Assimilation of voicing in Czech speakers of English : The effect of the degree of accentedness

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F14%3A10283247" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/14:10283247 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/26482789:_____/14:#0000518

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rela.2014.12.issue-2/rela-2014-0007/rela-2014-0007.xml" target="_blank" >http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rela.2014.12.issue-2/rela-2014-0007/rela-2014-0007.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2014-0007" target="_blank" >10.2478/rela-2014-0007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assimilation of voicing in Czech speakers of English : The effect of the degree of accentedness

Original language description

Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two languages have different strategies for the assimilation of voicing across the word boundary. The present study investigates the voicing in word-final obstruents in Czech speakers of English with the specific aim of ascertaining whether the degree of the speakers' foreign accent correlates with the way they treat English obstruents in assimilatory contexts. L2 speakers, divided into three groups of varying accentedness, were examined employing categorization and a voicing profile method for establishing the presence/absence of voicing. The results suggest that speakers with a different degree of Czech accent do differ in their realization of voicing in the way predicted by a negative transfer of assimilatory habits from Czech.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-08084S" target="_blank" >GA14-08084S: Cognitive load in processing speech with foreign accent</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Research in Language

ISSN

2083-4616

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

199-208

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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