Download or read book Phonological Analysis of English Native Speakers Adaptation of Polish Consonant Clusters written by Marek Radomski (anglistyka) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polish Consonant Clusters in the British Mouth written by Marek Radomski and published by Sounds ¿ Meaning ¿ Communication. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on online adaptation of Polish initial and final CC and CCC clusters by native speakers of British English. It offers an Optimality Theory analysis of a rich body of experimental data. The author provides evidence for the phonological approach to loan adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon.
Download or read book Complexity in Polish Phonotactics written by Paula Orzechowska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived. A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation. This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.
Download or read book Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non native Speakers written by Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
Download or read book Crossing Phonetics Phonology Lines written by Eugeniusz Cyran and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a significant and up-to-date contribution to the debate on the relation between phonetics and phonology, provided by researchers from different countries and representing diversified theoretical positions. The authors of the papers included in this collection analyze selected phenomena situated on the border between phonetics and phonology in various languages, such as English, Italian, Welsh, Polish, German, Southern Saami, Saraiki, and many others, in order to shed more light on the nature of the sound structure of human languages. It is the juxtaposition of different theoretical approaches, including Optimality Theory, Government Phonology, and Laboratory Phonology, coupled with their application to the analysis of specific language data, that makes this book particularly valuable and different from other current publications.
Download or read book Acquisition of Polish Nasal Vowel Syllables by Native English Speakers written by Krystyna Sulima and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few generations of phonologists dealing with Polish have been struggling to find the true nature of the Polish nasal vowel. The strongest earlier claims postulated that Polish has no nasal vowels at all. The newer studies, however, suggest that phonemic nasal vowels are present in Polish phonology. Their behavior has been connected to their status in the syllable. Recently, data from second languages has been used to make conclusions about the phonology of native languages. This paper draws heavily on the works of Czaykowska-Higgins and Bethin with respect to the Polish nasal vowels and Osburne with respect to findings on the L1 throughout the L2. Nevertheless, this work is innovative since L2 Polish has not been studied at all, let alone in order to make conclusions about native Polish. The findings of this study, which compares the Polish of native speakers with the second language speech of native English speakers, confirm the phonemic status of the Polish nasal vowels in the native speech of Polish speakers. A new underlying structure of the Polish nasal vowel is postulated and, based on it, descriptions of the processes involving the Polish nasal vowels are provided. Furthermore, this study provides important insights from the perspective of the second language, and not only into Polish phonology. Most importantly, it allows us to draw conclusions with regard to the syllable structure in Universal Grammar. An unassociated X-position, called an empty slot, is postulated to be present underlyingly in the syllable structure in the mind of native Polish speakers, and perhaps speakers of other languages as well. The structure of this thesis is as follows. Chapter one is preliminary to the empirical study and presents a phonological analysis of the Polish nasal vowels and nasal consonants. This information is used in the discussion of the present state of knowledge of the Polish nasal vowels as established by consecutive phonological schools--Acquisition of Polish nasal vowel syllable by native English speakers 2 structuralism, standard generative phonology, and non-linear syllable-based phonology. The work of many authors who have suggested analyses of the Polish nasal vowels is considered. The presentation gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant issues before an attempt can be made to find the reasons for the differences in pronunciation of the nasal vowels by L1 and L2 Polish speakers; it is important to establish the phonological status of the nasal vowels before considering their pronunciation and representation by different groups of speakers. Chapter two contains the hypothesis followed by the actual empirical study. The tests, methods, and results are all presented. Based on the results of the study, a new analysis of the Polish nasal vowel is proposed involving a new underlying form, and this is applied to the explanation of the facts introduced in Chapter one. Chapter two concludes with a discussion of the results of the study. The importance of the study for both theoretical phonology and inter language phonology is considered.
Download or read book Analysis of Phonological Structures written by Jerzy Rubach and published by Warszawa : Pa ́nstwowe Wydawn, Naukowe. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consonant Change in English Worldwide written by D. Schreier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.
Download or read book The Secret of Sounding Native written by Brigitte K. Gulden and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proclitics have traditionally been considered either as erratic sloppiness of articulation or as morphologically determined weak forms. It could be shown that the reduction typical of the unstressed position preceding a nucleus is highly regular and further-reaching than so far assumed. A multi-dimensional model of phonology analyzes the proclitic position as a subsystem of the phonology of English with its own inventory of distinctive units and its characteristic dynamic processes of reduction.
Download or read book Polish and American English Consonant Phonemes written by Andrzej Kopczyński and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Phonological Analysis of Present day Standard English written by Bohumil Trnka and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation written by Christian Uffmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is commonly assumed that languages epenthesize context-free default vowels, this book shows that in loanword adaptation, several strategies are found which interact intricately. Large loanword corpora in Shona, Sranan, Samoan and Kinyarwanda are analyzed statistically, and the patterns are modeled in a version of Optimality Theory which introduces constraints on autosegmental representations. The focus of this book is on English loans in Shona, providing an in-depth empirical and formal analysis of epenthesis in this language. The analysis of additional languages allows for solid typological generalizations. In addition, a diachronic study of epenthesis in Sranan provides insight into how insertion patterns develop historically. In all languages analyzed, default epenthesis exists alongside vowel harmony and spreading from adjacent consonants. While different languages prefer different strategies, these strategies are subject to the same set of constraints, however. In spreading, feature markedness plays an important role alongside sonority. We suggest universal markedness scales which combine with constraints on autosegmental configurations to model the patterns found in individual languages and at the same time to constrain the range of possible crosslinguistic variation.
Download or read book A Contrastive Analysis of Polish and Japanese Phonemic and Phonetic Systems written by Alfred F. Majewicz and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Phonological Analysis written by Edmund Gussmann and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phonological Investigations written by Jacek Fisiak and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of theoretical approaches, from natural phonology to non-linear phonology, reflects recent developments in Europe and the U.S.
Download or read book Cyclic and Lexical Phonology written by Jerzy Rubach and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perception and Realization of the Phonological Voicing Contrast in English and Chinese Plosive Consonants by Native Speakers of Polish written by Katarzyna Knoll and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
