Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10307 - Acoustics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

SPEECH COMMUNICATION>

ISSN

0167-6393

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

173

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

173

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

103281

Kód UT WoS článku

001539863100002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105011195814