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Teachers of English: L1 and L2 Articulation Rate Correspondence
 Friedel, Radim ; Luef, Eva Maria (advisor) ; Bulantová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis focuses on the domain of articulation rate and its comparative variation between Czech and English as a foreign language. Recordings of Czech and English monologues produced by native speakers of Czech (and teachers of English) have been gathered for the purpose of studying further this phenomenon. What adds value to the thesis is not only its educational focus, but also the general underestimation of articulation rate as an important factor in the evaluation of speech. Furthermore, the studied material is a set of brand new and authentic set of recordings which may either prove or question some firmly established beliefs. The primary goal of the thesis is to explore the following hypotheses: articulation rate is higher for the native language of a speaker than for their foreign one, and the variation of this tempo is directly dependent on the position, frequency and function of the given words within the intonation phrase. Both languages are compared with regards to their articulation rate characteristics and speaker variables are considered as clarifications for possible rate discrepancies among the speakers. The theoretical part of the thesis further juxtaposes articulation rate with speech rate and defines the most frequent terms used in these domains: run, pause and intonation...
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