Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F25%3A00014486" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/25:00014486 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167639325000962" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167639325000962</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2025.103281" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.specom.2025.103281</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents
Original language description
This study reports on a comparative perceptual experiment investigating the ability of Russian and Czech advanced learners of English to identify prominence in spoken English. Two groups of non-native annotators completed prominence marking tasks on English monologues, both before and after undergoing a 12-week phonological training program. The study employed three annotation techniques: Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT), traditional (British), and ToBI. While the RPT annotations produced by the focus groups did not reach statistical equivalence with those of native English speakers, the data indicate a significant improvement in the perception and categorization of prominence following phonological training. A recurrent difficulty observed in both groups was the accurate identification of prenuclear prominence. This is attributed to prosodic transfer effects from the participants’ first languages, Russian and Czech. The study highlights that systemic, phonetic, and distributional differences in the realization of prominence between L1 and L2 may hinder accurate perceptual judgments in English. It further posits that Russian and Czech speakers rely on different acoustic cues for prominence marking in their native languages, and that these cue-weighting strategies are transferred to English. Nevertheless, the results demonstrate that targeted phonological instruction can substantially enhance L2 learners’ perceptual sensitivity to English prosody.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10307 - Acoustics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SPEECH COMMUNICATION>
ISSN
0167-6393
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
173
Issue of the periodical within the volume
173
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
103281
UT code for WoS article
001539863100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105011195814