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Phonetic features of strong Czech accent in English
Thesis title in Czech: Fonetické rysy silného českého přízvuku v angličtině
Thesis title in English: Phonetic features of strong Czech accent in English
Key words: cizinecký přízvuk|angličtina|čeština|výslovnost|jazykový transfer
English key words: foreign accent|English|Czech|pronunciation|language transfer
Academic year of topic announcement: 2016/2017
Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
Thesis language: angličtina
Department: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Radek Skarnitzl, Ph.D.
Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
Date of registration: 16.05.2017
Date of assignment: 16.05.2017
Administrator's approval: not processed yet
Confirmed by Study dept. on: 30.05.2017
Date and time of defence: 04.09.2018 00:00
Date of electronic submission:07.08.2018
Date of proceeded defence: 04.09.2018
Submitted/finalized: committed by worker on behalf on and finalized
Opponents: Suzanne Lewis, M.A.
 
 
 
Guidelines
- prostudovat relevantní literaturu týkající se cizineckého přízvukuv angličtině se zaměřením na české mluvčí angličtiny, včetně sociálních a psychologických dopadů cizineckého přízvuku
- zpracovat nahrávky čtené řeči od alespoň 10 mluvčích české angličtiny z Pražského fonetického korpusu (manuální segmentace)
- navrhnout typologii rysů české angličtiny na segmentální i prozodické úrovni
- analyzovat výskyt jednotlivých rysů v nahrávkách v závislosti na kontextu
- porovnat obecné i individuální tendence a vyvodit závěry
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Hansen Edwards, J. G. a Zampini, M. L. (2008). Phonology and Second Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (vybrané kapitoly)

Moyer, A. (2013). Foreign Accent: The Phenomenon of Non-Native Speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Poesová, K. a Weingartová, L. (v tisku). Character of vowel reduction in Czech English. In J. Volín a R. Skarnitzl (Eds.), Pronunciation of English by Speakers of Other Languages. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Skarnitzl, R. a Šturm, P. (v tisku). Voicing assimilation in Czech and Slovak speakers of English: Interactions of segmental context, language and strength of foreign accent. Language and Speech.

Šimáčková, Š., Kolářová, K. a Podlipský, V. J. (2014). Tempo and connectedness of Czech-accented English speech. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 5(1), 667-677.

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Šturm, P. a Skarnitzl, R. (2011). The open front vowel /æ/ in the production and perception of Czech students of English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, 1161-1164.

Volín, J. a Johaníková, T. (v tisku). Weak structural words in British and Czech English. In J. Volín a R. Skarnitzl (Eds.), Pronunciation of English by Speakers of Other Languages. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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