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The relationship between the production of word stress and musical abilities in Polish learners of English

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Gralińska-Brawata A., Rybińska P.
Research in Language
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2017
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vol. 15
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issue 3
265-283
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The pilot study presented in this paper is exploratory in nature and aims first to investigate if there exists a relationship between the production of word stress and learners’ musical abilities, and then, to explore the effects of this relationship on teachability of word stress to Polish advanced students of English. The results of the analysis on the auditory recordings were compared with the information provided by the informants in a questionnaire and a performance music test. The obtained data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The results show that the students tend to overgeneralise word stress rules in English rather than transfer the penultimate syllable rule from Polish. In addition, there seems to be a relationship between word stress production and musical ability for the majority of the participants.
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Effects of speech rate, phonetic background and gender on vowel reduction in the speech of nonnative speakers of English

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Brzezicha B., Kul M.
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
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2014
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vol. 50
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issue 4
397-417
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The paper reports the results of a study investigating vowel reduction in the speech of non-native speakers of English. The aim was to unravel the links between reduction and speech rate, phonetic training and gender. We hypothesized that (i) Polish speakers of English reduce vowels; (ii) they speak slower than native speakers; (iii) the higher the rate, the higher the reduction degree; (iv) speakers with phonetic training reduce less than those lacking it; (v) male subjects reduce more than the female ones. In order to realize these aims, an acoustic analysis of vowels was performed on 2 hrs 42 mins of speech produced by 12 Polish speakers of English. The subjects were di-vided into an experimental group consisting of 6 students of English and a control group with 6 speakers who had no phonetic training. The obtained results positively verify that non-native speakers reduce vowels and cast some doubts on whether they speak slower than native speakers. The role of rate and gender could not be established due to statistical and methodological issues. The group with no phonetic training outperformed the group which underwent phonetic training, pointing instead to the role of exposure and perhaps music training in acquiring native-like reduction patterns.
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Do they understand more? Turkish EFL speakers perception of sentence stress in English

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Buczek-Zawiła A.
Linguistics Beyond and Within
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2016
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vol. 2
27-43
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As one of the most prominent elements of intonation sentence stress frequently contributes to the meaning expressed by speakers. It most typically signals details of an utterance information structure, but it also performs a contrastive or emphasizing function, thus expressing focus in the spoken discourse. In English and many other languages its location, while exhibiting certain regularities it additionally determined by extra relevant or relative information. As such, either alone or in combination, it may communicate certain additional shades of meaning that, similarly to the contribution of sentence intonation, may escape the attention of EFL speakers. The paper explores the comprehension sensitivity of Turkish speakers of English when it comes to identifying meaning details contributed by sentence stress. It investigates their awareness as detected through perception of variable sentence stress location. The target group are Turkish advanced speakers of English, with various levels of competence, and only sporadic phonetic training in English for part of them. In a perception-based experiment they were asked to identify the details they perceive. Their results were then compared and analysed, also in relation to what their native language (with a distinction into sentential and focal stress) adds in terms of this module of utterance intonation. Finally, their results were correlated with those achieved by Polish advanced speakers of English as investigated in a similar study conducted earlier. The interpretation of the results reveals that Turkish EFL speakers are more sensitive to the highlighting or contrastive function of sentence stress, achieving overall better result here than when they are to judge its contribution to notion such as politeness or impatience. They are also rather competent at detecting the prominent element in an utterance.
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Minimal pairs? Minimal difficulty! Vowel perception in young learners

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Lipińska D.
Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
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2017
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issue 14/1
125-141
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Most teachers are familiar with the rule “the earlier, the better” and that it is much easier to teach proper pronunciation from the very beginning than to correct fossilized pronunciation errors at later stag-es (e.g. Baker 1996; Nixon and Tomlinson 2005). While young children are able to acquire L2 phonetics by listening to stories, songs etc., teenagers who are about 13 years old are much more conscious learners (Nixon and Tomlinson 2005) and may start learning pronunciation just like they study L2 grammar or vocabulary. Since it is often said that perception precedes production, the aim of this paper is to present some teaching methods aimed at training young learners of English in vowel perception. It also reports the re-sults from classes in which these methods were used, which prove that young teenagers can easily learn to discriminate vowel pairs and thus also improve their listening skills.
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Większość nauczycieli języków obcych jest świadoma zasady “im wcześniej, tym lepiej”. Wiedzą oni też, że znacznie łatwiej jest uczyć prawidłowej wymowy w języku obcym od samego początku, niż poprawiać mocno zakorzenione błędy na późniejszych etapach edukacji (np. Ba-ker 1996; Nixon and Tomlinson 2005). Podczas gdy małe dzieci są w stanie łatwo przyswoić prawidłową wymowę języka drugiego słuchając piosenek, rymowanek czy historyjek, nastolatki w wieku od około 13 roku życia są znacznie bardziej świadomymi uczniami (Nixon and Tomlinson 2005) i mogą zacząć uczyć się fonetyki J2 w taki sam sposób, w jaki uczą się obcej gramatyki czy słownictwa. Ponieważ percepcja dźwięków poprzedza ich produkcję, celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie różnych metod nauczania fonetyki języka obcego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem treningu percepcji głosek. Są to metody przewidziane dla młodszych nastolatków uczących się języka angielskiego. Ich skuteczność jest udowodniona przez badanie przeprowadzone w wyniku takich zajęć. Badanie wykazało, że młodsze nastolatki są w stanie nauczyć się różnic segmentalnych, dobrze rozróżniają samogłoski, a to pomaga usprawnić nie tylko ich wymowę, ale również umiejętność rozumienia ze słuchu.
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