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Conscious Articulation in Reading Speech in Grammar School Students
Dostálová, Dita Mia ; Vlčková, Jana (advisor) ; Wildová, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with analysing the read speeches of students in the last year of grammar school and their changes after the requirement to focus on correct articulation was raised. The primary goal is to prove the hypothesis that female students commit fewer deviations from the orthoepic norm in their second reading. Ten female students from the same class participated in the research, for whom the Czech language was their native language, in which they had been educated, and they had undergone speech training. They had not been diagnosed with any speech or reading disorder. The research took place in the form of reading the selected text twice; before the second reading, the students were asked to concentrate on their articulation and orthoepic pronunciation. The recordings of their readings were transcribed using standard Czech transcription and analysed to detect pronunciation deviations, which were then sorted into the appropriate categories. Furthermore, the deviations were quantified, and their differential occurrence during the first and second readings was evaluated. It was found that the female students improved in their articulation, but this improvement is not significant according to the paired t-test with a two-tailed alternative. Orthoepic deviations in the assimilation...
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Acoustic properties of monosyllabic words in semi-spontaneous dialogues and read speech
Ondrušková, Lucie ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Machač, Pavel (referee)
This thesis investigates temporal characteristics of monosyllabic words (je, se, že) in semi-spontaneous dialogues and read speech. Our material consisted of two sets of recordings from six speakers (three men and three women). The speakers read a text first, and this reading was followed by a recording of a spontaneous dialogue. We investigated differences of temporal characteristics of monosyllabic words between the two types of speech. In addition, we also examined how these characteristics are affected by different variables, which included: position in a stress group, presence of stress, presence of pause and speaker's personality. It was found that the type of speech had a significant influence on duration ratio of sounds in examined words je, že. Word se remained unaffected by the type of speech and generally appeared as a very stable element. The type of speech also influenced variability in duration - this variability proved to be higher in spontaneous speech. The type of speech did not affect average duration of words je, se, že. Position in the stress group also proved to have a significant effect on duration of words. This effect was mainly caused by words which created isolated stress groups - words in such position had longer duration than words in other positions. For words je, se...
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Acoustic properties of monosyllabic words in semi-spontaneous dialogues and read speech
Ondrušková, Lucie ; Volín, Jan (advisor) ; Machač, Pavel (referee)
This thesis investigates temporal characteristics of monosyllabic words (je, se, že) in semi-spontaneous dialogues and read speech. Our material consisted of two sets of recordings from six speakers (three men and three women). The speakers read a text first, and this reading was followed by a recording of a spontaneous dialogue. We investigated differences of temporal characteristics of monosyllabic words between the two types of speech. In addition, we also examined how these characteristics are affected by different variables, which included: position in a stress group, presence of stress, presence of pause and speaker's personality. It was found that the type of speech had a significant influence on duration ratio of sounds in examined words je, že. Word se remained unaffected by the type of speech and generally appeared as a very stable element. The type of speech also influenced variability in duration - this variability proved to be higher in spontaneous speech. The type of speech did not affect average duration of words je, se, že. Position in the stress group also proved to have a significant effect on duration of words. This effect was mainly caused by words which created isolated stress groups - words in such position had longer duration than words in other positions. For words je, se...
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