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Phonetic realization of coda /t/ in current Southern British English pronunciation
Thesis title in Czech: Fonetická realizace kodového /t/ v současné jihoanglické výslovnosti
Thesis title in English: Phonetic realization of coda /t/ in current Southern British English pronunciation
Key words: foném /t/|britská angličtina|alofon|kodové /t/|jihoanglická výslovnost|glotalizace|alveolární švih
English key words: phoneme /t/|British English|allophone|coda /t/|Southern British English pronunciation|glottalling|alveolar flap
Academic year of topic announcement: 2020/2021
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: 30.11.2020
Date of assignment: 30.11.2020
Administrator's approval: not processed yet
Confirmed by Study dept. on: 17.12.2020
Date and time of defence: 16.06.2022 10:00
Date of electronic submission:12.05.2022
Date of proceeded defence: 16.06.2022
Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
Opponents: doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil.
 
 
 
Guidelines
- prostudovat relevantní literaturu týkající se exploziv a nejnovějšího vývoje výslovnosti ve standardní britské angličtině
- pořídit a zpracovat nahrávky řeči v politických rozhlasových debatách od alespoň 16 mluvčích
- provést manuální segmentaci cílových kontextů
- provést pečlivou poslechovou analýzu fonetické realizace cílových hlásek
- analyzovat výskyt jednotlivých variant v závislosti na segmentálním, prozodickém a sémantickém kontextu
- porovnat obecné i individuální tendence a vyvodit závěry

Práce bude vypracována v anglickém jazyce.
References
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Cruttenden, A. (2014). Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. Routledge. (selected chapters)
Fabricius, A. (2002). Ongoing change in modern RP: Evidence for the disappearing stigma of t-glottaling. English World-Wide, 23, 115–136.
Gavaldà, N. (2016). Individual variation in allophonic processes of /t/ in Standard Southern British English. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 23, 43–69.
Henton, C., Ladefoged, P., & Maddieson, I. (1992). Stops in the world’s languages. Phonetica, 49, 65–101.
Holmes-Elliott, S. (2020). Calibrate to innovate: Community age vectors and the real time incrementation of language change. Language in Society, 1–34.
Ladefoged, P., & Maddieson, I. (1996). The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Blackwell Publishers.
Lindsey, G. (2019). English after RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today. Palgrave Macmillan.
Schleef, E. (2013). Glottal replacement of /t/ in two British capitals: Effect of word frequency and morphological compositionality. Language Variation and Change, 25, 201–223.
Trudgill, P., & Hannah, J. (2013). International English: A Guide to the Varieties of Standard English. Routledge. (selected chapters)
Warner, N., & Tucker, B. V. (2011). Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 1606–1617.
 
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