of performance in terms of imitation versus learning.

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Glottal stop – a type of phonation or articulation?

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Osowicka-Kondratowicz M.

Rocznik Slawistyczny

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2018

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issue LXVII

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Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory

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Staroverov P.

Open Linguistics

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 1

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This article presents an argument for the idea that consonants of high sonority are preferred over low-sonority consonants between vowels (Uffmann 2007). The argument is based on a detailed description and analysis of the phonological patterns which ensure that a syllable starts with a consonant in Washo. Washo inserts [j], which is of high sonority, between any two vowels. Word-initially however a glottal stop is inserted. It is argued that the Washo insertion patterns show influence of the sonority requirements, and these patterns are not subject to an analysis in terms of autosegmental spreading. Thus although feature spreading is a useful tool for capturing similarity requirements on neighboring segments, it is not sufficient to account for cases like Washo epenthesis.

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Zwarcie krtaniowe – rodzaj fonacji czy artykulacji?

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Osowicka-Kondratowicz M.

Rocznik Slawistyczny

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2018

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issue 67

39-53

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This paper discusses the definitions of the glottal stop encountered in the literature. The term glottal stop appears in many works in the field of linguistics (or, more precisely, phonetics and phonology), phoniatrics, voice emission and speech therapy. However, this term may be understood in various ways. Generally speaking, in speech therapy, a glottal stop is defined, for example, as: 1. a form of phonation; 2. a type of pseudo articulation. In phonetics the term is referred to as: 1. a form of voicing initiation; 2. a type of articulation; 3. both the type of articulation and the type of phonation. In the light of the definitions quoted in this work, the answer to the question posed in the title of this paper is neither simple nor clear.

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Ráz ve španělštině, italštině a portugalštině českých mluvčích

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Obstová Z., Šturm P., Skarnitzl R., Čermák P., Hricsina J.

Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

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2022

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vol. 104

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issue 2

159-176

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Glottal stops placed before words starting with a vowel are an integral part of the sound patterns of Czech; however, in Romance languages glottal stops are quite rare and linking to the previous word is much more common. In this study, we examine the extent to which more and less experienced Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (51 in total) use glottal stops or linking in their target language, and compare them with native speakers (29 in total). Analyses of word- and also morpheme-initial contexts reveal that the glottal stop is transferred into the learners’ target language word initially but almost never within words. In line with our hypotheses, the more experienced groups are found to use fewer glottal stops than the less experienced speakers, but still considerably more than the native control groups. We also consider the effect of lexical stress, segmental context and semantic status of the respective words on glottalization. Methodological implications for the teaching of Romance languages in the Czech context are also discussed.

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2 Rocznik Slawistyczny

1 Linguistica Pragensia

1 Open Linguistics

1 Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)

2 Osowicka-Kondratowicz M.

2 Šturm P.

1 Hricsina J.

1 Obstová Z.

1 Przedlacka J.

1 Rojczyk A.

1 Skarnitzl R.

1 Staroverov P.

1 Čermák P.

2 2022

2 2018

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Phonetic imitation of t-glottaling by Czech speakers of English

Glottal stop – a type of phonation or articulation?

Washo Onsets and the Revised Sonority Theory

Zwarcie krtaniowe – rodzaj fonacji czy artykulacji?

Ráz ve španělštině, italštině a portugalštině českých mluvčích